Exchanging Media But Keeping The Links Unbroken

papaterry33 wrote on 3/1/2011, 6:27 PM
Burned my BD and found that all of my cropping and adjusting within DVDA had not just cropped and adjusted the thumbnails on my menu chapters but had effected the entire clips. A dummy working his video magic, uh-huh. Back to the project to figure if I can swap the spoiled video clip for a good unsullied version and still have my menu working as before. No joy; broken links all over the place. Could create new scenes/chapters, but would lose the titles, the labeling etc.
Tried it anyway and wound up with 2 sets of scene selection, one with thumbnails I had created prior to ruining my media and one without. It didn't work so well. Can someone tell me how one might be able to replace a video clip from withing the project w/o losing the funtionality and look of his menu he worked so long and hard on? Hope I've described the issue sufficiently to let ya know what the heck I'm talking 'bout. I already re-did this project, but it could prove helpful information in my stumbling video work ahead.
Thanks,
Terry

Comments

Steve Mann wrote on 3/1/2011, 8:40 PM
Your workflow confuses me, but you just go into the media properties window and replace the media.

papaterry33 wrote on 3/2/2011, 9:32 AM
So simple! thanks Steve. Work flow? Yes, I must practice this 'til I get it. Point me to some good posts on that if you will?
In this project I had my menus all set, functioning perfectly, had selected the thumbnail for each clip to display in the menu. Then I discovered you can right clip on that menu thumbnail and crop and edit the lighting, contrast of it. So I did that with a bunch of them prior to going on to the burn disc process. I didn't realize that the crop and tweak I just did had changed the brightness on entire clips and looked horrible when I played the disc. I was used to software where your changes on thumbnails doesn't effect the video clip itself. So I wanted to replace the media and keep the menu but needed the help you just gave me. I think it would be great if you could edit the thumbnails in the menu w/o changing the video clip itself.
Thanks again,
Terry
Steve Mann wrote on 3/2/2011, 1:28 PM
You should do all your video editing and FX in Vegas and just use DVDA for the DVD authoring.
papaterry33 wrote on 3/12/2011, 1:15 PM
Sorry, Steve, not to get back to this forum sooner. Many things distracting.

Do my editing in VP and not in DVDA, you say.
Yes, I do that, but then in that particular instance, I saw in dvda , just prior to burning my disc, the opportunity to tweak the thumbnail images on my menu and the tweaking unexpectedly tweaked the clips themselves.

Let me add this and perhaps some input back will result: The desire to crop those thumbnails arose from wanting the thumbs on my menu chapters to display better. I was using a Theme (Wood 2) that game little bitty windows for the video to show through. Cropping would let me shift image over to the parts I wanted to show. Do you see what I mean? The result looked better on the menu pages, but the editing extended to the whole video clip. I decided from now on not to use the Themes that give so little space for the video. One could confine himself to putting 1 chapter per menu page and stretch the thumbs but sometimes that results in way too many menu pages.
Thoughts?
Terry
Merlin711 wrote on 3/30/2011, 8:05 AM
New to DVD A. How do I get to the Media Properties Menu you displayed?
Steve Grisetti wrote on 3/30/2011, 9:32 AM
By double-clicking on a media (video) clip in your Project Overview window so that your video clip appears in the Workspace panel.

When you have media displayed in your Workspace panel, the Properties panel to the right of it will display your Media Properties. (The illustration above has this panel stretched much wider than you'd usually see it.)
Merlin711 wrote on 3/31/2011, 8:23 AM
Thanks Steve. Soooo easy when you know how.