Warning/Feature request

Rich Reilly wrote on 10/26/2007, 7:55 AM
I often find a need to update or change video/audio while previewing in DVD Architect.
I can open Vegas up, do any editing and render out my new results. or so it seems. Actually, if DVDA is drawing on the assets tah you are updating, the render won't overwrite the files. Fair enough.
But why doesn't Vegas throw up a flag and say something to let you know? It proceeds to pretend to render, albeit often way faster than normal. That's the only indication something's amiss.
That's in the case of AC3 audio. In the case of mpeg 2, it renders but puts a 0000 or something like that at the end. Which means , of course that DVDA will not update to that filename.
Can't we just have the normal daialog box of "This file already exists. Are you sure you want to overwrite it?"

Comments

Cheno wrote on 10/26/2007, 8:02 AM
I think that's a great idea, Rich - it's so nice to be working in Photoshop or After Effects and when updating a file, have that update on the Vegas timeline - but I ran into this very thing 2 days ago in DVDA when I needed to update a file and Vegas wouldn't let me alter because it was in use in DVDA - I would imagine that file overwrites should work the same way between programs -

cheno
rmack350 wrote on 10/26/2007, 8:49 AM
You'll notice that files go offline if Vegas loses the focus. I assume this is how Photoshop is able to edit a file that would otherwise be in use by Vegas.

DVDa probably can't do that, so you'd have to close DVDa.

Rob
Rich Reilly wrote on 10/26/2007, 9:38 AM
I should add that vegas sometimes does ask if you want to overwrite. But when you say yes, it doesn't, just appends the new file with numbers.