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Ron Cooper · December 2nd, 2008, 05:46 PM

Thanks again Mark, - much appreciated. I'm sure when I get going it will be OK but it all seems very confusing at the moment, and, as usual with me, I'm always fighting time. I'm actually doing this for a wonderful elderly friend & mentor whose birthday is tomorrow and some of the footage of his lectures go back over 15 yrs.

Thanks for the tips on chapter markers, that (!), would have flawed me! It was easy to load the markers (thanks to you), & all is well, no ! marks. I notice that the "JKL" keys (Which I really like), don't work in DVDA - seems odd.
Regarding play menus etc. I haven't made any specific files or clips for these but can you copy a small section from the DVDA timeline & use these for play menus?

However, in view of my time pressure I have a plan B where I can simply burn a DVD from the V8 timeline directly to a stand alone hardware recorder in case I don't get this "proper" DVD done today. I will keep working on it anyhow as I am determined to learn this thing.

Now another question arises, - can I feed a firewire output directly from the V8 timeline without having to produce an AVI file first? I used to do this in Premiere and it was excellent as whatever you saw from the timeline was outputted to the firewire and fed directly into the recorder without having to make a large AVI file first .

RonC.

December 2nd, 2008, 05:46 PM	#8
Ron Cooper Major Player Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Sydney, Australia Posts: 219	Thanks again Mark, - much appreciated. I'm sure when I get going it will be OK but it all seems very confusing at the moment, and, as usual with me, I'm always fighting time. I'm actually doing this for a wonderful elderly friend & mentor whose birthday is tomorrow and some of the footage of his lectures go back over 15 yrs. Thanks for the tips on chapter markers, that (!), would have flawed me! It was easy to load the markers (thanks to you), & all is well, no ! marks. I notice that the "JKL" keys (Which I really like), don't work in DVDA - seems odd. Regarding play menus etc. I haven't made any specific files or clips for these but can you copy a small section from the DVDA timeline & use these for play menus? However, in view of my time pressure I have a plan B where I can simply burn a DVD from the V8 timeline directly to a stand alone hardware recorder in case I don't get this "proper" DVD done today. I will keep working on it anyhow as I am determined to learn this thing. Now another question arises, - can I feed a firewire output directly from the V8 timeline without having to produce an AVI file first? I used to do this in Premiere and it was excellent as whatever you saw from the timeline was outputted to the firewire and fed directly into the recorder without having to make a large AVI file first . RonC.