Downscaling Disaster Advice Please ;(

[Oki Pienandoro]

By comparison, of course DVD will produce a lower quality than blu-ray no matter how you encode.
Thus the real question is, is it the render is awful because a wrong bitrate/target size. Or is it awful subjectively ?

When i’m answering your question, i assume the problem because Encore trying to squeeze a very long complex project (2 hour+) into a single DVD, because you were saying you need to render that into dual layer.
However, knowing that the project was roughly 1,5 hours. It should fit into single layer DVD.

Do a test render (just a couple of minutes footage).
1. Render your AE/Sony Vegas project into 1080p lossless or uncompressed.
2. Put that file in AME, use default preset (MPG-DVD), choose accordingly to your format (PAL/NTSC, Wide/Normal).

Compare the AME render result with your previous awful result in Encore.
If the quality roughly the same, i’m afraid there’s nothing much to do. That is how DVD video look.

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Sorry for the english, not native speaker.

[Farhan Ali]

@Jeff Pulera, I’m really sorry for the late reply.

The total duration of all the motion menu including transitions is 2 minute 45 seconds. Within the motion menu there are 2 still menus; one for home where there will be two buttons and anther for “special features” so numerous buttons.

I tried searching for “MPEG-2 DVD” for rendering settings but only found the following:-

Can you please tell me which render setting to opt for.

Thanks

[Jeff Pulera]

DVD Architect DVD Widescreen (NTSC or PAL as appropriate)

Thanks

Jeff Pulera
Safe Harbor Computers

[Farhan Ali]

@Jeff Pulera,

DVD Architect PAL Widescreen Video Stream > Customize Template:-
Video Quality:- 31
Insert sequence header between every GOP:- Ticked
Two Pass:- Ticked
Variable Bit Rate:- Maximum:- 9,500,00 Average:- 6,000,000 Minimum:- 192,000

I wasn’t able to find an option for VBR .

Everything else has been kept the way it should be.

The above setting has only been done for my main video which is over 1 Hour.
When it comes to “additional features” (more videos) I will be using Adobe Media Encoder as originally there were created in Adobe After Effects.

What do you think mate? Everything has been setup to it’s best setting?

EDIT:- I’m not sure why but Sony Vegas crashes and stops running. I’ve tried 5 times yet still the problem occurs. PLease help?

EDIT 2:- After hours of testing sony vegas still freezes, I am unsure why. ;(

[Jeff Pulera]

VBR = Variable Bit Rate

Take that Maximum setting down to 8.0, some players don’t like high bitrates on burned media.

Thanks

Jeff Pulera
Safe Harbor Computers

[Farhan Ali]

So I tried reducing VBR yet still sony vegas froze and only around 5 minutes of the video got rendered!

VBR = Maximum = 4,200,000 Average = 4,200,000 Minimum = 192,000

Yet still sony vegas freezes? I also realised when the encode failed, the amount that was rendered 5 minutes had some sort of bars across the video, it was like a white bar that occurred varies times throughout the 5 minute clip.

PLease help me out here.

[Jeff Pulera]

Sorry that I don’t know why Vegas is crashing – does it crash if you export to any other format? In other words, something wrong with the timeline, or the MPEG-2 encoder?

As for bit rates, don’t set AVG and MAX to the same thing, make MAX higher (just not too high).

Thanks

Jeff Pulera
Safe Harbor Computers

[Farhan Ali]

I would like to say thanks to everyone who helped me during the project. The end result is almost over and it’s almost completed. It’s because of everyone’s help my project is almost complete. Just authoring left to do, which has encountered another problem.