Trying to import a theme from DVDA 7 to DVDAS 5

karen-a wrote on 2/1/2021, 11:01 AM

I was having trouble with memory, since DVDA 7 has a cutoff at 2GB, so I switched to DVDAS 5 at the tip of someone here - much better! But the series of Blurays I've been creating has been using a theme that isn't available in DVDAS 5 called Lightrays. Any way to import it/copy it into the right folder for DVDAS 5 to recognize? I tried manually copying it from one to the other by pasting it in DVDAS 5's folder: AppData > Roaming > Sony > DVDAS > 5.0 > Themes, but the program isn't picking it up upon restarting. Is there a way to do this?

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EricLNZ wrote on 2/1/2021, 2:48 PM

You probably need to add it as a User Theme. Try including the theme items to your project by manually adding them after navigating to them. Then save the theme. It might be easy to add them to a new blank project to create the theme without upsetting your main project.

karen-a wrote on 2/1/2021, 4:45 PM

You probably need to add it as a User Theme. Try including the theme items to your project by manually adding them after navigating to them. Then save the theme. It might be easy to add them to a new blank project to create the theme without upsetting your main project.

I'll definitely give that a try, but it's actually a different project each time (I'm dealing of hundreds of videos; home video gig). So if there was an easier way to copy a theme from 7 over to 5 I was hoping to find it. Thanks for your help!

Former user wrote on 2/1/2021, 5:02 PM

Try copying it to PROGRAM FILES (x86)>Sony>DVD Architect (your version no.)>THEMES.

karen-a wrote on 2/2/2021, 9:29 AM

Try copying it to PROGRAM FILES (x86)>Sony>DVD Architect (your version no.)>THEMES.


Just tried, didn't work. Looks like the files there are .thm files, and the ones in the DVDA7 folders are folders in and of themselves. I also tried zipping it and renaming it as a .thm file, but it still didn't recognize it.

Former user wrote on 2/2/2021, 9:32 AM

I don't have 7 so I am not sure how the themes have changed. Sorry.

EricLNZ wrote on 2/2/2021, 8:37 PM

Let's clarify as I'm confused. With 7 the themes are in a '.thm' folder which contains the buttons, arrows etc. How are they arranged in DVDAS 5?

karen-a wrote on 2/2/2021, 8:41 PM

It seems to be mainly the same thing, except to change it from a regular folder like in 7, I needed to zip it and rename it with an extension of '.thm' instead of '.zip' in order to get the same icon. But that still didn't work.

EricLNZ wrote on 2/3/2021, 4:43 AM

Why not just copy the 'thm' folder from 7 to 5?

Mine are found here

Dexcon wrote on 2/3/2021, 4:54 AM

With DVDA 6, user created themes are stored at C:\Users\user name\AppData\Roaming\Sony\DVD Architect Pro\6.0\UserThemes - (no spacing with UserThemes). User saved themes are also .thm files but don’t (for me) contain any buttons, titles etc – only the background is saved – it’s a .thm file not a thm folder like the default themes.  I thought that buttons, titles, etc used to be saved with ‘save theme’ around 9 years ago, so today I pulled out an old computer from the era but to no avail because I then realised that the HDD had been replaced because the original C drive HD had failed 4 or 5 years ago.

Looking at Create Custom Themes under the Themes chapter in DVDA 6’s user manual, it seems that everything like buttons and titles should be saved, but I haven’t found that to be the case since around 2014.  In fact, I have had to create an Excel database to list ‘Transformations’ data for every title on every menu and sub-menu for each DVDA project so that the menus can be recreated in the future if need be.

The user manual also pointed out that adapting an existing DVDA theme was possible via XML editing and ZIPping - I've never tried that because I wanted to create my own menus, not adapt the defaults.

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karen-a wrote on 2/3/2021, 10:40 AM

Why not just copy the 'thm' folder from 7 to 5?

Mine are found here

That worked!! They're also located in other regular folders, I didn't find this folder of .thm files before. Thanks so much!