Loosing Marker Text OR making bad DVDs?

Grazie wrote on 6/12/2004, 11:00 AM
Hello people, I MUST be doing something wrong .. .

My TWO workflow methodsare A or B :

Method 1:-
1 - Edit video and have Markers with ready for Chapter transfer to DVDA

2 - Prepare PAL-DV interim avi file within V5

3 - Bring back this newly rendered AVI, and Marker names have gone - Markers are there, names [ Chapter Titles] are gone ..

4 - Produce MPEG2 CBR 8000

5 - Into DVDA2 prepare burn - DVD plays well! No Chapter names available . .

Method 2: [ Okay, I'll do it this way . . ]

1 - Edit video name Markers ready for Chapters for

2 - Render MPEG2 from within V5 - CBR 8000 from within Vegas5 [ that is NO interim AVI file ]

3 - Open in DVDA2 Chapter Names appear in DVDA

4 - Prepare and Burn DVD

5 - DVD doesn't do well on text scrolling ..

Result:

1 - I can get a DVD without Chapter Text from Vegas5 which plays well

OR

2 - Have Chapter Names from V5 and get bad DVDs where there is text scrolling .. .

Any takers on this one?

I'll keep experimenting . . . thank heavens for re-writable DVD+RWs . . hah!

TIA

Grazie

Comments

kerrying wrote on 6/13/2004, 10:57 PM
Personally, I have been adopting workflow/method 2, and so far all has been well. If my guess was right, the chapter listing is actually kept inside a *.sfl file in the same folder where the rendered mpg is. DVDA automatically detects the file and uses it if available.

The interesting thing that I noticed before is: if the mpg was overwritten (have something changed in the edits in VV and then rerendered, this time, without saving the markers infos), DVDA may not detect it. I forgot what I did (tons of things) but it seems that sometimes I managed to get the chapter listing back, sometimes I don't (sometimes I lose the markers, sometimes I lose the entire chapter listing that include the chapter texts).

So, I guess maybe you can try playing around with the *.sfl file (editing the binary file, renaming it, re-time-stamp it with utility and etc..) and see how it turns out. Anyone else has other thoughts on this?

Anyway, while DVD authoring in DVDA 1 is delightfully easy (albeit a little limited in putting in extra fancy little things, e.g. specifying button highlight and corresponding navigation buttons), the interface is clunky at times (try aligning buttons or the automatic text resizing!! Will drive you nuts!!!).

DVDA 2 look promising, though..