I use Ulead VideoStudio 8.0. The situation is this:
I have 2 separate projects that have finished edited clips, stills etc say A.vsp and B.vsp.
I open a new project called DVD.vsp and in the Share - Create Disc option, Add the 2 previous VS Projects (A and B) and burn them to DVD. Everything works OK.
I then add some more clips to A.vsp and want to re-burn the DVD. I open
DVD.vsp but the changes to A.vsp don't appear (at least not completely).
Looking at the clip properties, they are correct in that they shows the up
to date state of A.vsp but I don't get the new clips appearing in any
preview and the project length (i.e. how much of the DVD is used etc) reads the same as it did before.
Can anyone tell me if it's possible to get, in this case, my DVD.vsp project to get the latest version of its constituent clips please? Is it something to do with me Adding Projects rather than Adding video files instead?
TIA.
Rog.
Adding more clips to existing DVD
Moderator: Ken Berry
You may be doing things right, but my reading of your post gives me the sense that a step is being skipped.
If you have authored a DVD already, using VS8 to edit an .AVI file and then to render that to .MPEG2, and then (with empty timeline) gone to Share > Create Disk and imported the .MPEG2 file (etc. etc.), then you can hardly "add" something to the original .AVI file and expect everything else to fall in line.
You will have to create a new .AVI file (Share > Create Video file) from the newly-enlarged original, then RErender to create a new .MPEG2 file, and REauthor a new DVD file.
I assume when you refer to *.vsp files you really mean the .AVI and .MPEG files. The VSP files are just digital information files that contain your instructions for the program to carry out.
If you have authored a DVD already, using VS8 to edit an .AVI file and then to render that to .MPEG2, and then (with empty timeline) gone to Share > Create Disk and imported the .MPEG2 file (etc. etc.), then you can hardly "add" something to the original .AVI file and expect everything else to fall in line.
You will have to create a new .AVI file (Share > Create Video file) from the newly-enlarged original, then RErender to create a new .MPEG2 file, and REauthor a new DVD file.
I assume when you refer to *.vsp files you really mean the .AVI and .MPEG files. The VSP files are just digital information files that contain your instructions for the program to carry out.
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rogerwilson
No, I chose the language carefully. I mean I didn't create mpeg files at all. In the Create Disc window I "Add VS Projects", namely the ones that I've called A and B in the example here. When one of these projects is modified, I hoped and expected the changes to be visible in the Create Disc project precisely because they are just configuration and pointer files that reference the (now altered) original video files.
Thanks for your interest.
Rog.
Thanks for your interest.
Rog.
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jchunter_2
Roger,
I guarrantee that you will come to grief by using the SHARE/Add Project. Don't do it. When you try to burn the DVD, you will trigger a well known Video Studio bug that does an unnecessary and LOOOng conversion of the video stream whether or not they are compliant. You will also trigger other bugs.
If you follow the Recommended Procedure (always create a video file of each project, then, with an empty timeline,select the video files for burning to DVD), you will be a happy camper.
To your specific question, you can't change a Read-Only DVD and you can't modify a playable Read/Write DVD - you can only erase it and reburn with modified video files.
I guarrantee that you will come to grief by using the SHARE/Add Project. Don't do it. When you try to burn the DVD, you will trigger a well known Video Studio bug that does an unnecessary and LOOOng conversion of the video stream whether or not they are compliant. You will also trigger other bugs.
If you follow the Recommended Procedure (always create a video file of each project, then, with an empty timeline,select the video files for burning to DVD), you will be a happy camper.
To your specific question, you can't change a Read-Only DVD and you can't modify a playable Read/Write DVD - you can only erase it and reburn with modified video files.
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rwindeyer
I have limited experience in this (also I use MyDVD to burn..) but I think I know what you are talking about. I have found something like this; it seems to be that the file needs to be "refreshed". After you have modified the vsp file, try deleting it from the disc burning module and adding it again. The changes should now be reflected accurately.
By the way, I endorse the advice against burning directly from a vsp file. I render to an avi file (others go for mpeg, that's not a real issue) and then burn, once the computer has assembled a contiguous video file. Saves a lot of problems.
By the way, I endorse the advice against burning directly from a vsp file. I render to an avi file (others go for mpeg, that's not a real issue) and then burn, once the computer has assembled a contiguous video file. Saves a lot of problems.
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rogerwilson
Great responses guys! Thanks!
I have read the "Recommended work flow" (or whatever it is) and I wondered why the step of creating a video file for each project was there rather than simply adding VS projects. I don't like to blindly follow instructions until I understand why it should be done in that specific way.
As for deleting and re-inserting into the timeline, I tried this and it does work OK but of course all the menus disappear as well so it's a start again from scratch. As I'll be modifying the constituent clips to this DVD quite a few times I was looking for the easiest way of doing it which preserved as much as possible (e.g. the menus). It sounds like the creation of the video files will help.
Thanks again.
Rog.
I have read the "Recommended work flow" (or whatever it is) and I wondered why the step of creating a video file for each project was there rather than simply adding VS projects. I don't like to blindly follow instructions until I understand why it should be done in that specific way.
As for deleting and re-inserting into the timeline, I tried this and it does work OK but of course all the menus disappear as well so it's a start again from scratch. As I'll be modifying the constituent clips to this DVD quite a few times I was looking for the easiest way of doing it which preserved as much as possible (e.g. the menus). It sounds like the creation of the video files will help.
Thanks again.
Rog.
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rwindeyer
Reasons for rendering to a video file first:
Think of your vsp file as a simple set of jotted instructions (we want to use the first half of this clip, the second half of that clip, with these transitions, etc etc. When you execute the RENDER command, you are asking the computer to go fetch all the data from many scattered sources and assemble it into one straight line. That's resource-intensive. If you also ask it to burn, you are saying "by the way, while you're doing that, change the thing into mpeg format and ship it out to this DVD here..."
It has been found by many members of this forum that this is akin to overloading the computer. It certainly can work, but bits of data can get dropped along the way, audio/video sync problems can develop, and the whole process can just crash.
By rendering first, you give the computer one thing to do at a time. As I said, I personally prefer to keep the format the same as I am working in (avi); I can then run the file to make sure that the assembly process worked. It is then comparatively easy for the computer to scan the file, transform it into a VBR mpeg, and burn to DVD.
Hope that helps.
Think of your vsp file as a simple set of jotted instructions (we want to use the first half of this clip, the second half of that clip, with these transitions, etc etc. When you execute the RENDER command, you are asking the computer to go fetch all the data from many scattered sources and assemble it into one straight line. That's resource-intensive. If you also ask it to burn, you are saying "by the way, while you're doing that, change the thing into mpeg format and ship it out to this DVD here..."
It has been found by many members of this forum that this is akin to overloading the computer. It certainly can work, but bits of data can get dropped along the way, audio/video sync problems can develop, and the whole process can just crash.
By rendering first, you give the computer one thing to do at a time. As I said, I personally prefer to keep the format the same as I am working in (avi); I can then run the file to make sure that the assembly process worked. It is then comparatively easy for the computer to scan the file, transform it into a VBR mpeg, and burn to DVD.
Hope that helps.