Trouble getting started

pal3540 wrote on 12/30/2008, 12:08 PM

I have produced a movie made up of 42 clips in Vegas 8 Platinum and sent it to DVD Architecture 4.5. If I choose a menu based project all 42 clips can be included, but that means I have 42 sub-menus and I don't want that, I'm looking for perhaps 2. If I choose a Single Movie project all I can include is one clip, but I have 42.
HELP!

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Terry Esslinger wrote on 12/30/2008, 1:18 PM

Go back to Vegas.
PLace all your clips on a time line and render as one clip. Render as DVDA Mainconcept MPEG2 stream and a second render as AC3 for the audio.
Then drop the MPEG into a single movie in DVDA. The audio will fiollow if they were named the same and were in the same folder. You will have one auto play, no menu DVD. You can add markers to the single movie to make chapter s if you so desire.

pal3540 wrote on 1/3/2009, 1:12 AM

Thanks for that Terry. I think I'm getting there, but can't be sure just yet. The reason is that whilst my movie has indeed appeared in DVDA, I now want to place what Sony call an Introduction Media, a graphic that shows as soon as the DVD is placed in a player. I have followed the instructions - "Use the Insert Introduction Media option to choose a media file that you want to use as your DVD start item.

You could use introduction media to add copyright information or a corporate logo that is displayed before your DVD content begins.

Select an object in the Project Overview window.

Click the down arrow next to the Insert Object button and choose Introduction Media .

The Introduction Media is displayed as a in the Project Overview window" but I can't find any Introduction Media, so where is it?

Sorry to be such a burden - don't get old!

TOG62 wrote on 1/3/2009, 1:48 AM

The Introduction Media is a, usually short, piece of video you create to display before the menu appears. You would normally create this is your video editing program, such as Vegas.

To see it you need to preview the disc, rather than the menu.

Mike