Question about DVDA workflow

kunal wrote on 11/23/2005, 11:42 AM
Hi,

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

johnmeyer wrote on 11/23/2005, 12:25 PM
You might press "refresh" next time while clicked on the audio in the DVDA timeline. It may not have actually picked up the audio. This is especially true if you didn't close down DVDA after you overwrote your old AC-3 file.
kunal wrote on 11/23/2005, 12:38 PM
Ah..thanks for the tip..I'll keep that in mind for next time. So ideally, as far as DVDA is concerned, it shouldn't really matter if the audio/video file changed over time for a particular project, right? (as in, an overwritten source
file should not cause DVDA to act as if the source file is not present)
It should just pick-up the latest file w/o any problems, I hope.



johnmeyer wrote on 11/24/2005, 9:24 AM
an overwritten source file should not cause DVDA to act as if the source file is not present

That is correct, but if you do this overwrite while the project is actually open in DVDA, you need to manually refresh DVDA as noted in my previous post, or else close the project and then re-open it.