>>Why would the Arch1.0 DVD look inferior to that of Studio?

I used Studio 8 rather extensively.

The biggest difference between Studio 8 and DVD-A is that DVD-A makes DVD's that work - RELIABLY.

No doubt it, Studio 8 has all the bells and whistles; excellent selection of MPG2 motion backgrounds, titling, buttons, etc. But the core function, to reliably create a reliable DVD seems to be lacking...not to mention arbitrary program crashes before saving Studio 8 work. I use my old Studio 8 motion backgrounds nicely in DVD-A.

I can think of no function that Studio 8 does to a DVD that DVD-A does not. I don't think I am forgetting anything. DVD-A packages it a little more stramlined. Studio 8 has all of the stuff right out there in the open. You need to go a little deeper in DVD-A.

Once you get going in DVD-A, it's very, very easy.

A very nice "invisible" feature of DVD-A is the AC3 audio encoding. Studio 8 uses PCM, which is all fine and good, but it's a bigger file size, which means less room for video. which means inferior/less video quality. DVD-A uses the smaller AC3 format, which leaves more room for video. This is not something you can "see," but it is very significant.

I came to Vegas from Studio 8 and I have never been more pleased with a software package. Studio 8 was the worst program I have ever used on any platform for any purpose. Vegas + DVD is the best. No question.

With regard to video editing, Vegas completely blows Studio 8 out of the water. There is no comparison...

Quickly: Yes, you can cut a video frame. Peak display shows relative volume; gives a graphic display of volume levels. You could live without it, but it allows you to see that you even have there, as well as relative volume levels, plus it's pretty nice when cutting commercials of broadcast TV video clips. :)

If you get into Vegas + DVD, you'll never look back...

Is there a method to view a moving scrubber in the edit window?

--> Drag the mouse, while holding the left mouse button, in the blank area below the toolbar and above the timeline.

Can the editor cut a specfic frame?

--> In "Options" enable Auto Ripple (you can change which tracks are affected using the Auto Ripple tool on the toolbar). Put the cursor where you want to cut a frame. Press and hole both the Shift and the Alt key. Press either the right or left arrow. Regardless of the zoom level, this will move the cursor one frame to the right or left. Press the delete key.

What is the Peak display all about?

Why would the Arch1.0 DVD look inferior to that of Studio?
--> I haven't used the DVD feature in Studio, but the video and audio quality of DVD Architect is generally considered top notch.

I would also add to the comments of others that Studio has never been stable. As much as I liked it for simple projects, I got tired of crashes. Also, it is sluggish.

Vegas is snappy, fast, and almost crash proof (more stable than almost any program I've ever used).

Kentwolf,

How do you use the built in motion menus of Studio 8 with DVD-A?? Maybe I missed an easy thing to get those to DVD-A.

Thanks,

Galen

>>How do you use the built in motion menus of Studio 8 with DVD-A??

1.) Have your desired background motion video clip in a particular location.
2.) In DVD-A, on Page Properties, look at the Background Video/Image selection dialog.
3.) Select the former Studio 8 background motion video clip as the desired media. You can set sound to somemthing else, if needed.
4.) Check the "Looped" box to = true.
5.) Hit preview, and you are good to go.

...and there ya' go.

kentwolf,

Thanks for your help. I can pull in the menu backgrounds from Studio 8 but if I open the menu subdirectory of Studio 8 that has the motion menus, they are not regonized in DVD-A as a mulimedia file. I forget the extension they have..dlt or something like that. Anyway, not a normal video file extension.

Have you used those motion backgoround menus in DVD-A also??

I dropped one on the Studio timeline and rendered it as an MPEG2 file then pulled it into DVD-A, but have not tried putting buttons, etc on it.

Thanks again,

Galen

The motion backgrounds should be MPG2 files; i.e. Blue clouds 2.mpg, Blurry blocks.mpg, Blurry flames.mpg, etc.

Even my static backgrounds are JPG files.

Are you sure you are looking in the appropriate directory?

Search for *.mpg in the studio directory, or Program Files; may be something like "shared files," or something like that. Also, try searching for the file names I listed above. If you had Studio 8, you should have these available.

whitneyd,

I responded to your earlier post about the scrubber with a lengthy explanation of different ways to scrub in Vegas. Did you read my response, there was never any follow up post from you there so I assumed it may have answered your question, but here you are asking it again.

Here is a link to my response:
Preview Window Scrubber
I spent a lot of time on this response for you.

I had asked you if that was what you were looking for, but you did not respond. I would be more then happy to help you with this, but we need the feedback from you to know if we are talking about the same thing.

Maybe what comes to mind when we say scrubber is different? What does it mean to you?

Just trying to help!