Understanding DVDA

cheroxy wrote on 12/6/2003, 12:05 PM
I have the following question about DVDA that I can't seem to get an answer to it from the manual or searching this forum. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

1-RE: looped motion menus: Vegas is amazing at not ever doing any redundant rendering, but it seems that DVDA does. For example, if I make a DVD with 5 different menu/submenu pages, render (aka prepare), go back change one of the five menus, it will rerender everything again.
Am I missing something in preferences so that it won't do that, or am I wrong and it doesn't do any unnecessary rerendering?
It would be nice if it would see that the main menu and all but one of the submenus are still the same so that it only renders the one changed submenu.

2-If I make a DVD and have the "preparation" saved under:
C:\Documents and Settings\Calderwood Family.DESKTOP\Local Settings\Temp\My DVD\Project xand next time make another folder in the My DVD folder called \project y\ where I save that "preparation" to, will I be able to just click on burn and tell it to go burn that DVD I already made, either x or y? I would like to have a few of the various DVD's I have made on my HD and choose which one I burn without having to import anything from a disc. Is what I stated above the best way to do it, or is there another way?

Thanks, I hope these aren't too confusing.
Carson



PS - I like the little asterix that appears on the very top after "x-project - Sony DVD Architect 1.0*" when there has been a change to the project and you haven't saved. Never noticed it until today, pretty cool!

Comments

Udi wrote on 12/6/2003, 10:18 PM
1 - Vegas will render the project each time you "prepare" the project. It does not support partial rendering of changes only. Even with no changes, if you select prepare - all will be renderred again.

2 - Yes, if you save/keep a prepared directory you can burn it any time.

Udi
kameronj wrote on 12/7/2003, 11:02 AM
I would answer your questions...but Udi hit them right on the head - so there is nothing too much more to say.

Way to go Udi.
cheroxy wrote on 12/7/2003, 11:18 AM
Thanks a million. Maybe I'll put that in on the suggestion page.