Basis Questions

OldTimer wrote on 7/13/2003, 9:17 PM
I have only just gotten around to looking at Architect & have a few very basic questions. From what I have seen I get the impression that you would have to import your video file into Architect after you have rendered it in Vegas as a AVI file. This would have to be as one file unless you wished to have additional files which were controlled by an additional set of navigational buttons.

Once in Architect you add your markers & buttons as to where each chapter starts. Can you put a picture slide show on the same disk or can you only have one sort of project a disk? I had thought of making a disk with the video for a holiday followed with the option of having a slide show of the stills that were taken on the same trip. Is this possible?

As you add the details for the markers, buttons etc. this is saved in a small file similar to the VEG files in Vegas. Once you have done this I'm a little unclear as to just what's happening. I know that the program creates the MPEG2 file which is created for burning to disk. Will the resulting file be burnt using Architect itself or do you have the option of using Nero etc. for doing this? Could this file once complete be transfer to another PC for burning? If you had brought your files into Architect as already rendered MPEG2 files would these files be rerendered?

With Architect can you add a second audio track? I was thinking along the lines of giving the option of playing the video with or without narration.

Comments

PeterWright wrote on 7/14/2003, 4:10 AM
Lots of questions for a Sandgroper! ;)

I'll try and answer a few ...

You can either make an MPEG2 in Vegas or import an avi or many other formats straight into DVDA it will convert where necessary. Doing it this way can be better if you're not sure how much you can fit into one DVD - DVDA enables you to vary the bitrate to "squeeze" more in at a reduced quality.

In Vegas, there's an excellent opportunity to insert Markers and give them a name - these will automatically become Chapters in DVDA, complete with the name you gave (Which you can change in DVDA if you want). Chapters can also be added in DVDA by double clicking a clip and inserting.

Regarding burning, you can either burn in DVDA or just complete the Make DVD part of the process - this will create the two folders (AUDIO_TS and VIDEO_TS)
which can be burnt to DVD using any other software. (The Audio TS folder is empty - don't ask why, but that's the way it is!)

As to whether DVDA re-renders, it depends on whether the file is compliant - using the default PAL settings in Vegas helps ....

Currently DVDA only allows one audio track. If there's room on the disk, you can have two versions of the same clip, one with, one without commentary.

Hope this helps a bit

peter