Robert Gould
November 19th, 2009, 11:28 AM
Now that I've cleaned up my wacky rendering problem, I'm ready to put my project to DVD. But I need to figure out a few things about DVD Architect first.
1) I want the ability to have optional subtitles (similar to "closed captioning"), but I was reading in another thread that if you make a subtitles file, then DVDA has to create a second set of .VOBs with the subtitles on them. What? I thought subtitles were generated on the fly by the DVD player itself from the .txt file. My main video is 5.1 GB (I'm burning to DVD-9) so if this is the case then I can't subtitle it. Surely that can't be right, is it?
2) I recently formatted my HDD and did fresh installs of Vegas 9 and DVDA 5.0. Now it seems that Vegas won't render out AC3 Pro (and won't give me the ability to build AC3 files with more than 192kb). It says I need to "unlock the plugin". But surely that should have been done when I installed and registered DVDA, right? Any ideas?
3) Since I'm going to be burning to a dual-layer disk, am I able to manually set the point where the DVD "shifts" to the second layer? I know most DVD players have a ~1 second pause when this shift happens, and I'd like to be able to make that happen at a point when the screen is faded to black in the movie, or at least at a point when there's not much happening onscreen.
Thanks in advance for all help.
RG
1) I want the ability to have optional subtitles (similar to "closed captioning"), but I was reading in another thread that if you make a subtitles file, then DVDA has to create a second set of .VOBs with the subtitles on them. What? I thought subtitles were generated on the fly by the DVD player itself from the .txt file. My main video is 5.1 GB (I'm burning to DVD-9) so if this is the case then I can't subtitle it. Surely that can't be right, is it?
2) I recently formatted my HDD and did fresh installs of Vegas 9 and DVDA 5.0. Now it seems that Vegas won't render out AC3 Pro (and won't give me the ability to build AC3 files with more than 192kb). It says I need to "unlock the plugin". But surely that should have been done when I installed and registered DVDA, right? Any ideas?
3) Since I'm going to be burning to a dual-layer disk, am I able to manually set the point where the DVD "shifts" to the second layer? I know most DVD players have a ~1 second pause when this shift happens, and I'd like to be able to make that happen at a point when the screen is faded to black in the movie, or at least at a point when there's not much happening onscreen.
Thanks in advance for all help.
RG