DVDA 4.5 menu problem

tcbetka wrote on 9/12/2008, 6:25 PM
Hello folks, new user and new to the forum...

I have searched several pages of the forum but didn't see an answer to my question, so I will start a new thread in hopes that someone can help with this issue.

In learning DVDA, I have found a few tutorial videos on YouTube, and they have been helpful. I was able to create a DVD menu tonight using the "Single Movie" option. I then added my media (single video & audio tracks), and then right-clicked on the media in the left pane, and selected "Insert Scene Selection Menu." Since I had left chapter markers in my video from Vega, I got three links. But the problem was two-fold:

1) I did not get a menu page when I named the page and selected the correct number of desired links--when I select that line in the pane, the video media still shows in the preview window. In the tutorial on YT, the menu page appeared--and in fact when I tried it earlier today, that's what happened. But the media plays perfectly in the Preview screen...I just don't get a menu page.

2) In conjunction with #1, the "Themes" that had been available when I initially started the application disappeared! They are gone. Earlier today I was able to select a new theme and it reset correctly.

Note, the attempt I made earlier today was of the same video media, but I had neglected to go into the "Custom" section in the Vegas Render window, and select "Include audio stream" under the Audio tab. In other words, my final DVD product did not include sound. (Did I mention I am still learning, lol...)

Anyway, if anyone can shed some light on the issue I would greatly appreciate it.

Thanks in advance.

TB

Comments

autopilot wrote on 9/13/2008, 7:25 PM
Don't feel toooo bad - a lot of folks here render the audio & video separately and then join them up in DVDA.

I render them together, so someone else chime in . . .
tcbetka wrote on 9/13/2008, 8:38 PM
Well, I was quite surprised to see how easy it was to render the audio concurrently, simply by checking the box. But if that somehow messed up DVDA menu system, then I will need to find a different way I suppose.

I would be interested to learn the separate rendering method--what audio format do you use to go along with mpg2? I suppose it would be easy enough to do, now that I think about it...

TB