Keeping rendered DVD media

Nigel_Aves wrote on 3/9/2003, 1:07 PM
I produced a DVD - rendered etc and burnt to Disk (+RW for my test DVD, I have enough coasters!) When watching on the TV I noticed a small spelling mistake in my opening menu.

I made the change but discovered it had to re-render the entire project rather than just re-rendering the opening menu.

Do you know if it's possible to re-use the rendered files in the same project?

Nigel

Comments

Aje wrote on 3/9/2003, 3:40 PM
There is an authoring program "Neo DVD+" from mediastream, where you can make a
"VR compilation" and burn to a DVD RW disc with possibilities to change anything you want in the authoring process and then burn it again without rerendering.
However this program is not good in compare with DVDA in other and more important authoring features.
Aje
Nigel_Aves wrote on 3/10/2003, 10:13 AM
Aje,

Yes, I used that once or twice as it came free with my DVD burner. Ulead's DVD software does the same except that only re-renders the changed files / menus needed, much quicker.

I seems like an easy thing to incorporate and I was wondering if there was a setting I had missed in DVD-A.

Nigel
SonySDB wrote on 3/11/2003, 10:18 AM
No. You didn't miss any settings. DVD-A will re-prepare your entire project again.

As a side note, by using compliant media for your videos, you can reduce your prepare time; the compliant media will not be re-rendered.
rstein wrote on 3/11/2003, 11:15 AM
And this is another reason why some of us feel that the AC-3 audio render from Vegas should be more seamless than it is - currently it requires two manual steps to create the video then the audio.

It would be very nice to have an NTSC DVD-A template that simply created the compliant video AND compressed AC-3 audio in one swoop. I realize that with scripting this is possible, but some of us don't trust .NET technology enough to want to mutate our OS solely to allow Vegas to do this. Can this be done more natively within the Vegas app?

Thanks,
Bob.