DVD Architect Studio 5.0 - Black Video

dldallaire wrote on 4/16/2015, 2:32 PM

Hi,
New user to the software, and also new user here on the forums.

Trying to burn a DVD (or Blu-Ray), and when I pull my content into 5.0, I get two tracks, one for video and one for audio. I know this is fine.

However, the video preview frames are all black. Audio seems to be fine.

I've tried this with various formats to the same result.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

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PeterDuke wrote on 4/16/2015, 10:34 PM

Where did your video come from?

Only certain forms are permitted for DVD and Blu-ray respectively. Normally, DVDA will transcode any format that is not permitted, but if DVDA can't read it, of course it will be black.

The preferred workflow is to render separate video and audio files from Vegas to a template for DVD or BD, as appropriate, so that DVDA does not have to transcode. I suggest that you try that if you have not already done so.

dldallaire wrote on 4/17/2015, 6:22 PM

Thanks for the reply Pete...

Well, truth be told, it's one I downloaded on a torrent site. Just want to see how it would work. It was an MKV file, and I've tried to convert to various other formats (AVHCD, Mpeg2 etc) but it seems to always work out the same.

DVDA will lay down both the video and separate audio tracks, and when you play it, the audio will play, but both on the timeline preview and just the regular previews, just black video.

Not my system, I have a higher end graphics card (GTX970). I've never really gotten into any video recording stuff, and this was my 1st foray.

I thought Sony Movie Studio Suite would be a good all around program to cover all my bases.

Thanks again for any insight.

ps. don't own Vegas

PeterDuke wrote on 4/18/2015, 6:18 PM

An MKV file has to be converted to a DVD or BD (as the case may be) compatible file. If DVDA won't do it then try Movie Studio or any number of utilities that transcode video.