Hi Scott,

Thank you for your reply. Unfortunately, rendering all three segments as one from Vegas does not work because they are different formats. The 60i footage, if rendered as 24p, is fuzzy. And I don't want to render all my 24p footage (which is most of the film) as 60i because, although minimal, I understand that the great 24p quality is diminished by doing this.

Do you have any other ideas?

Ruben

Possibly a bug, or maybe just how it works -- I've gotten so used to it I never think about it anymore -- check the clip duration of all video imported into DVDA, whether intro, menu, title, whatever.... I normally [have to] knock off a frame or 3. In fact, design intro clips, that I want to precisely match the menu, with an extra frame of video (not audio) cause I know I'll chop off that last frame.

Hope it works for ya, or gives an idea or 3.

How do I cut off a frame in DVDA? I can't seem to be able to do that.

Thank you,

Ruben

"How do I cut off a frame in DVDA?"

For a title, intro, &/or transition video it's not bad at all: Click the timeline, Click the button to move to the end, Then zoom in (usually with the mouse scroll wheel)... You'll see a yellowish triangle marking the end of the video -- everything to the right will be shaded darker. Move that triangle to the left -- it'll snap to each frame, and show that frame in the preview. It's normal for the audio and video tracks to not end at the exact same spot, & not a problem if you leave it that way or move the end point marker to a frame with both audio & video present.

For menus it's a tiny bit more work... Go to the menu duration, select manual from the dropdown (autocalculate I think is the default), zoom in as above, then just replace the last 2 or 3 numbers in the figure shown for time duration & hit enter. I usually decrease the duration by 5 - 20 at a time, fine tuning until the end of the video (the shaded portion on the timeline) is at the last frame.

Normally in DVDA the tracks will extend a little bit beyond the last frame for whatever reason, causing the next frame to be played without any picture data, so it shows black -- or at least that's my guess. If you're not (re)encoding changing the endpoints won't alter the video at all -- menus are almost always encoded by DVDA, so often just import the avi files (why bother encoding in Vegas?).

Ok, I'm going to go try it. Thank you.

I tried it but I can't see the yellowish triangle you mentioned.