Editing an already rendered and prepared project.

SonicForumMembe wrote on 9/4/2003, 6:30 PM
If after creating a project and preparing it for burn (10 hours or so) I find a spelling mistake or other such small error in the menuing, is there a way to go into the project, fix the mistake, and then re-prepare for burn without it going through the whole 10 hour encoding step again? After all, it's all already been encoded and all I'm changing is a piece of menu text... In this case I have re-rendered but it would be nice to know for future issues...

Thanks in advance for any assistance.

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kameronj wrote on 9/4/2003, 9:00 PM
Short answer....nope.

Longer answer - I would quality check prior to hitting the "make DVD button".

Lastly ... what type of video are you asking DVDA to make into a video that it has to render for 10 hours?

Do you have Vegas? If you do your work and render to the DVD Template in Vegas (and do the separate audio), you don't have to do any rendering. Makes the process go a lot faster.

But....unless there is somethign about DVDA that I dont know about yet as in a way to go into the prepared folders and change a spelling on a menu - then I would sure like to know that (but I don't think tehre is a way).
SonicForumMembe wrote on 9/4/2003, 10:37 PM
That's what I figured. I always do quality checks first but sometimes those little ones slip through the cracks. :> I guess it would be nice if when you went to "Prepare DVD" it could check the folder you choose for an already present copy, and instead of completely replacing what's there, it just did the appropriate corrections. From a programming side it would entail keeping track of all changes since a prior "Prepare DVD" and then applying those only.

The 10+ hours of encoding are due to taking DV AVI files from Premiere and letting DVDA do all the encoding. Machine is a 866MHZ machine with about 1.3 gigs of RAM. So plenty of memory but the cpu is kind of slow. :>

Thanks for confirming though. :>
robycos wrote on 9/5/2003, 4:21 AM
have you tried some SW for editing VOBs? I 've never tried but I think it could work...
SonyEPM wrote on 9/5/2003, 9:30 AM
"The 10+ hours of encoding are due to taking DV AVI files from Premiere and letting DVDA do all the encoding. "

If you open the DV files from Premiere and encode them as valid no-recompress DVD MPEG-2 + PCM .wav or AC-3 files in Vegas, then load these files in DVDA, your DVDA prepare time will drop dramatically.

Pre-encode in Vegas whenever possible- there's no downside.
SonicForumMembe wrote on 9/5/2003, 10:19 PM
Hey Gang,

thanks for all the feedback. Haven't tried SW for editing VOBs but will get around to checking them out one of these days. :> Regarding pre-encoding, I haven't played with Vegas yet and have been using Premiere for years. DVDA is very impressive so might have to go give Vegas a test drive as well. For premiere though, the quality of encoding that DVDA does seems to be much better and that's even after playing around with TMPG plugin on Premiere (which I'm sure many others have used to make great footage so am not arguing which is better... just saying my experience). So for now, I'd rather spend the extra hours in DVDA encoding then do it before hand in another software package. If I go to Vegas though I can see where encoding there will help in saving time on re-edits in DVDA. Only other issue is that I have to put out NTSC and PAL versions so keeping the encoding to the final step in DVDA might save me time and/or quality.

Good editing all!