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Bear with me on this one…
A friends 50th on the weekend, so Ive downloaded around 130 clips from Youtube with the aim of making a DVD that can be played at the party. Some of the clips are new, some old (and poor audio quality). The disc will me played on a generic DVD player with a 42″ screen.
My plan was to render them using Vegas Pro 9.0, convert them to a DVD using ‘Convert X to DVD’, but there is so many problems along the way….
1. VPro recognises individual files, not folders. Is there a way to get all files opened and rendered in one sequence?
2. ‘Convert X to DVD’ makes the files unrecognisable by VPro, therefore useless.
3. Can VPro ‘moderate’ sound volume (as some clips blast speakers, others only whisper).
4. Lastly, to be reasonably decent video, what would be the optimal render settings? Time isn’t an issue as such.
Hope someone out there can dig what I’m trying to do! All advice and alternative suggestions greatly appreciated.
cheers, toony -
2 Replies
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1. Lasso all of them, import them them into Project Media, lasso again and drag everything to the timeline in preparation for rendering.
If you want them in a specific order, you’ll have to add them to the timeline one at a time.2. I use FreeStudio found at https://www.dvdvideosoft.com/ to convert to mp4 which the newest version of Pro 9 (9.0e) recognizes.
3. Yes. Look up Volume Envelope in the online help file.
4. The render settings are totally dependent on the program length.
I use the bitrate calculator found at https://www.johncline.com/bitcalc110.zip.
If it’s under 70 min., use a custom CBR setting of 8,000,000
Anything longer means switching to VBR mode, entering the length and using the values it gives you.
Stick to 8,000,000 as a Max setting though to ensure maximum compatibility with older and/or cheaper players and blank media. -
Thanks Mike – I appreciate the advice.
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