Editing a dvd

alicia wrote on 10/1/2005, 1:44 AM
Hello everybody

I create a DVD (Vegas5/Architect2), when it's done, if i have modifications to made like adding a song or replacing a part of the video by another, I have to start over in Vegas which mean: re-editing, re-rendering, re-architect rendering and burning.

Is there a way not to go over the whole process ? Is it possible to make it faster/simpler?

Thanks

Alicia

Comments

rsp wrote on 10/1/2005, 4:36 AM
Planning a project before starting is the best solution; a simple drawing of what it should look like will be time-saving! Ask yourself now what is the reason for those modifications and remember the reason for your next project.

Rudi
johnmeyer wrote on 10/1/2005, 9:17 AM
Yes, several things you can do to make a huge difference in how much time you must kill waiting for Vegas and DVDA to re-render, etc. Here are the "secrets:"

1. Render in Vegas, not in DVDA. If you render in DVDA, then any changes you make will require a re-render.

2. Use DVDA 3.0. This new version has "smart re-prepare" which only prepares the parts of the project that have changed. In some cases, this reduces the time down to seconds that it takes to see the results of a change. This is especially true of menus. You can make a change in the menu, and a few seconds later, your project is ready to burn.

3. Render your project in sections. If you render your entire project to one giant 4 GByte MPEG-2 file, then any change you make will require you to re-render the whole darn thing, which can take hours. However, if you create the project in 4-5 chunks, and you later need to make a change in Vegas to some of the video, then you only have to re-render that one "chunk." The downside is that in DVDA, when you import multiple MPEG-2 files, DVDA insists on creating a DVD that is configured as multiple titlesets. This makes navigation backward and forward much more difficult. The trick around this is to put all the MPEG files into a DVDA "Music Compilation." Search on my name in this forum for "music compilation" and you'll find more details on how to do this.