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Sony Vegas Movie Studio Platinum 9 – Frustrated :(
I have 2 days of my 3 day trial left- to decide if I want to purchase this program and I am so frustrated I can’t see straight 🙁
I have a LOT of AVCHD video from a recent 2 wk vacation. Taken from a Canon HG10.
I finally was able to get ONE DVD burned by by-passing the DVD Architect Studio and saving it to my HD. Then burning it to dvd with another program.
This is a round-about way of doing it, but I couldn’t get to to burn any other way. This at least had changed the format from .mts to .avi and the main thing was- I wanted to see how the video looked before I purchased it.
Please keep in mind- I am VERY new to this stuff.
Last night I was trying to work on another piece. I got it all ready to burn and I must have hit something I shouldn’t have because no matter WHAT I do- it will *only* save a few seconds of the video. I have even shut down and restarted the whole project and I only get this little tiny clip 🙁
Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong? I want this to work- the picture was GREAT but if I cannot get it to save a whole video- it’s pretty useless to me 🙁
Thank you in advance.
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Figured it out! Sure wish I’d found it last night LOL … I was up till 4:30 a.m. trying!!
Thank you!
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You may have select the render option to: Render loop region only. This would cause a small render if you have a small region looped. Check the options on the Render As… window and see if this is checked. If so, uncheck it.
~jr
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.Thank you SO much! Yes, that is what I did 🙂
Another quick question… How can I tell how much video I can fit onto a DVD? For right now, I am just wanting to SEE these video’s and will go back and add my transitions & all the fun stuff later when I have more time and after I have actually purchased the program.
I am confused though, because the one DVD I burned, as I look in properties at it’s size- it says it is 18.9 GB but the DVD only holds 4.7 GB or 120 min On the DVD, it says length is 01:29:23
The whole video IS on the DVD & I have played it on a DVD player to watch on our TV.
The one I have going now- the left upper corner of the timeline says 01:43:08;29 I assumed this was the length? Is this 1 hour 43 minutes etc? And if so, why will it not save to my HD- telling me it may not fit in the place I want to put it?
I have actually removed some clips to bring it to the exact size the last one was- and still it says it may not fit?
Sorry if I sound ignorant but… I *am* where this is concerned 😉
Thank you so much!
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[i]The one I have going now- the left upper corner of the timeline says 01:43:08;29 I assumed this was the length? Is this 1 hour 43 minutes etc? And if so, why will it not save to my HD- telling me it may not fit in the place I want to put it? [/i]
What format are you trying to save it to the HD as? .avi video needs a minimum of 13GB per hour or footage and usually much ,more for it to actually work.[i]
I am confused though, because the one DVD I burned, as I look in properties at it’s size- it says it is 18.9 GB but the DVD only holds 4.7 GB or 120 min On the DVD, it says length is 01:29:23 [/i]
A single layer DVD will only hold about 70 minutes of MPEG 2 material (the language of DVDs) at what is arguably decent quality 6-8,000,000)So if you got moore than 70 minutes then your program must have automatically reduced the bit rate to fit it onto the DVD. You can actually get several hours on a DVD but you wouldn’t want to watch it.:(. You should probably try to limit your DVDs to less than 70 minutes and make mutiple DVDs if necessary. Or use double layer DVDs – but thats another can of worms. -
> Another quick question… How can I tell how much video I can fit onto a DVD?
You can fit about 80 minutes at the standard bit rate. After that you have to reduce the quality or use a double-layer DVD.
> I am confused though, because the one DVD I burned, as I look in properties at it’s size- it says it is 18.9 GB but the DVD only holds 4.7 GB or 120 min On the DVD, it says length is 01:29:23
18.9GB sounds like the size of the source AVI file. DVD Architect will take your source and convert it to MPEG2 which is quite smaller.
> The one I have going now- the left upper corner of the timeline says 01:43:08;29 I assumed this was the length? Is this 1 hour 43 minutes etc?
Yes that’s 1 hr, 43 minutes, 8 seconds, and 9 frames to be exact. 😉
> And if so, why will it not save to my HD- telling me it may not fit in the place I want to put it?
How are you saving it? If you are rendering to an AVI file then, as Terry said, DV and HDV are 13GB per hour. You will need about 23GB of free disc space for a 1 hr 43 minute file.
~jr
http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasst.com
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