• DVD Architect

  27 answers, most recent on 6/8/2004

  RE: DVDA 2 Update?
  I have to add that a 4 gig project is registering at 5 gig or 106% of my DVDR. This is unacceptable and the software is not a professional product. I just rendered out of Cinema Craft encoder SP from my Avid project. This time I selected very high
• DVD Architect

  5 answers, most recent on 6/5/2004

  RE: DVDA-2 AC3 How to stop AC3 Recompress
  Hi, I do sometimes wish that DVDA-2 would allow the user more control over the final encoding process. Mpeg-Layer 2 audio is a valid DVD spec outside of North American and I really don't understand why DVDA-2 must convert it to AC-3. It would
• DVD Architect

  8 answers, most recent on 12/8/2004

  RE: DVDA-2 Newbie impressions
  I agreed that DVDA-2 is much improved over version 1. As current state, it is a "ok" authoring software, but not as "great". The main selling point of DVDA-2 is its tight intergration with Vegas (ever wonder why Sony bundled DVDA-2 with Vegas,
• Video

  9 answers, most recent on 6/1/2004

  RE: 2 Hr Video = 6GB MPEG2 using VV5
  I was just trying to create a script that would do this, but apparently I cannot set the bitrate via script. Sony, a LOT of people want to render in Vegas (which Sony and other people recommend as the preferred workflow, especially since there are
• DVD Architect

  3 answers, most recent on 6/1/2004

  RE: DVD Architect 2
  I have not used the fit to disk feature, so someone else will have to comment on whether it works or not. However, in general, as noted by many, many people, the size estimates in DVD Architect 2.0 are very poorly done, and general off by at least
• DVD Architect

  7 answers, most recent on 5/30/2004

  RE: DVD-A v 1.0 to 2.0 wanting to recompress
  Don't burn the DVD, but at least go ahead and prepare the project. Then, select all the files in the VIDEO_TS directory that DVDA 2.0 prepares and see what the total size is. The estimates are often incorrect, although usually not by a factor of 2:1.
• DVD Architect

  27 answers, most recent on 6/8/2004

  RE: DVDA 2 Update?
  That "size estimate is difficult to remedy" is the kind of thing you get from an engineer when he/she doesn't want to fix the problem. I am sure it is not trivial, but I am equally sure (I have an engineering degree) that better estimates would
• DVD Architect

  7 answers, most recent on 5/26/2004

  RE: Slideshow from 10 JPGs - Smaller if created as "Music Compilation"
  I wonder if there would be a rendering problem if the erroneous "forecasted" size of a project exceeded the DVD capacity, even when in reality it might actually fit. No, don't worry. DVDA's estimates are simply brain-dead. The numbers have
• DVD Architect

  7 answers, most recent on 5/26/2004

  RE: Slideshow from 10 JPGs - Smaller if created as "Music Compilation"
  Picture compilation: 10 * 5 seconds * 8 Mbps = 50 MB. When you account for the audio, that's why the picture compilation is 52.4 MB. MPEG2 is rendered in Vegas: If you used the "DVD Architect NTSC video stream" template to render the MPEG2 file,
• DVD Architect

  27 answers, most recent on 6/8/2004

  DVDA 2 Update?
  I'm hoping someone at the company can give an idea on when an initial bug fix update to DVDA 2 might be released, I've been using and liking it but there are a few really obnoxious things (like its inability to estimate the DVD size correctly) that
• DVD Architect

  9 answers, most recent on 5/25/2004

  RE: STILL can't burn DVD w/DVDA2
  Hi, I never burn DVD using DVDA (1 or 2) so can't comment on this. But the best way for me is to output the final DVD to hard-drive first, then I can use PowerDVD/WinDVD to check to make sure menus... are OK; or use DVDShrink to make it to fit
• DVD Architect

  10 answers, most recent on 5/24/2004

  RE: Worked example of wrong estimated size
  I agreed ! Vegas is an excellent program - very robust and full of features. Mean while, DVDA (1 & now 2) seem like just a quick and dirty add-on for Vegas. There are still many BIG BUGS and lack of need features in version 2. Some of the bugs
• DVD Architect

  10 answers, most recent on 5/24/2004

  RE: Worked example of wrong estimated size
  I agreed ! Vegas is an excellent program - very robust and full of features. Mean while, DVDA (1 & now 2) seem like just a quick and dirty add-on for Vegas. There are still many BIG BUGS and lack of need features in version 2. Some of the
• DVD Architect

  10 answers, most recent on 5/24/2004

  RE: Worked example of wrong estimated size
  John, you're right, if it's out by 10% then that IS significant, I thought the issue was only a 1% error. You're right about DVDA doing some wierd things. If I run two instances of DVDA things get very odd. Everytime one instance looses focus it
• DVD Architect

  10 answers, most recent on 5/24/2004

  RE: Worked example of wrong estimated size
  Could I ask why the obsession with getting the DVD 99.99% full? Yes, I can tell you why. I once again, yesterday, built three different DVDs where DVD Architect 2.0's HORRIBLE estimates really hurt. I transferred portions of twelve different
• DVD Architect

  10 answers, most recent on 5/24/2004

  Worked example of wrong estimated size
  There has been some discussion about the rendered size being wildly off, so here's an example using DVDA1. I've had the same problem with all of the patches of DVDA1 and I suspect the same problem is in DVDA2 based on what I've heard. This is also
• DVD Architect

  15 answers, most recent on 5/14/2004

  RE: DVDA: Pathetic estimates
  I am burning my first "complicated" DVD with the new version. It is a first play, Main menu, which contains links to two movies and two subs menus. Each of the submenus has several text type buttons, each linked to individual movies. All the
• DVD Architect

  15 answers, most recent on 5/14/2004

  RE: DVDA: Pathetic estimates
  1. You're assuming all the data in an MPEG file is burned to DVD. However, for instance, an MPEG file contains system layer data which is discarded and the size of which is unknown. Also, the average bitrate of a video stream in an MPEG file is
• DVD Architect

  15 answers, most recent on 5/14/2004

  RE: DVDA: Pathetic estimates
  1. I am baffled as to why it is difficult to estimate, in advance, how much disk space will be required for a given project. The MPEG and AC3 files, if they already exist, are known sizes. The output of any files that must be encoded can be known
• DVD Architect

  15 answers, most recent on 5/14/2004

  DVDA: Pathetic estimates
  DVD Architect 2.0 is a huge improvement over version 1.0c. In fact, it is a very good product, and not just when compared to the awful, first release. However, it still has several ridiculous rough edges that absolutely MUST be fixed in a 2.x
• Video

  20 answers, most recent on 4/27/2004

  RE: Does anyone know the life expectancy of Ritek G04's?
  1. I have found no reliable third-party accelerated aging tests for DVDs. Absent that, most of what you are going to find on the subject is speculation (including some of what I'm going to say below). 2. Heat, sunlight, and scratching will
• Video

  13 answers, most recent on 4/4/2004

  RE: constant VS variable BIT RATE (bps)
  Jsnkc: You might be right, I don't know much about the MainConcept encoder. I would have assumed, however, that ANY MPEG2 encoder would show improvement in quality in VBR --if-- there was more than 60 minute's worth of material i.e. the average
• DVD Architect

  5 answers, most recent on 3/22/2004

  RE: is not enough space the temporaly files
  I have seen this also. Creating folder in C drive using files from F drive. DVD architect says not enough room in folder. My C drive had 7GB free at the time! How much space is needed? To answer my own question, I switched to the F drive which had
• DVD Architect

  6 answers, most recent on 3/18/2004

  Q about DVDA + Rendering Times
  I'm a DVD-Architect newbie, tho I've been using Acid and Vegas for years for simple tasks like adding titles/logos and editing together internal educational lectures to VCD and streaming files. I put together a DVD of three 1-hour segments of