Architect 2.0 truncates my movie?!?

Pipeline wrote on 4/4/2005, 9:26 AM

Hi.

Rendered MPG and WAV from Vegas Studio 4.0. I can view the MPG and verify that my full-movie is all there.

In DVD Architect 2.0, when I "Prepare" my DVD for burning, it generates the AUDIO_TS and VIDEO_TS folders and the VOB files inside.

When I view the VOB files, my movie loses the last 15 seconds of footage.

Is this happening to anyone else? Are there other programs that can render VOBs from mpg and wav?

Thanks.

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ScottW wrote on 4/4/2005, 9:47 AM

How are you viewing the VOB files?

VOB files are not allowed to exceed 1GB in size, so what happens is the MPG file, if larger than 1GB, gets split across multiple VOB's. Is it possible that your missing 15 seconds is actually in the next VOB?

Yes, there are a number of other authoring programs available.

--Scott

Pipeline wrote on 4/4/2005, 11:07 AM

I am using PowerDVD (view DVD files on HD) to view my VOBs. You tell PowerDVD where the VIDEO_TS folder is, and it starts playing the VOBs.

When played-back this way, the last 15 seconds of my movie get cut-off.

If I manually load my VTS_01_3.VOB file (the last one in the folder), the last 15 seconds are there.

So, now I know my whole film is in the VOB files, but it won't all playback during a VOB preview.

I'll try burning and see what result I get: either the whole movie gets burnt (in which case the preview functions are inaccurate)

or

my movie gets truncated (in which case, there's something telling the players to stop playing the last VOB file 15 seconds early)

Thanks.

ScottW wrote on 4/4/2005, 11:23 AM

You may want to check and make sure you've downloaded the latest build of the version of DVDA you are using. I can't recall anyone reporting this type of problem before, but....

I'd be much more likely to suspect you accidentally set an out point.

Anyway, there are a number of DVD Authoring programs available - it really depends on what price you want to pay vs. what features you need.

DVD Lab, DVD Lab Pro, Encore, MyDVD just to name a few.

Kanst wrote on 4/5/2005, 2:25 AM

Pipeline
May be it's a problem of PowerDVD?
Using NeroShowTime or UleadDVDPlayer I hasn't any problems.
Windiws Media Player 9 has 'em.

ScottW
You forgot 'bout No1 DVDAutoring tool - SonicScenarist