Nests/Veggies to DVDA Workspace!

cbrillow wrote on 1/31/2010, 9:01 AM

"Can you imagine just dragging a VEG onto the DVDA workspace - and just having it DONE!"

What does this mean? All-automatic from that point on?

In the first place, how would DVDA know what to do with the VEG file? Most experienced users seem to prefer the 2-step render to mpeg-2 and AC-3 for audio, for optimum control over project quality. Does a VEG file normally contain these output files? No.

Would you have to specially configure the VEG file with mpeg-2 and AC-3 on the timeline so that DVDA knew what it was supposed to burn? You can't put an AC-3 file on the Vegas timeline.

What about authoring --- menu structures, background audio and video, chapters, etc? It occurs to me that all this would save is a few menu clicks for importing the files into DVDA. There's a lot of work to be done after the media is part of the DVDA project.

Is the complexity required to make DVD-A "VEG file-aware" a better use of SCS programmers time than shaking out the remaining bugs in both products, and augmenting their functionality with features that are found in other tools or have been requested by the Vegas user base? My opinion is 'no'.

What about DVDs that have multiple titles, created from different Vegas projects?

I used to use 'all-in-one' editing/DVD creation software, where all you had to do was push a button to switch between modules. It was called 'Pinnacle Studio'. Need I say more?

bStro wrote on 1/31/2010, 9:39 AM

I've got the same line of thinking as the others, Grazie: what does "having it done" mean in this instance? DVDA finds the VEG and renders / encodes it for DVD (or Blu-ray, as the case may be)? Are you looking for multiple assets created from that VEG or just a rendered and encoded video? And should DVDA assume what settings (including bitrate) you want for the MPEG, or does it ask?

I don't know, I've always been and still of the "use the best tool for the job" mindset, and Vegas does VEGs better than anybody!

But if you expand a bit on your idea, maybe it will sound more attractive to me. ;) Nice to see you in this neck of the woods!

Rob

Grazie wrote on 2/1/2010, 1:51 PM

Sorry Guys been out and about today.

I understand the need - same for me - to do the finessing and deep authoring that HAS to be worked thru'.' This I understand and use myself. It was only this weekend past that I was wanting to just run some VEGGIEs straight onto a DVD platter - bosh! If had had a "Well, Grazie you used this last time you want I should use this again? OK-dokies!" - It was THAT type of thing.

I don't see my idea as an "Instead-Of" but rather a quick fire tool I could just employ when needed. There ARE render tools for Vegas out there, and I have them, it was just that I was dragging AVIs/MPGs to a DVDA workspace and I thought . . .

So, no, not an INSTEAD of but rather AS WELL AS tool.

Thanks for your patience . . .

Grazie

cbrillow wrote on 2/1/2010, 2:45 PM

I getcha now. It's an additional simplification of the simplified route I often take for a quick test. I often make test burns with different encode settings and video effects/filters before authoring the 'final' DVD. Usually, it's only a portion of the entire video, just to get a look at video quality on the telly.

For these tests, I just use the 'single movie DVD' setting and omit all the rest. I can see how your idea would make that even easier for such situations.

Grazie wrote on 2/1/2010, 11:00 PM

> " I can see how your idea would make that even easier for such situations."

Yes! Exactly . . . I was wanting to have lickety-spit trials on my SONY BRAVIA - yeah?

Better yet!!! Now HERE'S a novel thought: A Direct Wireless Link to my UpScaler TV straight from DVDA?!?? Or come to that straight from the VEgas Timeline?? Woah! - Oh yes, all via an encode just to make sure everything is singing and dancing.

Grazie