Question about DVDA workflow

kunal wrote on 11/22/2005, 10:39 PM

So I used DVDA 2.0b to prepare and burn a DVD, realized that the volume was too low, went back to Vegas, increased the volume, rendered the audio to a .ac3, overwrote the previously existing .ac3 file (which was being used by the current DVDA project) and started DVDA, only to find that the DVDA project does not play with the audio this time -- it's just as if the audio is muted. (The .ac3 file is still visible and included in the project hierarchy)

Any idea why this happened? I had to re-do the DVDA project from scratch again (fortunately it wasn't too big, so it wasn't an issue) but what's the general workflow here? When you do changes to your source files (mpeg-2 video/.ac3 audio) how do you incorporate these into your existing DVDA project?

Thanks,
Kunal.

Comments

Sidecar wrote on 11/26/2005, 7:52 PM
When I get troubles with DVDA, I delete the .sfk files. These are the files Vegas and DVDA generate to show the audio peaks and picture thumbnails on the timeline.

I run into problems with DVDA when I build a DVD using a .m2v file instead of a .mpg video file. These files are the DVD-compliant elementary stream encode output. DVDA won't take them directly unless I rename them with a .mpg suffix. Then, weirdly, if I close DVDA and reopen it, the picture is squeezed (pillarboxed). If I delete the .sfk files and let DVDA rebuilt the thumbnail timeline, it works again.

Don't know if it'll solve your problem, but it's something to try.
B.Verlik wrote on 11/26/2005, 9:27 PM
I think you just have to wait and learn from your mistakes. You have to sort of map it out in your mind first and import everything into DVD-A in the correct order. As soon as you start deleting things, or trying to switch their orders, you may think you've corrected it and find out, after lots of work, that somethings not right. That's why I always say to start over fresh if you mess something up.
If you make a new ac3 file, delete the old one before you make a new one with the same name. Empty recycle bin too. Then render new ac3 and put in original folder. It should work this way. You won't have to do anything with DVD-A, it will import the new ac3, as long as it has the same name it had.
EDIT: I forgot to add, you can exchange files by 'X'ing out the audio, in menu and replacing it with a new one, that will work too.