I'm happy now, made my first DVD without a hitch, and it's true; it was a very intuitive process after the less intuitive importation of my own background.

Sorry Paul, I wasn't around to answer your question - I was asleep in London when you posted!

OK, time for Grazie to own up. <Drum roll> I didn't know there was a deinterlace Icon in DVDA? Previously I had been going OUT to Paint Shop Pro to do it. What a complete twit! ! ! I had this BG, of the "London Eye" and it was wobbling on the interlace. Hit the Icon - BOOM! Done! Love it!

Paul, as you were talking about backgrounds, I suddenly remembered that I saw this Icon, for the first time - and NO, I wont say how long ago I saw this!! I do have SOME pride! <chuckle>

Good to hear you are digging about within the manual. But even so, this thread, hopefully, has become an option for those "others" reading it that have felt a bit intimidated not to go messing about with DVDA, and maybe now, 'cos of your questions, feel that they can. See? Everybody gains.

For quick DVDs I use TMPGEnc DVD Author. It's very fast indeed, rock solid reliable, and you can do a reasonable menu with it. No subtitles or advanced features though.

I use DVDA for advanced projects with subtitles etc.. I tried it the other day for a "medium" project and got frustrated rather quickly. The text size for the chapter names under my thumbnails was way too small and it looked like it was going to take me a long time to revise the layout to improve that. Perhaps I need some more templates from somewhere.

Unfortunately DVDA 4.0 will not accept the long MPEG2 files created by CCE (my preferred encoder) that 3.0 had no trouble with. But that's another issue.

>>>>Unfortunately DVDA 4.0 will not accept the long MPEG2 files created by CCE (my preferred encoder) that 3.0 had no trouble with. But that's another issue.<<<<

My test file was an MPEG 2 (m2t) created in Vegas and it was over thirty minutes long; DVDA gave me no trouble with it.

>>>I was asleep in London when you posted!<<<

Grazie, London is a dandy place to be asleep in -- can't blame you for doing it. BTW, my current project is all situated in London. It's an animated feature based on J.R. Ackerley's book, My Dog Tulip. I thought I'd have to spend some time visiting London before I embarked on the movie but I've found everything I need on the Web, particularly street scenes from Putney (and most particularly in the 40's and 50's) which I have never visited.

Paul

Are you saying you couldn't then, but you've figured out how to since then? Or just that you can't at all?

BStro (Rob), I wish you could rearrange things like you can in Firefox (favorites). In order to rearrange things in DVDA you drag the item to the top level and then it rises to the top. I would like to be able to drag it above another item and have it stay there, but unless you or someone else can clue me in I haven't been able to do that.

GrenadaV, 3/15/2007 10:17:37 PM:
"I find DVD Architect a bit unintuitive."

No DVD authoring software is intuitive (like Vegas is).

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For some good insight into DVDA, Volume 6 of Absolute Training for Vegas + DVD is pretty good.
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Thank you. I think I have seen this one once or twice :)

KK