Thanks BillyBoy. Yes I understand I can put everything on one timeline in Vegas, render, and bring into DVDA.

However, I would prefer to have individual rendered projects in Vegas and then bring them into DVDA and burn them. This way, I could finish one project in it's entirety, from edit to burn, rather than having to complete editing for 2 or more projects, and simultaneously put them all on a timeline, then burn the DVD.

Is it possible to do this on an individual basis in DVDA?

Yes. You can use multiple projects in DVDA. What you can’t do is incrementally burn them. They must all be burnt in a single session. What I do is set my chapter points in Vegas and then render to DVD MPEG2 and AC3 file. I save this in a directory and wipe the rest of the capture drive clean and start my next project. When I have enough MPEG2 files to fill a DVD I just burn them all at once.

~jr

I finally burned my first DVD and it went perfectly! It's amazing how creating a DVD can really put the finishing touches on a project.

I'm still confused about the best way to burn multiple projects on a single DVD. I understand I can bring everything into one timeline, setup chapters and subchapters, and burn. I assume I do this with a copy and paste between the timelines in Vegas.

JohnnyRoy and others, could you explain in more detial how I can burn multiple projects on a DVD-R in a single session? How is the menu setup and how does it function?

What do most of you do if you have short projects that only consume 20-30 miutes or less of a DVD? Do you just have one project per DVD regardless of the size? I suppose the advantage of this is if the DVD were ever to become damaged, at least only one project is lost.

Thanks for your suggestions.

>you misread the play through ability. .DVD-A can NOT play video two after completing Video one IF they are seperate files. <

Actually, you can. You can set up as many A/V files as will fit on the disc and set them up as a "Music" Compilation. They will play sequentially.

Gary

Hey Billyboy,

I was reading Spot's Vegas book and looking at the Music compilation part of DVD-A and Spot says you can use this to show videos one after another. Basically you are fooling DVD-a into thinking you are creating a music playlist when infact you are creating an mpg2 playlist. It works I tried it.

When it asks for audio files to be dragged on the work space just drag the W64 or ac3 file and the video comes with it! When song (err. I mean video) 1 is done then video 2 is played. So just create your menus as normal, then on the page where you want a button for video 1, 2, 3, 4 etc just right click and choose "insert music compalation". Go figure.

jack

I wasn't referring to "fooling" DVD-A into doing something. If that's what you want I could list a bunch of things too, but the issue becomes will doing that allow the DVD you make to play in ALL DVD players?

I don't know. Neither does anyone else unless they have ALL the DVD players out there world-wide in the marketplace. There are over a 100 makes and probably thousands of models.

What you see in the forum is a lot of people complain about is the end action feature (missing as a choice) which allows you to "program" a certain action. Similar to your drving down the road then hitting a "T" intersection and being forced to turn left or right. In the current version of DVD-A you're not given a choice as to what you want to do, you're forced to do the only action DVD-A supports.

Bet the farm this serious omission will be addressed in the next version of DVD-A. Till then you can do kludges.

Do you think that using the music compilation work around would make the disc less player support? I don't know enough about the DVD spec or how the files are written/read to know.

jack

Can you create the Music Compilatation using just AVI files? Or do you have to use Vegas to render the separate video and audio files?