Hi Folks,
I read through many threads and see a myriad of problems being reported I didnt quite see my situation so I thought I would post and see if I can explain it throughly enough and get a solution.
Ok, I am doing all my editing and encoding in Vegas 4>DVD-A, it looks really good, I love the look of the program but here is the problem.
I have imported my video and matching ac3 streams into the work area, everything is well. I then create the chapter selection menus and optimize disc tells me that the menu file size is miniscule. The problem happens when I import an audio file to play in the background. I made an audio file using V4 5.1 surround ac3 template and the final file size is a whopping 13 megabytes. i link that background audio to the chapter selection menu screen and click optimize and the menu has exploded into a 2.3 GIG file!!! I then change the format setting to AC-3 Stereo and it goes down to 128.8 meg, much better but still thats 10 times as big as my original file!! I take the audio clip out altogether and it goes back to a .5mb file. These are AC3 files made in Vegas expressly so they wouldnt have to be recompressed (like the techs mentioned) but it still doesnt seem right. Am I doing something wrong or is this simply just a bug in the program what will be ironed out with the first fix (which obviously cant come too soon!)
I read over other threads and saw tech support responses but they just dont seem to either address my issues or answer the question, often it seems like they just give a quick rehash of a couple pages out of the manual (which doesnt explain very much)
Ok, so does anybody have a suggestion? Mucho gracias in advance!
ROCK ON!
I read through many threads and see a myriad of problems being reported I didnt quite see my situation so I thought I would post and see if I can explain it throughly enough and get a solution.
Ok, I am doing all my editing and encoding in Vegas 4>DVD-A, it looks really good, I love the look of the program but here is the problem.
I have imported my video and matching ac3 streams into the work area, everything is well. I then create the chapter selection menus and optimize disc tells me that the menu file size is miniscule. The problem happens when I import an audio file to play in the background. I made an audio file using V4 5.1 surround ac3 template and the final file size is a whopping 13 megabytes. i link that background audio to the chapter selection menu screen and click optimize and the menu has exploded into a 2.3 GIG file!!! I then change the format setting to AC-3 Stereo and it goes down to 128.8 meg, much better but still thats 10 times as big as my original file!! I take the audio clip out altogether and it goes back to a .5mb file. These are AC3 files made in Vegas expressly so they wouldnt have to be recompressed (like the techs mentioned) but it still doesnt seem right. Am I doing something wrong or is this simply just a bug in the program what will be ironed out with the first fix (which obviously cant come too soon!)
I read over other threads and saw tech support responses but they just dont seem to either address my issues or answer the question, often it seems like they just give a quick rehash of a couple pages out of the manual (which doesnt explain very much)
Ok, so does anybody have a suggestion? Mucho gracias in advance!
ROCK ON!