Vegas markers not recognized for avi?

philfort wrote on 7/8/2004, 12:58 AM

I'm under the assumption that markers I create in Vegas should be visible in DVDA2. I'm rendering as ntsc DV-AVI. When I view the media on the timeline in DVDA, the only chapter point is at the beginning "1: Chapter". How do I get the markers I made in Vegas recognized as chapter points?

I'm trying to make a scene selection menu, and want to snap the in/out points for each selection to the markers I made in Vegas.

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mbryant wrote on 7/8/2004, 2:43 AM

Do you you have the box "save project markers with media file" ticked (in the render window)? This needs to be selected.

While it should work with an AVI, is there a reason for not rendering to MPEG in Vegas? The main advantage to this is you don't need to do a re-render of the video in DVDA each time you change a menu. You also have more control over the settings if you need them.

Mark

philfort wrote on 7/8/2004, 9:36 AM

Ooops... I guess I must not have checked that box in Vegas. Thanks!

I figured it was less work to let DVDA render to mpeg, since I have a lot of footage, and I'd have to calculate the right bit-rate to use to make sure to fit it all on a DVD. Whereas I think DVDA will automcatically calculate the highest bitrate that will fit everything?

Does DVDA need to re-render the entire disk when a menu is modified? (In my case though, I'm creating the menus in another program, so I probably won't change them much... and I just put "invisible" buttons on them in DVDA)

mbryant wrote on 7/9/2004, 12:27 AM

Yes if you give DVDA an .avi file as media, it will need to render/compress every time you do “make DVD” (the prepare stage). Even if you have just changed the background in another program.. even if you made no changes to the menus at all. That’s because the video in your project remains the .avi file; the rendered mpeg files are just saved temporarily to create the DVD, they don’t replace the .avi files in your project.

Mark