Using Markers To Create Menu Items in DVD Arch

surfdude wrote on 10/13/2008, 1:18 PM

I'm new to this software, so please forgive me if I'm asking the obvious.

Object: Create markers in Vegas to be used as Menu items in DVD Architech.

1) I've created a movie and rendered it as a *wmv in Vegas Movie Studio 9 and saved the markers with the file.

2) When I import the movie into DVD Architect, the "Load Markers" button is ghosted out.

The manual says "Markers don't apply to video/audio compilations".

Does this mean I have to render each movie scene (marked portion) individually in Vegas and load them individually into DVD Arch or can it be done all at once?

Thanx

Comments

Terry Esslinger wrote on 10/13/2008, 2:37 PM

Did you choose to do a menu based move when you opened DVDA?

Chienworks wrote on 10/13/2008, 3:01 PM

Why WMV? DVDs *have to* be MPEG2. It's possible that DVDA isn't even contemplating looking for markers in a WMV file so it's not offering to use them. Try rendering to MPEG2 and see if the markers show up then. It's a much better way to go anyway since DVDA would have converted WMV to MPEG2 at a possibly substantial quality loss.

surfdude wrote on 10/13/2008, 11:45 PM

I figured it out and everything works fine now.

I didn't see the combo box above the monitor screen that lets you switch back and forth between the main menu screen and the timeline of the imported movie(s). Once I got that open I could see the markers were all there. I used cntrl-c to copy the buttons and the Main Properties Panel to change their targets.

Thanx for the help.