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[KenRoy]

Hi everyone,

When creating slideshows in VideoWave, what is the best Output As option to use to create Video File so that when I build the DVD, it will not need to be rendered again?

If I choose Purpose as DVD Playback and MPEG-2 for DVD, best quality, will MyDVD render the intermediate video files created as slideshows?

TIA for your answers.

[james_hardin]

Best option is "Save As" which will save a dmsm file. This is a set of notes about the details of your project.

Open MyDVD and when you click Add Title, select the dmsm file.

[malatekid]

James' suggestion above using the dmsm file in MyDVD leads to creation of a disc image (iso file) or dvd-video folder. You can use that iso file or video-folder as many times as you want to burn the project to dvd disc using Disc Copier.

Edited by malatekid, 30 November 2006 - 10:37 AM.

[KenRoy]

malatekid, on Nov 30 2006, 07:16 AM, said:

James' suggestion above using the dmsm file in MyDVD leads to creation of a disc image (iso file) or dvd-video folder. You can use that iso file or video-folder as many times as you want to burn the project to dvd disc using Disc Copier.

PS: I changed the topic title per your request and I deleted your subsequent duplicate post.

OK, maybe I am not expressing myself correctly.  I have created a half dozen VideoWave dmsm projects that I now want to combine into a DVD as multiple chapters.  I am building a new project that includes the 6 or more VideoWave sub-projects.  How do I avoid, myDVD re-rendering the intermediate project files?  What is the Output As option that will allow me to do that?

Thanks.

[james_hardin]

KenRoy, on Nov 30 2006, 10:53 AM, said:

OK, maybe I am not expressing myself correctly.  I have created a half dozen VideoWave dmsm projects that I now want to combine into a DVD as multiple chapters.  I am building a new project that includes the 6 or more VideoWave sub-projects.  How do I avoid, myDVD re-rendering the intermediate project files?  What is the Output As option that will allow me to do that?

Thanks.

There isn't any! Output As always renders. That is what it is there for.

malatekid has more experience at this than I so I think he can  explain how to get multiple projects to behave as chapters.

The possibility exists that the software is not going to do what you want or exactly the way you want it to do it. I have never seen any software that could meet that goal…

[KenRoy]

james_hardin, on Nov 30 2006, 09:01 AM, said:

There isn't any! Output As always renders. That is what it is there for.

malatekid has more experience at this than I so I think he can  explain how to get multiple projects to behave as chapters.

The possibility exists that the software is not going to do what you want or exactly the way you want it to do it. I have never seen any software that could meet that goal…

So there is no way to create intermediate video files that can be brought into a DVD project without having to re-render the whole thing again.  Bummer.  if it takes 4 hours to render a 12 minute video segment, how long is it going to take to render the whole DvD.  Yes, I know it has to do with CPU speed, memory, and video card.

I was hoping there was a way to create intermediate files that would be recognized as DVD video grade and just added to the DVD.

Thanks for your response.  If someone knows otherwise, please let me know.

[malatekid]

Ok, let me understand what you are trying to do.

By the way, I have EMC9 (and not V8). But from my understanding most of the things I gonna discuss below should be true for V8.

You have a couple of Videowave productions and that you want to create a video out of each one (Output As)? If so, MPEG-2 for DVD is the correct option. This should make it DVD compliant.

Now you want to include those video clips (or maybe a coouple of them) to create your MyDVD project, right? In my experience with a couple of projects I already finished, unless you have done major edits to the videos themselves, those videos will not longer be re-rendered during the burning process as they are already DVD compliant. That should shorten the burning time to create the disc image/video-folder. Is this the goal?

We have discussions here in the forum regarding chapter creation, creating Play All or Scene Selection buttons. Please do a search.

Do come back and let us know how it goes.

[KenRoy]

malatekid, on Nov 30 2006, 09:21 AM, said:

Ok, let me understand what you are trying to do.

By the way, I have EMC9 (and not V8). But from my understanding most of the things I gonna discuss below should be true for V8.

You have a couple of Videowave productions and that you want to create a video out of each one (Output As)? If so, MPEG-2 for DVD is the correct option. This should make it DVD compliant.

Now you want to include those video clips (or maybe a coouple of them) to create your MyDVD project, right? In my experience with a couple of projects I already finished, unless you have done major edits to the videos themselves, those videos will not longer be re-rendered during the burning process as they are already DVD compliant. That should shorten the burning time to create the disc image/video-folder. Is this the goal?

We have discussions here in the forum regarding chapter creation, creating Play All or Scene Selection buttons. Please do a search.

Do come back and let us know how it goes.

Malatekid,

Thanks for your response.  That is exactly the goal.   I will check the chapter creation discussion.

[malatekid]

KenRoy, on Nov 30 2006, 12:34 PM, said:

Malatekid,

Thanks for your response. That is exactly the goal. I will check the chapter creation discussion.

You're welcome.

Please do come back and share your experience. Good luck!

[myguggi]

KenRoy, on Nov 30 2006, 10:53 AM, said:

OK, maybe I am not expressing myself correctly. I have created a half dozen VideoWave dmsm projects that I now want to combine into a DVD as multiple chapters. I am building a new project that includes the 6 or more VideoWave sub-projects. How do I avoid, myDVD re-rendering the intermediate project files? What is the Output As option that will allow me to do that?

Thanks.

I think we need to clear up a bit of terminology. Do you want your 6 or so projects to appear as individual buttons on the main menu pages? If yes, then these are called Titles in EMC terminology and you can add each dmsm project file as a New Title in myDVD. For each dmsm file a button will appear on the main menu page. If this is what you want then there is no need to first use the "Output production to ..." in Videowave. All the rendering will be done in myDVD.

In one of your other posts you state that it takes 4 hours to render a 12 minute segment. If that is not an exageration then there is something wrong with your system. My system is only slightly faster than yours but I just rendered a 12 minute segment to DVD compliant mpeg2 and it required 27 minutes. I am using EMC 7.5 but EMC 8 should not take that much longer.

Edited by myguggi, 30 November 2006 - 12:57 PM.

[REDWAGON]

Would seem to me that if you have several different dmsm videowave files and have saved each of them, why not just go to MyDVD and insert each of them into the program, each with a different chapter or button and then render that entire segment and burn it to an ISO file or to disc. Or am I missing something here ?? And I think this is pretty much what Walt is suggesting.

As far as it taking over 4 hours to render 12 minutes, that MUST be an exageration. No way should it take that long to render a 12 minute segment.



Frank....

[KenRoy]

Walt and Frank,

Thanks for your responses.  I did not realize you could bring multiple VideoWave dmsm files into MyDVD.  Titles is probably what I mean to say.

Walt,
Do you disable your Firewall and AntiVirus when rendering?  I think I forgot to do that, so every picture accessed is probably being scanned for viruses.

[Patty]

KenRoy, on Dec 2 2006, 03:12 PM, said:

Walt and Frank,

Thanks for your responses. I did not realize you could bring multiple VideoWave dmsm files into MyDVD. Titles is probably what I mean to say.

Walt,
Do you disable your Firewall and AntiVirus when rendering? I think I forgot to do that, so every picture accessed is probably being scanned for viruses.

The answer is yes, and also disconnect from the internet, defrag first is a good idea too.

[myguggi]

KenRoy, on Dec 2 2006, 06:12 PM, said:

Walt and Frank,

Thanks for your responses. I did not realize you could bring multiple VideoWave dmsm files into MyDVD. Titles is probably what I mean to say.

Walt,
Do you disable your Firewall and AntiVirus when rendering? I think I forgot to do that, so every picture accessed is probably being scanned for viruses.

I don't always disable my Firewall or AntiVirus when rendering. I always create an iso file before actually burning. I have never seen any difference with the programs enabled or disabled. When I actually do burn the iso file to DVD using Disc Copier, I usually do disable them but sometimes forget

[Patty]

myguggi, on Dec 2 2006, 08:25 PM, said:

I don't always disable my Firewall or AntiVirus when rendering. I always create an iso file before actually burning. I have never seen any difference with the programs enabled or disabled. When I actually do burn the iso file to DVD using Disc Copier, I usually do disable them but sometimes forget

Sorry I jumped in and answered, seemed like quite a bit of time had gone by so I didn't know if you were around.

[myguggi]

Patty, on Dec 2 2006, 11:30 PM, said:

Sorry I jumped in and answered, seemed like quite a bit of time had gone by so I didn't know if you were around.

No problemo I am visiting my sister in Waterloo, Ontario and I don't get as much "computer time" here as I do at home

[KenRoy]

myguggi, on Dec 2 2006, 08:37 PM, said:

No problemo I am visiting my sister in Waterloo, Ontario and I don't get as much "computer time" here as I do at home

The abnormal long time to render a 12 minute mpeg-2 file may have been caused by driver problem.  When I went to install the latest ATI drivers last evening as an attempt to resolve a system crash reboot when adding the 3rd video in MyDVD, I discovered that I was running default monitor drivers.  My previous attempt at installing the ATI drivers had terminated indicating I needed to set my driver to VGA and I couldn't figure out how to do that, but it must have left something amiss.

I re-ran the render this morning and it took 20 minutes.  I did not disable my ZoneAlarm Internet Suite nor shutdown my Internet connection.

When I try to import dmsm files into MyDVD, however it fails with an 80004005 error code. (See my other post).  As long as I can render the files in VideoWave and then add movie in MyDVD and it not re-render the output, I should be in business