Newbie Making DVD from vegas

roxylee wrote on 4/3/2006, 7:28 PM
Thanks for the patience from everyone for probable duplicate needs but I'm still learning the lingo and haven't found an answer to my question.

I am bringing in a rendered MPEG2 video file 1 hour long into Vegas video. I am putting in the effects (fade in/outs) and putting in markers at the points i desire.

when i'm finished with this (one video and one audio track) I am selecting Make movie and am rendering the movie to my harddrive.

It takes about an hour to an hour and a quarter. when i open up DVD studio, i cannot find the file I just rendered. i can find the original media files and bring them in but that's it.

I want to bring into DVD studio the file I just worked on in vegas and have the marker points be my chapters in DVD. the quick start guide and my scanning these posts have not shown me how to do this. I have ordered a set of DVD tutorials, but they won't be here for about a week.

Does anyone have the patience to explain how to do what I am asking and/or point me to something that a true novice will understand without having to look up everyother word in the dictionary to make it thru each sentence.

Thanks in advance
roxylee

Comments

whr wrote on 4/4/2006, 9:12 AM
What format are you rendering the movie to? Is it another MPEG2? If so, DVD should load the file fine.

Are you checking your render settings? There are many formats that you have to select from.

I will often render my videos in Vegas to an uncompressed AVI format and let DVD covertet them to MPEG. It takes longer but works very well.

roxylee wrote on 4/4/2006, 7:47 PM
Thank you for your reply.

I rendered into mpeg 2. maybe i just don't understand how to "load" the movie.

I realized, after getting your response, that the movie i rendered was not saved to my original source file, as i expected. i've relocated the movie i rendered in vms in das's explorer window. I've dragged the movie up to the menu window, as i do not see an icon to load the movie in any other way.

The movie appears in the lower right hand window and in the upper center menu window. The markers that i placed in vms do not appear to be designated anywhere. i wonder, why take the time to do this in vms if the markers don't transfer over to das?


roxylee
Chienworks wrote on 4/4/2006, 8:12 PM
You see an icon in the central DVD creation window that links to your movie, correct? Right-mouse-button click on this icon and select "insert scene selection menu". This will create a second icon. Clicking on that will open up a new page or pages with buttons for each chapter marker.
Paul Mead wrote on 4/4/2006, 10:19 PM
Also, when you do the "make movie", make sure you have the "export markers" checkbox set.
roxylee wrote on 4/5/2006, 9:55 AM
Thank you for your reply,
No, I do not see an icon in the dvd creation window (top center window?). the screen is black with the word Menu 1 in the center in white letters.

My video appears in the lower right hand window in separate video/audio channels.

the rest of your suggestions don't apply yet since i don't have the "icon".

I dragged the video file from windows explorer into das because i could not find an import option. did i bring the video into das in a wrong manner? what is the proper way to bring in a video selection?

thank you
roxylee
roxylee wrote on 4/5/2006, 10:09 AM
thank you for your reply.
I chose make movie and the second menu i chose save to hard drive.
i chose mpeg 2, dvd ntsc as template, all boxes are unchecked except save project markeds, which was checked by default.
When i've dragged the video file into dvs, and i see the video and audio timelines in the lower right hand window, there are no markers at the same points that i made them in vms.

maybe i'm overassuming what these markers do? I assumed that where ever i placed a marker, which i titled, they would coincide with individual chapters on the dvd. if they don't, i don't see the benefit of doing this step in vms, and doing it only in dvs.

thanks again,
roxylee