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DVD Architect
With my Vegas Movie Studio 9 software was included Sony dvd architect.
Im trying to use Architect to burn a program built on Movie Studio.
The program is 1 hour and 34 minutes long and when rendered to Mpeg1 is 1,336,485 KB.
When rendered to Mpeg2 it is 4,313,686 KB.When I add the Mpeg2 render to Architect it warns that the file is 4.7GB – and too big to proceed. So I removed it from Architect and added the Mpeg1 render.
When that Mpeg1 render is added to Architect, there is a warning that the file is 6GB !!!!
Ive tried every option possible including custom combinations in an attempt to get a smaller file that Architect will accept.
Can someone please explain:
1 Why Architect might read the 1,336,485 KB file as “6GB”?
2 Is there a way to get a much smaller file than the 4.7GB of the Mpeg2 render?I hope someone can shed some light on this please.
kind regards
Colin
Colin
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DVD Architect has a long history of incorrectly reporting file sizes.
Try ignoring the warnings and proceed anyway.
Odds are that it will do the prepare/burn just fine. -
1 Why Architect might read the 1,336,485 KB file as “6GB”?
Because MPEG-1 is not permissible on a DVD so DVD Architect is telling you that it must re-encode it as MPEG-2 and this is how big it will eventually be.
2 Is there a way to get a much smaller file than the 4.7GB of the Mpeg2 render?
Use a lower bit-rate. A standard DVD can hold about 1 hr 20 minutes of video at an average bit-rate of 6Mbps. You are over that limit at 1 hr 34 minutes. Unfortunately, Movie Studio doesn’t allow you to create custom templates to change the bit-rate.
I believe that the “Make Movie” button handles all of this for you and renders to AVI so that DVD Architect can optimize the video to fit in on the disc. Sorry I don’t have Movie Studio (I use Vegas Pro) but this was my impression of what Make Movie does (i.e., take all the guess work out and simply make a DVD for you) Or you can manually render to a DV AVI file and use that in DVD Architect and it will fit it on the disc.
~jr
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Hello John and thank you.
How awesome that you should reply so quickly with such valuable clearly expressed info. THank you.
How amazing is the internet 🙂Ive tried rendering to AVI – the only option it seems is “Video for Windows(*.AVI)”
Is this what you would use? because that gives me a file 22GB in size. Is there another AVI option I dont see?many thanks.
Colin
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oh ok – thank you Mike.
and thank you for responding.
How awesome is the internet 🙂kind regards
Colin
Colin
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Ive tried rendering to AVI – the only option it seems is “Video for Windows(*.AVI)” Is this what you would use? because that gives me a file 22GB in size. Is there another AVI option I dont see?
That’s the one. The 22GB AVI file will be converted to MPEG2 by DVD Architect and it will use the correct bit-rate so that it all fits on a DVD.
If your video is 16:9 widescreen pick the PAL or NTSC DV Widescreen template and if your video is standard 4:3 then select the PAL or NTSC DV template. You would choose PAL or NTSC based on what country you plan to view the video. US and Japan are NTSC, almost everywhere else in the world is PAL (except France which is SECAM but we won’t go there) 😉
~jr
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Hello again John
my apologies for ‘disappearing’ last night. I thought later that I should have said Im heading to bed – sorry.Thank you again for persevering with this.
Im in Brisbane Australia so use the PAL system.
The PAL DV template is the “Video for Windows (*.AVI)” that I mentioned which has as its specifications:Audio: 48,000 Hz, 16 Bit, Stereo, PCM Uncompressed.
Video: 25 fps, 720×576, Lower field first.
Pixel Aspect Ratio: 1.093. OpenDML compatible.
PAL DV video files compatible with Sony Video Capture.and gives me a 22GB render. 🙁
is this a limitation of Movie Studio I wonder?
regards
Colin
Colin
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and gives me a 22GB render. 🙁
Great! That’s exactly what you want. Now drop this 22GB file into DVD Architect and when you Burn it will convert it to an MPEG2 that fits on a DVD.
~jr
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Oh? I thought I needed a file under 4.7GB.
ok cool! 🙂
thanks John.
Ill give it a go.Many thanks again.
Cheers
Colin
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Oh? I thought I needed a file under 4.7GB.
Nope. You can feed DVD Architect pretty much anything and it will convert it to fit on a DVD. Most people like to give it MPEG2 files so that it doesn’t have to convert, but since Movie Studio won’t allow you to adjust the bit-rate, you can just have DVD Architect do the MPEG2 encoding for you from the high quality AVI file.
~jr
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Hello John
thanks again for your support.In the end Architect DID compress the file as you said.
I was attempting to put two titles on that disk but together they were 5.2GB (too big) so I settled for one and it worked just as you said. An awesome relief. 🙂Now… onto the next project..
it never rains but pours.Im importing a 640mb AVI to Vegas Movie Studio Platinum 9.
Everything was fine until I tidied up a few squillion files that Id inadvertently made on the previous project you just helped me with.
In tidying up I may have thrown something out because (even tho it wasnt this project) I can only import and see the Audio component on the time line. No video.Ive checked the AVI file – it still has both audio and vision components, and Ive reinstalled Movie Studio in case Id deleted a codec in error but still no good – and no video component.
any suggestions please?
kind regards
colin
Colin
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