Burning DVD from timeline

pete-schaefers wrote on 6/15/2010, 5:46 PM

Does anyone have access to complete documentation of this feature?

I had just over an an hour of video on the timeline and thought this would be a good way to make a ref dub for the client, but it said it wouldn't fit and that I should change the render settings. Where!? The 4 choices (wide & narrow, PAL & NTSC) don't seem to point me to a profile to edit (nor do I wan to modify one I already have anyway). Where does it get its setting!?

Instead I shortened the content just enough to make it fit... and it politely rendered a lead-in and lead-out with NO content, since (apparently) it was set to "render loop only", and I had no loop marked. Where does it get this info? There is not place to set it in the burn to DVD dialog box.

So I marked a loop, and it rendered for 2 hours, then burnt the DVD, and when I tried to repeat it, it wanted to render AGAIN! How stupid! The video and audio files where still there, AND the DVD image had been there (but was removed after the first copy made). Pretty inefficient...

Seems like it's pulling its instructions from somewhere, but where!?

Thanks...

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john_dennis wrote on 6/15/2010, 11:25 PM

Burning Blu-ray for the timeline gives you access to templates that you alter yourself. I see no evidence that burning DVD from the timeline does the same. It appears to present the canned DVD templates for video and audio. I don't know if these is a switch in Options to change that behavior. The Vegas Pro 9.0 Manual from the website is the only documentation that's generally available.
Again, burning Blu-ray for the timeline gives you the option to burn an image so you could make more copies without rendering again. The DVD option appears not to be well developed unless there is a magic switch somewhere.

Grazie wrote on 6/16/2010, 1:12 AM

This is the exact same question I asked in the last Webinar:

Q: Will we soon be able to apply our own DVD template to the direct DVD option burn?

A: This feature is not available at this time. Although we have not made any official announcement concerning the addition of this feature, we have logged it as a feature request.

So there you have it!

Grazie

http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/news/vp9-webinar2-qa.asp#faq.ques409

Christian de Godzinsky wrote on 6/16/2010, 3:42 AM

Hi,

Have not had time to test it myself, but do you happen know if it is possible to burn dual layer (9GB) DVD's from the timeline?

If yes - how do you control the transfer point were the laser changes layers?

Cheers,

Christian

john_dennis wrote on 6/16/2010, 7:57 AM

You can.

You can't.

pete-schaefers wrote on 6/16/2010, 3:01 PM

Please note this!

When attempting to burn something from the timeline that is larger than the disk, you will get an error message that says "try changing the render settings". So, based on that, there MUST be some place to adjust them.

I do know that it takes into account the current setting for "render loop only". (Problem is that can't be changed w/o doing a rendering job, since it appears to remember its last used setting-just opening the dialog and unchecking it then closing, doesn't do it.)

Can anyone else confirm these two behaviors?

If this isn't resolved here I'll use this thread when I open a tech support issue...

Geoff_Wood wrote on 6/16/2010, 8:30 PM

After DVD burning from timeline having been requested as a basic missing feature for several previous versions of Vegas, we finally have it. But it is VERY basic.

Hopefully the next update or version will have somethng a little more comprehensive, like (ACCESSiBLE) render settings, image writing/saving, chpaters, layer switch point definition....

geoff