Is DVD Authoring in the VSP File?

gordonwd · Post by **gordonwd** » Tue Jan 31, 2006 10:58 pm

In VS9, when you create your DVD, you go through the Wizard steps to create the chapters and menus, etc. before creating the ISO file or burning the disc. Do all your settings then get saved in the project's VSP file? I re-opened a project for a DVD that I recently made, but when I went to create the DVD again, all of my previous work was gone and I had to re-do it all from scratch. Is this normal?

Post by **Ken Berry** » Wed Feb 01, 2006 5:10 am

'Fraid so. I don't know how the wizard operates as I have never used it. But in the full editor version, once you are in the burning module, the only way to save your menu and chapter settings is very klutzy. After making the menu and chapters, you have to close the burning module, at which point you will be asked if you want to save your work. Answer yes. Then when you re-open the burning module, you can restart your project and all your menu and chapter settings should be there. After burning your disc or ISO/Video_TS folder, and closing your burning module, you will be asked the same question, but I find it safer to save the project earlier than that in case something goes wrong in the burn and the program freezes -- which will mean you won't be given the chance to save the settings.

Trevor Andrew · Post by **Trevor Andrew** » Wed Feb 01, 2006 8:55 am

Hi Ken

I agree with the fact that you can save your burner settings menu and all by saving the Vsp file.

But at no point does my program give me the option to save when I close the burner module.

Only when I attempt to close the vsp from the main edit window I am prompted to save.

Please confirm that your program does automatically attempt to save when closing the burner.

I have the patch installed which may be the difference between our programs.

All the Best
Trevor

gordonwd · Post by **gordonwd** » Wed Feb 01, 2006 1:38 pm

I think it would only prompt you when you close the project -- not the burning dialog. Anyway, I think that the apparent failure to save my chapter/menu settings in my VSP file is somehow related to VS9 crashing when trying to re-open the project to continue editing (see my other post). After repairing my installation, I was able to do some editing and re-create my DVD. I saved my project after creating the ISO file, and I can now re-open the project and they are still there.

In other words, my VS9 crash and DVD menu settings save problems seem to have gone away at the same time.

Post by **Ken Berry** » Wed Feb 01, 2006 8:52 pm

Trevor -- I am currently at my house at the beach and don't have VS on my computer here, so I can't experiment. But as Gordon has just said, there is nothing automatic about the process (which is really the core of my objection to the klutzy way Ulead has set up this aspect of the program). You only get the message when you actively go to close the project and only then are asked whether you want to save it. And it seems to be a separate project from your main VSP one in the editing module -- though I wouldn't swear to that...