Missing bits in DVD Architect project rendered to DVD

[nzo]

This is a multi-media PAL DVD project, produced in Vegas 6, encoded in CCE and assembled and rendered to DVD in DVDA.

1
Instead of a graceful "The End" and fade-to-black, the main movie ends suddenly and chops off the last second or two containing the ending text and fade. The proper ending sequence is visible in both Vegas and DVDA but not in the DVD (not yet burned and still on my hard drive). Using WinDVD to view the DVD.

2
In the last half of the DVD there is a music compilation of 8 tracks, each with its own accompanying image. One of these track images is missing on the rendered DVD, though it's visible in Vegas and DVDA.

I've tried several renders to DVD but the faults remain. Any ideas about what could be going on?

Much appreciation for your help ~ John

[jtoolman2000]

I have had exactly the problem you describe in #1. What I ended up doing was to add about 5 seconds of "Black" to the end of the editied video using Vega's Media Generator. I then re-erendered and for whatever the reason in turned out fine. The black created a small buffer at the end in case some error did occur.

Maybe not exactly what you experienced in #2 but I did a small compilation of Images and music in the following way. I just created a video of the images in vegas, each image was time streched to fit each audio track I loaded under them. Then I rendered as a single video.

[nzo]

Thanks jtoolman2000.

I managed to track down both faults.

(1) was probably due to the right-hand yellow 'Set Out Marker' in the video timeline of DVDA being positioned slightly leftward of the video's end. I must have moved it accidentally at some stage. I haven't tested this with a new render to see if it was the culprit.

(2) was a contrast setting in my WinDVD player that was set to slightly higher than its default centre position. The graphic b/g image for that track was already fairly pale and the added contrast was enough to burn-out the image to 'white'.

I live and learn Thanks for replying.

[nzo]

Yup...moving the 'Set Out Marker' to the far right (the end of the movie) worked like a charm. Silly me