• DVD Architect

  3 answers, most recent on 9/14/2006

  RE: How to tell how much room is left
  It tells you at the bottom right of the screen. Now for the bad news: It's almost always wrong. DVD Architect is not very good at estimating the eventual size of your DVD project. I can't recall if the technical reasons have ever been explained
• DVD Architect

  15 answers, most recent on 9/23/2006

  RE: All Quiet on the DVDA Front
  I just had a look through the new features list at the top of this forum, which covers more ground than the DVDA product page. 1) It does say "Application scripting" -- is this a misnomer, since it's my understanding that the "scripting" in DVDA
• DVD Architect

  No answers, created on 9/12/2006

  [Closed] What’s New in DVD Architect 4.0
  What’s New in DVD Architect 4.0 Application scripting. Generate slideshow animation for picture compilations. Button Order dialog to help you easily edit button order for menus and video. Order DVD Titles dialog to help you fine-tune layer
• Vegas Movie Studio (up to ver. 17)

  No answers, created on 8/6/2006

  Render not completing + size
  Casual user but have had stuff work in past. Recently did a 12-min project that I then trf'd to DVD Architect. Now trying a new 5-min one for my hard drive for a web upload but two issues: 1. It completed but was 207MB vs the 18MB estimate for a
• DVD Architect

  3 answers, most recent on 7/28/2006

  Temp File Folder
  I am new to DVDA 2 and am trying to burn a DVD. At the "Prepare DVD" stage I get the message "There is not enough room in the temporary files folder for preparing the DVD". I have done a thorough search of the drives in my computer and cannot find
• DVD Architect

  5 answers, most recent on 7/25/2006

  RE: DVD Project File Size
  I agree with John that the estimates DVDA makes are questionable - but, as you are rendering to an MPEG with audio and video, they may be accurate in your case. The real question is are you using DVDA or DVDAS? In either case, the software is
• Vegas Movie Studio (up to ver. 17)

  24 answers, most recent on 8/5/2006

  Rendering and too much too fit on DVD
  Hi Still on bottom rung of learning ladder so all advise welcomed! I am trying to edit and transfer a 2hr 20min miniDV video of a cancer fund raising drama sketch show event to DVD. I've edited it down to about 2hrs 7mins, inclusive of scroling
• Scripting

  3 answers, most recent on 6/23/2006

  RE: Two line Subtitles from Vegas to DVDA
  I recently experienced the same thing after importing a subtitle file exported from Vegas using SubText (542 subtitles). For some reason, the carriage returns SubText inserted was not being recognized. I thought it was possibly a bug in SubText,
• DVD Architect

  3 answers, most recent on 4/30/2006

  Burning a DVD-DL
  Please help; I finish my project and I try to burn using a burner Sony DVD-RW DL with a DVD+R DL because the project is around 8GB but it says it doesn't fit. I have architect studio 2.0 and in options/preferences/burning, the drop list in space
• Video

  17 answers, most recent on 3/31/2006

  RE: 8mm Video 8 capture and using AVISynth help
  Before you do everything, make sure you create a test DVD and look at the results on a big TV screen. Sometimes you see things there you don't see on a small monitor. As for performance, I spent all my time on quality and none on performance. There
• DVD Architect

  7 answers, most recent on 3/20/2006

  optimizing bitrate: what's effected?
  ~i had a project ready to burn and the estimated project size was 123% of the available 4.7G disc (120 min. project/ 60 min disc). so i clicked optimize and pulled the bit-rate slider back until it was under 100%. DVD burned fine, fits disc, looks
• Vegas Movie Studio (up to ver. 17)

  10 answers, most recent on 4/2/2006

  RE: 2 Hour Project
  there is another thread going on this in the DVDA forum called "render twice?" and there is a link there for an online bit-rate calculator. <<Has anyone been able to put a movie of this length onto a DVD effectively?>> you probably
• DVD Architect

  2 answers, most recent on 3/27/2006

  RE: DVDA Studio vs. Nero Recode
  So why is DVDAS adding at least a gig to every file is analizes? It doesn't. It only thinks the file is larger than it is. DVD Architect does a very poor job of estimating project sizes. As long as your file is DVD complant and well below the
• DVD Architect

  2 answers, most recent on 2/22/2006

  'extra' file too large?
  I have a DVD Architect 3.0 project with a .mpeg and an .ac3 file. The 'estimated project size' is 2,383.4 MB (51% of a 4.700 GB media). When I add an 'Extra' folder containing a WMV HD file and 'prepare'" the project, I get a message "One or more
• Vegas Movie Studio (up to ver. 17)

  9 answers, most recent on 2/21/2006

  RE: make movie render settings
  In DVDA Studio 3.0 (comes with VMS 6.0): Make DVD >> Prepare >> Next >> Optimize >> In the "Optmimize DVD" window, the "Fit to Disc" button is in the lower left corner. Just above it is a slider that you can use to select
• DVD Architect

  19 answers, most recent on 1/2/2006

  RE: Size of Menu DVD Unexpectedly High
  How were the MPEG files created? Did you use one of the DVD Arch templates in Vegas, or one of the other templates? If you use a DVD Arch template, the MPEG's should not need to be re-encoded (well, except the menu video will almost always be
• DVD Architect

  6 answers, most recent on 1/7/2006

  Project Size Estimates are WAY OFF!
  I am finding some strange things with the project size estimation in DVDA3C. Tonight I've spent hours trying to get four 1.1 GB files to fit on a regular sized DVD. I know that should be a tight fit, but when I add the files one by one to my project
• Video

  8 answers, most recent on 12/13/2005

  RE: A weird problem, any ideas?
  I can't believe how often this comes up, and we all come up with the same recommendations. I believe that you will find the answer has to do with how you created your DVD. Normally, if you reference the same media from more than one place in your
• Video

  6 answers, most recent on 12/5/2005

  RE: Film Grain Reduction
  I just spent the past three days doing all the things Bob mentions on 56 reels of Super8 film. Most of the work was CC and also color curves. The film had been transferred by a commercial outfit using the Workprinter. Pulldown had already been
• Video

  8 answers, most recent on 11/23/2005

  A Videographer Phishing for Info?
  Hi everyone... while cleaning out my e-mails, I came across this one. I remember thinking at the time that this was an e-mail from a videographer who was phishing for some information. It just didn't feel right. Of course, I suggested he call me
• DVD Architect

  6 answers, most recent on 11/2/2005

  RE: DVDA estimate problems
  This sure seems to come up a lot. If anyone at Sony still reads these posts, you REALLY need to create a FAQ that answers these Frequently Asked Questions (wow, what a concept). You also might consider modifying your products so not so many people
• DVD Architect

  6 answers, most recent on 11/2/2005

  DVDA estimate problems
  I used Movie studio to render a video, I rendered it as a MPEG-2 DVD architect widscreen format. the size of the video itself was 4.4 gigs. As usual I had to render the audio seperately as an AC3, which was about 300 MB. When I imported them
• DVD Architect

  One answer, on 10/28/2005

  Make DVD Dialog Box (Prepare)
  OK, I'm a newbie. That being said, I've read postings on my problem, read the documentation, but can't figure out how to work through my problem. In DVDA, I'm trying to do a Prepare of an mpeg2 video (same thing happens with an .avi) before
• DVD Architect

  4 answers, most recent on 10/27/2005

  error the estimated total size of all menus
  I getting a error stating the estimated size of all menus is greater than the maximum of 1 GB! I can not locate the info to correct this! I'm getting this error while trying to burn a DVD! Help!