I know it's very good news. Is mainconcept avc the same as magix avc as I can't find mainconcept on my vegas. But when I click magix avc it says mainconcept avc in the output box so I'm guessing it is the same.

If I use this to render my video what do I render the audio as?

Thank you

Kristina

I know it's very good news. Is mainconcept avc the same as magix avc as I can't find mainconcept on my vegas. But when I click magix avc it says mainconcept avc in the output box so I'm guessing it is the same.

If I use this to render my video what do I render the audio as?

Thank you

Kristina

The Magix AVC blu ray preset should be the exact same thing as mainconcept AVC with minor tweaks I assume.

For your Audio, use WAVE (Microsoft) at 48,000 hz 16 bit stereo PCM or Sony Wave64 at 48,000 hz 16 bit stereo PCM. Don't worry about the huge file size, we will fix that with this next step:

In DVD Architect 7 set your project settings (File > Properties) to have the audio format be AC-3 Stereo and then choose anywhere from 192Kb/s minimum to 320Kb/s maximum. This will compress your audio significantly, which is a good thing. Now, Vegas does have a AC-3 codec built in as Dolby Digital, but the max output is 192Kb/s. This method gets around that limit and lets you go way above that, even to 640Kb/s.

When you render the project to disc or ISO it will say a re-compression is required of the audio. That is what we want.

Unless you are using 5.1 or surround, you can use your WAV file (PCM) as your audio in a bluray. You can use it in a DVD as well, it just takes up more space, which is premium in a DVD but usually abundant in a Bluray.

Unless you are using 5.1 or surround, you can use your WAV file (PCM) as your audio in a bluray. You can use it in a DVD as well, it just takes up more space, which is premium in a DVD but usually abundant in a Bluray.

Yes, that is true. You could juse use the Sony Wave64 PCM (basically uncompressed) as your audio. That preset is a bluray standard preset.

For my projects I sometimes do that with 24 bit PCM on my blu rays.

Hi

I've burnt a copy of my blu ray to see if it works.

It does work however at the end of every scene menu it goes to a blank page straight away when the audio finishes. How do i make the background stay on the screen until a chapter is selected nstead of just going blank?

Thank you

Kristina

Sounds like your option for End action of that menu is set to Hold or something else. Set it to Loop and it will play the menu segment (default is 30 seconds) over and over, infinitely, and will not just end and show nothing. If there's audio in your menu background it will loop over and over as well.

To see this menu click on the background of your menu and it should show "end action" in the top right. Set the End Action command to Loop.

It is set to hold yes. Isn't there any way of just showing it without playing it over and over again

Just showing it until someone clicks on a button?

Thank you

Kristina

I do not understand the problem. Is it you only don't want the audio to play again? If so you could make the menu longer and make a longer time of silence after your audio (as long as you like, actually, and the silence would have to be built into your audio stream) OR you could make another copy of that menu with no audio and have that option be set to command and go to that copied menu, with no audio, and loop on that menu, being silent after that.

Even having the audio loop again and those two options would force you to have it loop no matter what, and that does accomplish "showing it until someone clicks on a button".

Professional DVDs and Blu Rays all loop their menu systems. I have never seen one do anything different.

Thankyou I have loop it. Can I just loop the audio? Or does it have to be both the background and the audio? Sorry if you have already answered this

Thank you Kristina

Thankyou I have loop it. Can I just loop the audio? Or does it have to be both the background and the audio? Sorry if you have already answered this

Thank you Kristina

The Default loop option loops the audio and background and any animated thumbnails, forever, after the loop time is up.

Are you trying to do something special? What may that be?

Don't worry this does what I want thank you.

On a different topic what desktop/ laptop do you edit and work on? I'm looking at buying a professional set up as now I have just a lenevo laptop and it's pretty slow. Any suggestions would be great?

Thank you

Kristina

Don't worry this does what I want thank you.

On a different topic what desktop/ laptop do you edit and work on? I'm looking at buying a professional set up as now I have just a lenevo laptop and it's pretty slow. Any suggestions would be great?

Thank you

Kristina

I recently got a 3080 miraculously but I had gtx 1080s in SLI.

I edit 4k footage but most of the time I use Vegas' proxy option to avoid slow timelines.

My setup:

Case: Cooler Master H500M

Motherboard: Asus Maximus X AC wifi version

CPU: Intel i7-8700k (have not seen anything worth upgrading to for the price difference at the moment)

CPU cooler: Corsair Hydro series H150i PRO RGB 360mm radiator (mine is up top, inside the case).

Graphics: Nvidia RTX 3080 founders edition.

RAM: 32GB 4x 8GB Corsair Vengeance DDR4 3600mhz.

Storage: main drive 1TB Samsung 970 EVO Plus m.2 NVME, secondary m.2 is the 512GB version (used to be the main, I upgraded to the 1TB one). (Do not get SATA m.2 drives, they are the same as a 2.5" ssd with the PCIe bottleneck of about 300-500MB/s).

Other storage: 3x 1TB Samsung 860 QVO 2.5" SSD and 1x 4TB Seagate Barracuda 3.5". These SSDs are for "scratch" drives, places to store raw footage and output to another one when rendering. It puts a strain on them very hard so they may not last long. Good thing they're only $90!

I have about 8 other 4TB Seagate barracuda 3.5" drives in some hard drive enclosures that aren't made anymore, but those are not inside the computer.

Power Supply: Corsair RM1000x 1000w 80 plus Gold fully modular.

Monitors: Main monitor: AORUS FI27Q-P 27" (1440p 165hz gaming and DCI P3 95% 400 nits [not useful for HDR work])

secondary monitor: BenQ 27" 4kUHD (3840x2160) BL2711U real 10 bit panel (most 10 bit are 8 bit +FRC) 100% sRGB. This is GREAT for rec 709 10 bit SDR footage. I do not have a HDR monitor at this time.

Third monitor: this is actually a cheap 4k Samsung TV on my wall, a easy way to get rec 2020 HDR support but it's not perfect and they cut many corners. I would not suggest buying a $250 TV for HLG/HDR10 support in any way but it's cool to have. It's a UN43NU6900.

Now, for monitors you will need a monitor calibrator if you are doing any color work. Well you should have it anyways. I got the Datacolor SpyderX elite. It makes your screens as close as perfect to perfect white and perfect colors for your monitor's color space. You will need to re-calibrate once per month.

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My on-the-go editing rig for when clients want discs RIGHT NOW is the Asus ROG G531G with i7-9750H and RTX 2070 full size. 512GB samsung NVME and 1TB 2.5" mechanical drive. It has a IPS 1ms 240hz screen but that was just a splurge for gaming on the go.

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If I had to buy new things now, for about the same price as I got the things above I would change the motherboard to a similar one to about $399, and would look for one with PCIe Gen 4 support.

About the CPU... that is a hard question. I would still recommend intel although most would not. For the price I'd suggest maybe the i7 9700k (8 core compared to 8700k 6 core, more cores better video rendering, mostly, but not for gaming I believe!) but I would probably splurge and get the i9 10900k but that has another socket not compatible with my 8700k so I'd have to get a new motherboard that supports LGA 1200. The 8700k and 9700k support LGA 1151 300 series. I would probably have to honestly tell you to go to AMD at this point as Intel is behind on high level desktop chips.

As for graphics I'd say the 3080 is perfect. You will only need the 3090 if you are working with 8k footage with no proxy or are doing 3d rendering on special software. 3080 is fine. A 2080 super would be good but I'd suggest waiting for the 3080, it's worth it.

About monitors, I would suggest looking for a 4k 100% sRGB monitor in 10 bit (if you need that) and make SURE it's IPS for accurate colors (do NOT get a TN or VA panel for color accurate work) and that is going to be at least $500 or more. I would almost suggest buying a mid-range 4k TV at this point, as high end monitors are extremely expensive. If I had to buy one now I'd look for one with mini-led back lighting (very very new tech) with at least 1000 zones for HDR10 1000 nit support, that supports 95% or more DCI-P3 and maybe 80%+ rec 2020.

If all you do is regular rec 709 or sRGB I'd suggest the monitor I have for that, the BL2711U, but there's probably a newer version of it.

About power supplies, always get more wattage than you need. You'll never know when you need more!

Hi

I have another question for you all about dvd architect sorry.

On my chapter pages the button that I have chosen is text and image as I have a thumbnail of that part of the film in which is what I want.

I have also setup a custom Highlight which is a png file so when someone moves up and down they can actually see what they want to select which is also what I want.

The problem is that the mask image doesnt show when the chapter pages show. I don't understand as on the parent menu the mask is there straight from the start to highlight the play movie button and then when I press the down arrow the mask goes to scene selection to show what I'm going to pressed. Even when I copy the button and pasted it into page 1 displaying 3 chapters it doesn't show up at all.

Can I have a thumbnail and a mask?

Thank you. I hope I explained what I'm looking for clearly.

Kristina

I might need a screenshot to see what you are talking about but if you copy paste a button it is still programmed to the first button's instructions. You'd have to change what the button does after you paste it somewhere: like go to this scene marker and you'd also have to change the thumbnail by exact time code you can get from the timeline in vegas or in the timeline on DVDA.

Try playing with the transparent color on your color set.

Oh yes I have set the destination for every button but it still doesn't appear on the menu pages.

Can you have a mask alongside a text and image button?

Mask as in this? This is a custom mask I use around a custom button.

The red square is the custom highlight/mask.

Yes but my custom Highlight is a clip art heart and I have it in a png format. I want it to be displayed at the end of the text rather than in the actual thumbnail?

I'm not exactly an expert at this but I can't find a way to put an image next to the text unless it's baked into the background, and that can't change dynamically UNLESS you make another menu with that background changed to have the heart next to that text.

This is what I did with this file with transparency:

Note this was only showing over the thumbnail, not next to the text.

heart with transparency.

This post here may be of some assistance to you, if you want to go with the different menu backgrounds method, what may work for you:

https://www.vegascreativesoftware.info/us/forum/dvda-advanced-menus--126936/#ca789948

Instead of the image of the dog, you could measure and make it hearts and have them where you want them for when each item is highlighted.

EDIT: I had another idea and I changed a file in my mask/s highlight negative and I put a white heart in the place where I'd want it next to text, in the file that shows the shape of the highlight square:

I had to go into the highlight settings and go to "mask" and click the drop down menu and go to "explore containing folder" (note this is for a menu theme already made) and I just changed the middle file that looked like this:

And the white parts there are where the red goes (if you want your selection to be red, it can be any color and any level of transparency). So If I had more time and effort, I could do some nice things here, maybe get rid of the white square so only the heart shows up red, and is less transparent in DVDA.

I had to go to "replace this file with...", for the mask, and choose my modified one with the heart as DVDA was resetting the changes every restart of the program and when I chose the same theme again.

Thank you, your other idea is what I want to do . How did you do that?

Kristina

I took a pre made menu template and modified it. I looked at the files for it and modified the mask png. In the folder it had 3 pictures and one xml file. One for the background, one for what the highlight mask should be and I'm not sure what the third one is for.

I found the mask I needed to change by going to "explore containing folder" when selecting the drop down menu for changing the mask.

It should be black and white. The white will be the mask's design.

Hi.

I've done it. Thankyou so much for your help. I have burnt a copy and it all works.

I have special discs with labels on for people. What is the best reliable burner? Using dvd architect or imgburn or something else? I don't want the burn to fail as the blu ray discs are not rewritable.

Thank you

Kristina