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  • Does dvd arch 5.2 recompress If i render out of Vegas mpg

    Posted by Don Cobble on November 23, 2011 at 9:11 pm

    new to DVD arch 5.2 – does it re-compress mpg files from Vegas ? or can I render out of Vegas and DVD arch will see all ready rendered and not re-compress?
    What is best to render out to DVD arch?
    project 1920×1080 30P needs to go to wide screen DVD
    as always thank U

    PC
    I7 2.8 Ghz 8GB Ram
    Win 7 Pro 64bit OS
    PNY Quadro 4000

    3-4 TB HD
    Vegas 10 64bit & Vegas 11 64Bit & Adobe Production Premium CS5.5

    Camera
    Sony EX1 shoot in 1920×1080 30P

    Mike Kujbida replied 14 years, 5 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  • Stephen Mann

    November 23, 2011 at 10:22 pm

    I rarely, almost never, let DVDA recompress already compressed media – it will result in a it on the quality.

    When you ecnode your final output in Vegas (in the “Render As” menu) select MPEG as the type and use one of the DVDA templates. You also need to encode the audio as an .ac3 file – using the same root filename.

    Drag the .mpg file into your DVDA Project Overview and the audio *should* load as well. (Though it won’t show up as media in the project overview).

    Steve Mann
    MannMade Digital Video
    http://www.mmdv.com

  • Don Cobble

    November 23, 2011 at 10:53 pm

    Sir Stephen you said “almost never, let DVDA re-compress already compressed media – it will result in a hit on the quality”
    Is there a way from stopping re-compression or is using a DVD Arch template automatically stop re-compression?
    Thank U

    PC
    I7 2.8 Ghz 8GB Ram
    Win 7 Pro 64bit OS
    PNY Quadro 4000

    3-4 TB HD
    Vegas 10 64bit & Vegas 11 64Bit & Adobe Production Premium CS5.5

    Camera
    Sony EX1 shoot in 1920×1080 30P

  • Mike Kujbida

    November 23, 2011 at 11:01 pm

    Use a bitrate calculator to determine optimum encoding settings.
    I prefer the one found at https://www.johncline.com/bitcalc110.zip

    If the video is less than 70 min. long, I use a custom CBR setting of 8,000,000
    Anything longer and I use the numbers that I get from the calculator and do a 2-pass VBR encode to maximize the quality.

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