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MPM wrote on 6/20/2008, 8:33 AM
I'm not sure what you're asking, Tom.

If what you wanted was an individualized video title that played before the main title - like the FBI warnings and such that play before a movie on a DVD you picked up at Best Buy... I suppose you could save some time by creating one project using a generic file name for the camper intro, then for each of the 48 remaining DVDs simply swap out that file (& audio) before starting DVDA.

Another approach might be to include all the intros, and have a menu to select the camper. Or, instead of a menu with 49 buttons over however many pages, you could change your first play menu or video (what you wanted to play first when the DVD starts) after importing everything.

Don't know if that'll help or not -
Tom Chalmers wrote on 6/20/2008, 11:10 AM
Thank You. After reading my question the second time(it made sense when i wrote it the first time) I am not clear.
I would like to cut down on render time in DVDA. I rendered the Video and when I put it into DVDA I would like to cut down on future render time by just entering the Intro's, about one minute in length, into the beginning of the project because I will have to do this 49 times I didn't want to render all of the Video, about 1hr 30min in length each time. Hope that makes sense.
Tom
johnmeyer wrote on 6/20/2008, 1:25 PM
I am still not clear what you want to do, but if you are trying to make custom DVDs for each player, where the intro is unique to that person's DVD, then what you do is render ALL the content in Vegas. Render the video to MPEG-2 and the audio to AC-3. Render each of the 49 intros to separate MPEG-2 / AC-3 pairs.

Then, in DVDA, drop the main video into the DVD and make your menus, etc. Then, drop the intro onto the project area (left side of the interface). Make it the first play item and set the end action for the item to point to your main menu or the main video, however you want it to work. Prepare and burn that DVD.

Then, for each subsequent DVD, go to the intro media, click on it, and then on the right side, click on the Media tab and then for both video and audio, select "Replace" and get the next video and audio. Prepare and burn this DVD. The prepare will only take a few seconds if you use the "smart reprepare" feature.

Years ago, I strongly suggested that Sony create a "mailmerge" feature that would permit us to create custom DVDs for each user. This could be as simple as including a serial number field, or as complicated as specifying a list of media to be "plugged in" for each custom DVD. My thinking is that this would be FAR better than copy protection because if any user decides to pirate your disc, all the copies would be traceable back to that person, since each DVD is unique.

Sony obviously had no interest in the idea.
Tom Chalmers wrote on 6/20/2008, 3:13 PM
I believe this is the answer to what i wanted.
Thank you very much. I know i was not as clear as is hould be.
Best,
Tom