Adding audio and video

Michelle75 wrote on 1/31/2006, 8:51 PM
Hi. I just purchased Vegas Movie Studio after a friend made me a DVD for my mom for Christmas. The pages faded in and out the music played we cried.. Well I have added all my pictures I have 2 songs plus a recording of the fountains in Vegas (this is going to be our trip to Vegas DVD) I wanted to add the recording to the very end to close out the movie. I can't get but more than one song to play I have tried adding it to the play list after the 1st song but it replaces the 1st one instead. It says it can hold up to 8 songs but only in the full version of dvd architect software. I went through it step by step and still can't figure it out. Where I recorded the fountains it will play the music but won't show the actual recording.If you can help me at all I would appreciate it ...

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jrazz wrote on 1/31/2006, 9:03 PM
I hope I am not missing what you are trying to do, but here it goes. You should be putting together your material in Vegas and not DVDA. This is the Vegas forum, not the Vegas movie studio forum, but I would assume that there is not a limit on songs.
If you are putting your material together in DVDA, more than likely, you are creating menus and menus are limited to 1 gig in space.

Open Vegas and put your material together on the timeline. Render using the Mpeg2 setting, select DVDA NTSC Video template (assuming you are in the US- if not substitute PAL for NTSC). This will render all of your stills and video into a "video" that can be imported into DVDA. After that finishes, render your audio to PCM as I don't think that DVDA movie studio will let you render as AC3 audio- make sure it has the same name as the video that you just rendered and make sure you save it in the same folder.
Now, open up DVDA and drag your presentation to the main window (blue square). Drag it from the explorer window after you navigate to the folder where you saved it. Now, just choose a picture for the background and select a short audio selection for your menu background music and voila! You have a dvd.
Hope this helps,

j razz
Chienworks wrote on 2/1/2006, 4:33 AM
j razz is quite correct in the method he describes. While it is true that DVD Architect Studio does have a picture compilation function it is very limited. It only allows one single audio file and doesn't allow image transitions. If you want to do anything more complex than a simple slideshow with a single song* then you must use Vegas to assemble it.

*Actually "single song" isn't quite correct. If you wanted to create a single audio file with multiple songs in it using some sort of audio editor (Vegas can do this) then you could use that single file with multiple songs in DVD Architect's picture compilation. DVDA would see it as a single file and wouldn't care that it contained more than one song.