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DVD burning going ridiculously bad…
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James, the file is finally ready. I had to go looking for that font and I’m on a slow DSL line here but here it is. I used the settings mentioned earlier in this thread. It looks good to me but I’ll let you be the final judge of it. FYI, not that it makes a difference but the source video is 1440 x 1080.
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You’re right, my bad about the frame size. That is relatively the same result I’m getting, and under normal circumstances that would be fine, I am just worried about if someone watches this on an HDTV and/or through an HDMI cable and sees how pixelated it really is. I have seen higher resolution images and text in DVD movies before. Why is it that I *have to* use these settings for burning to a DVD? I guess I will do it if it’s the only way. I just wish it was higher definition. I swear DVDs normally look better than this. I know it’s not Blu-ray by any means. Just confused, I guess.
James Strecker
JTS Entertainment
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I have to give a GIANT thumbs up for the assistance that Mike is giving to the OP. To actulky request source footage so he could use his expertise to find the best solution is really something.
I raise my glass to Mike,
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So everything seemed to work out fine until the end, when it gave me the same old “unsupported file type” message. Maybe because I used an mp3 for the sound. But I only did so because I tried to render audio as AC3 like you suggested and DVD Architect would not recognize the file and allow it to be drag-and-dropped onto the timeline…
I am at a loss here…
James Strecker
JTS Entertainment
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…I looked this up on other threads here and it seems people have had this problem in the past. However, it got resolved by rendering the audio as .wav instead of .ac3, but when I tried this, it still gives me the “unsupported format” error message. It shouldn’t have to do with the video since I followed your previous instructions. Ugh.
James Strecker
JTS Entertainment
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Okay, I have now tried every audio filetype available in Vegas. DVD Architect Studio gives me the “unsupported format” error every. Single. Time. What am I doing wrong here?
Another thread in this forum from a few years ago lists these options as ones DVD Architect Studio will accept:
Audio: .aa3, .ac3, .aif, .ogg, .oma, .sfa, .vox, .w64, .wma
None work. At least, seemingly. The video filetype could be the problem, but I have rendered it exactly as instructed.
I appreciate the help so far very much. But it looks like my adventure is not over here…
James Strecker
JTS Entertainment
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A bit more info…
I noticed for the first time that, when I go to burn the DVD, the notices say:
“The video on track 2 ‘Video’ will be recompressed.”
Is this bad? It is the only thing listed with a yellow icon rather than a blue “i” icon like I get for the rest that concern the audio and menu actions.
Could this have anything to do with my issue?
James Strecker
JTS Entertainment
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James, my sympathies as I was really hoping that this video would be done by now 🙁
Have you ever installed ANY kind of codec pack, specifically the one from K-Lite as it’s known to cause grief to Vegas users everywhere.
I have no idea why your AC-3 file was rejected as this is what Vegas likes to see. You did the right thing trying a WAV file as that’s also acceptable.
The only thing I can think of is to do a reinstall of DVD Architect (and possibly Vegas too but try DVDA first) and see if that fixes things.“I noticed for the first time that, when I go to burn the DVD, the notices say:
“The video on track 2 ‘Video’ will be recompressed.”
Is this bad?”It means is that, for whatever reason, your rendered video did not meet the specs required for DVD Architect.
Sony has an article on this on their Knowledge Base page at Avoiding recompression in DVD Architect.
I’ve had this happen to me a few times over the years and when I go back and check my render settings, I’ve done something wrong somewhere.Please post screenshots of your render settings, both video and audio. If there are multiple screens for either one, please post all of them. One way or another I’m determined to get to the bottom of this problem 🙂
You were concerned about the render quality on your final product. Your source footage is HD while DVD is only SD so unfortunately you will loose a fair amount of quality and there’s not much that you can do about it.
If your clients want an HD version and you have it as an option , use the Internet 1280×720-30p template found under Sony AVC/MVC type and give it to them on a USB stick or burn it to a DVD but tell them it’s designed for computer playback, not on a DVD player.
I rendered out the file you gave me using this template. It’s at Tape 16 – 3 – North Marion 3.mp4 -
Thanks, Mike.
I will grab some screenshots in a little while once my computer is done with a different render it is working on right now for something completely different.
I really appreciate your desire to help me solve this problem.
James Strecker
JTS Entertainment
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Have you tried to just make the VIDEO without the Audio to work out which part is causing the problem?.. If the Video burns OK then remove the video from the time line and replace the video with just a still picture for the whole length of the audio and try again…. As the others are saying you have to find out what it is NOT to be able to find out what it is…. . And yes..always use a DVD-RW when having to find problems..Hope you get it sorted soon…
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