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Niall Megahey · November 20th, 2008, 02:06 PM

The wedding that im doing at the moment requires that i have the whole day and also a 15 to 20min highlight edit. Here's my problem. I’ve rendered each section separately and have them linked together in DVDA. For example the morning end action, is set to the church and so on for the main edit. For the highlight i want to use some of the same clips but put them in a different order. Is this possible or would i have to bring the same files in again?

Don Bloom · November 20th, 2008, 05:20 PM

if I understand your question correctly my question to you is why not edit the highlight in your NLE and then bring that in after rendering to the proper bitrate. DVDA is anything but an editor.
My workflow is to edit each section of the wedding seperately in Vegas. Then I render each section to AVI, stitch all the AVIs together in Vegas, figure out my bitrate and then render each section to MPG and AC3. Now when I bring them into DVDA everything is done except to set the end actions to point to the proper section of the video.
In case you're wondering why I render to AVI first it makes it very easy to make any changes that might have to be done later and I don't have to rerender the entire project since DVDA has 'smart render' it will only render and prepare the new version.
HTHs
Don

November 20th, 2008, 02:06 PM	#1
Niall Megahey Regular Crew Join Date: May 2007 Location: Ireland Posts: 96	DVDA question The wedding that im doing at the moment requires that i have the whole day and also a 15 to 20min highlight edit. Here's my problem. I’ve rendered each section separately and have them linked together in DVDA. For example the morning end action, is set to the church and so on for the main edit. For the highlight i want to use some of the same clips but put them in a different order. Is this possible or would i have to bring the same files in again?

November 20th, 2008, 05:20 PM	#2
Don Bloom Inner Circle Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Chicago, IL Posts: 6,609	if I understand your question correctly my question to you is why not edit the highlight in your NLE and then bring that in after rendering to the proper bitrate. DVDA is anything but an editor. My workflow is to edit each section of the wedding seperately in Vegas. Then I render each section to AVI, stitch all the AVIs together in Vegas, figure out my bitrate and then render each section to MPG and AC3. Now when I bring them into DVDA everything is done except to set the end actions to point to the proper section of the video. In case you're wondering why I render to AVI first it makes it very easy to make any changes that might have to be done later and I don't have to rerender the entire project since DVDA has 'smart render' it will only render and prepare the new version. HTHs Don