I’ve done several DVD’s using Vegas Movie Studio and DVDA. I’ve run into trouble with my most recent project.
I was doing an approximately 70 minute movie and by the time VMS had reached the 40 minute mark the program was crashing and freezing on me. This had not ever happened before but I was combining video, stills, and graphics, and perhaps that had something to do with the problem. I decided I would split up the project into 4 separate files of about 20 minutes, 22 minutes, 17 minutes, and 12 minutes to keep some of the strain off the computer’s resources. That worked No more crashes.
I saved the four files as AVI files and imported them into DVDA, prepared a project and burned the DVD. I thought I knew what I was doing but apparently not. While the project was being prepared the message DVDA was giving me was that the disk would contain approximately 4.5 GB optimized to fit. That was fine with me. I wanted to be able to click on play and see the entire movie.
However, when I went to play the movie what I got was four separate movies. Going to “My Computer” and looking at the files on the disk I see there are four titles listed. (I haven’t tried playing it on a DVD player, just my computer.) It’s Title 1, Chapter 1, Title 2, Chapter 1; Title 3, chapter 1 and Title 4, chapter 1. They play separately as clicked but somehow the avi files were rendered as separate files, not as one movie.
A thread from more than two years ago here on this board mentioned using the music compilation feature to link or chain separate video files as one movie.
When I dragged and dropped the four AVI files into a Music compilation and clicked “Prepare project” I got these two blue “I” messages.
1. The end of music compilation 2 (my project name) uses the most recent menu command before a menu is reached. It will link to the top menu or stop if no menus.
2. The remote button action of “Music Compilation 2" uses the most recent menu command before a menu is reached. It will link to the top menu or stop if no menus.”
I don’t really don’t know what these messages mean but I know that I didn’t want to spend two and a half to three hours waiting for DVDA to re-render the avi files and then burn a new disk only to find that I’ve still got a problem seeing the project as one movie rather than 4 movies.
Frankly I find VMS fairly easy to follow and comprehend, but not DVDA. Could someone tell me how I would go about taking the four AVI files and preparing a project and burning a disk so that I will have the one movie? Or pointing me to a thread which will give those directions?
Thanks
Jim
I was doing an approximately 70 minute movie and by the time VMS had reached the 40 minute mark the program was crashing and freezing on me. This had not ever happened before but I was combining video, stills, and graphics, and perhaps that had something to do with the problem. I decided I would split up the project into 4 separate files of about 20 minutes, 22 minutes, 17 minutes, and 12 minutes to keep some of the strain off the computer’s resources. That worked No more crashes.
I saved the four files as AVI files and imported them into DVDA, prepared a project and burned the DVD. I thought I knew what I was doing but apparently not. While the project was being prepared the message DVDA was giving me was that the disk would contain approximately 4.5 GB optimized to fit. That was fine with me. I wanted to be able to click on play and see the entire movie.
However, when I went to play the movie what I got was four separate movies. Going to “My Computer” and looking at the files on the disk I see there are four titles listed. (I haven’t tried playing it on a DVD player, just my computer.) It’s Title 1, Chapter 1, Title 2, Chapter 1; Title 3, chapter 1 and Title 4, chapter 1. They play separately as clicked but somehow the avi files were rendered as separate files, not as one movie.
A thread from more than two years ago here on this board mentioned using the music compilation feature to link or chain separate video files as one movie.
When I dragged and dropped the four AVI files into a Music compilation and clicked “Prepare project” I got these two blue “I” messages.
1. The end of music compilation 2 (my project name) uses the most recent menu command before a menu is reached. It will link to the top menu or stop if no menus.
2. The remote button action of “Music Compilation 2" uses the most recent menu command before a menu is reached. It will link to the top menu or stop if no menus.”
I don’t really don’t know what these messages mean but I know that I didn’t want to spend two and a half to three hours waiting for DVDA to re-render the avi files and then burn a new disk only to find that I’ve still got a problem seeing the project as one movie rather than 4 movies.
Frankly I find VMS fairly easy to follow and comprehend, but not DVDA. Could someone tell me how I would go about taking the four AVI files and preparing a project and burning a disk so that I will have the one movie? Or pointing me to a thread which will give those directions?
Thanks
Jim