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I don’t understand
Good Morning.
I am confused right now and I don’t understand. I shot a series or HD clips using the Canon HV30. They look great in the Sony Vegas timeline when played back. I then sent the product to the DVD architect, made a nice menu and clicked on “Make a DVD” I used the DVD widescreen. However when I play this back on the DVD player or my Sony VAIO® LV Series PC/TV All-in-One Computer it looks washed out and not nearly as good as what I have seen others post either online or on DVD. However when I play it back on my HD TV with a DVD that upconverts, it looks pretty good, yet on a regular TV with a Regular DVD player it looks worse then any DVD I’ve ever seen. Is there a way to get this quality on a computer for play back or on DVD. What am I doing wrong.
One more note, when I made a series of clips using a non HD camcorder, the quality almost looks the same when making a DVD and playing back on computer or TV
Sorry this is so long.
Thank you in advance
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First, don’t let DVD-A make your mpg2 file from a Vegas avi. Render the mpg2 from Vegas at the max bitrate size per the bitrate calc according to the videos length.
Charlie
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Thank you for your time. Being new at this I get confused and sometimes the more you read the more lost you get.
So If I have this right, I just render to a 1280x720p, that would play back nicely on a computer, but to make a DVD I have to go down to a NTSC Widescreen to get the best picture right? I went back and printed the answer John R gave me a few weeks ago. But if you use the menu sytem in DVD-A and click “Make a DVD, you may not get the best quality correct? So I guess what I have is the best it will get outside of blueray.Thanks for your assistance
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> But if you use the menu sytem in DVD-A and click “Make a DVD, you may not get the best quality correct?
No. I think Charles was assuming you were letting DVD Architect make the mpeg’s for you. The “Make DVD” button in DVD Architect will use the mpegs that you made if it is DVD compliant. I’m really stumped as to why your DVD would look washed out coming from HD but not from SD. Once you made the mpeg2 file, it is all SD so the DVD should look exactly like the mpeg2 it was made from.
Could it be that the monitor you are using to preview on your computer is not calibrated correctly? That’s the only thing I can think of.
~jr
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Render in Vegas as MainConcept MPEG-2, DVD Arcitecht NTSC Widescreen. Don’t custom.
Then render sound as A3.odd magne nilsen
newbie
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Thank you all for the help and suggestions. Like I stated it gets confusing reading the manual (Which is not all that great anyway) and then going through all the posts online, but the great thing is like everything else we do, we learn from our mistakes, and from others that are more experianced and as we gain that, we can later share our experiance. These forums are great, and again thank you.
I did experiment with different render settings and used your ideas and thoughts, and the end result was stunning on the computer and even the DVD came out really nice this time. It looks like it was all in the settings as you all suggested. It would appear that I used the DV settings instead of the HDV settings. Thanks again and sorry to bother you all with these questions, but you have made my project turn out great.
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