Folks -
I have burned most of my weekend trying to get a Laserdisc I had of Dire Straits (On The Night - 1993) converted to DVD. I captured the video/audio by plugging my Laserdisc player (Pioneer Elite) into my Sony TRV-33 video camera, and capturing in Vegas using the firewire capture. So far so good.
I trimmed off the lead in, laserdisc screens (flipping heads, etc.), and got the video where I liked it.
I then inserted markers for where each of the songs started, and labeled them. Finally I rendered the footage to Mpeg2 and AC3 (stereo) streams.
I started a new project in DVDA and selected a theme. I dragged the video into the main screen, and got a menu icon. I called it 'Play Movie'. Then I inserted a Scene Selection Menu. It created the necessary number of scene selection screens (3 in this case), I did a bit of tweaking of the layout of each screen, and then used the DVDA preview function to check my work.
It looks fine in DVDA !
The play movie function does just that.
If I use the scene selection menus, they jump to the appropriate song. Life is good (so far).
I then select Make DVD and do a prepare and burn. This takes a little over an hour (I'm using DVD-RW as media - I have learned my lesson making DVD coasters in the past). So I kill an almost 90 minutes letting it burn.
I take the finished product to my Pioneer 563A to see how it came out.
The menu comes up, and I select Play Movie (the first icon) - the DVD goes into STOP mode. Hmmm.
I hit MENU on the DVD renote and get the main menu back. Okay - now I try SCENE SELECTION. The appropriate menus come up.
If I select the first scene from the first scene selection menu (content should be the setting up of the concert), the player again goes into STOP mode.
I hit menu on the remote again, and go into the scene selection menu. This time I select the second scene (content is the start of the first actual song - Calling Elvis) - this appears to work!
I repeat the procedure for the 3rd scene - Walk of Life - and this appears to work. Yay - maybe we're getting somewhere.
Then I select 4th scene - it works as well - the beginning of Heavy Fuel.
Now things go to hell. Whn I select the 5th scene (should be Romeo and Juliet), I get the concert setup footage (which should have been scene 1)! Other subsequent scene selections also end up other places, including some of the earlier songs.
At this point I have diddled with things and done 4 separate burns (thanks to experience, using RW media). All have been similarly hosed.
I don't get it - the preview works fine in DVDA - is this a bug (God - I hope not!), or am I just screwed up procedurally.
If some kind soul could help me understand how to take a video/audio render with embedded markers and turn it into a simple DVD with options for:
a) Play movie from start
b) Select any song
I would be VERY greatful. My patience is running out on what I thought would be a simple project.
HELP!
Pete Lyall
I have burned most of my weekend trying to get a Laserdisc I had of Dire Straits (On The Night - 1993) converted to DVD. I captured the video/audio by plugging my Laserdisc player (Pioneer Elite) into my Sony TRV-33 video camera, and capturing in Vegas using the firewire capture. So far so good.
I trimmed off the lead in, laserdisc screens (flipping heads, etc.), and got the video where I liked it.
I then inserted markers for where each of the songs started, and labeled them. Finally I rendered the footage to Mpeg2 and AC3 (stereo) streams.
I started a new project in DVDA and selected a theme. I dragged the video into the main screen, and got a menu icon. I called it 'Play Movie'. Then I inserted a Scene Selection Menu. It created the necessary number of scene selection screens (3 in this case), I did a bit of tweaking of the layout of each screen, and then used the DVDA preview function to check my work.
It looks fine in DVDA !
The play movie function does just that.
If I use the scene selection menus, they jump to the appropriate song. Life is good (so far).
I then select Make DVD and do a prepare and burn. This takes a little over an hour (I'm using DVD-RW as media - I have learned my lesson making DVD coasters in the past). So I kill an almost 90 minutes letting it burn.
I take the finished product to my Pioneer 563A to see how it came out.
The menu comes up, and I select Play Movie (the first icon) - the DVD goes into STOP mode. Hmmm.
I hit MENU on the DVD renote and get the main menu back. Okay - now I try SCENE SELECTION. The appropriate menus come up.
If I select the first scene from the first scene selection menu (content should be the setting up of the concert), the player again goes into STOP mode.
I hit menu on the remote again, and go into the scene selection menu. This time I select the second scene (content is the start of the first actual song - Calling Elvis) - this appears to work!
I repeat the procedure for the 3rd scene - Walk of Life - and this appears to work. Yay - maybe we're getting somewhere.
Then I select 4th scene - it works as well - the beginning of Heavy Fuel.
Now things go to hell. Whn I select the 5th scene (should be Romeo and Juliet), I get the concert setup footage (which should have been scene 1)! Other subsequent scene selections also end up other places, including some of the earlier songs.
At this point I have diddled with things and done 4 separate burns (thanks to experience, using RW media). All have been similarly hosed.
I don't get it - the preview works fine in DVDA - is this a bug (God - I hope not!), or am I just screwed up procedurally.
If some kind soul could help me understand how to take a video/audio render with embedded markers and turn it into a simple DVD with options for:
a) Play movie from start
b) Select any song
I would be VERY greatful. My patience is running out on what I thought would be a simple project.
HELP!
Pete Lyall