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@ DVDA rendering questions
I have a couple of questions about using DVDA3. I get the impressing from reading in the forum that the prefered way to render a project in Vegas for use in DVDA is to render it as a DVDA stream & a separate AC3 stream. I know that going this route you get the benefit of fit to disk option.
What I can’t see unless I’m missing something very basic is why you would want to go this route since it appears that if you do you loose most options related to encoding quality. I can’t see any way to specify that you want the project rendered out using progressive scan, asking for 2 pass in lieu of one, whether you wish good quality or best quality? What am I missing?
A second question about using DVDA if I may. Can you drag in 2 different MPEG2 files that were encoded using different bit rates & use them in DVDA without the files being re rendered. I was thinking along the lines of having the main video being best quality & say an extra file being of lesser quality.
Thanks in advance
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[The Old Fart] ” I get the impressing from reading in the forum that the prefered way to render a project in Vegas for use in DVDA is to render it as a DVDA stream & a separate AC3 stream. I know that going this route you get the benefit of fit to disk option.”
Yes, this is the preferred way. However, going this route you should NOT use the “fit to disk” option as that could cause the video to be RE-rendered. Instead, you make sure it’s small enough to begin with.
[The Old Fart] “What I can’t see unless I’m missing something very basic is why you would want to go this route since it appears that if you do you loose most options related to encoding quality.”
Actually, this is the way in which you have the MOST options. If you let DVD Architect do the rendering, you get whatever it gives you. If you render the two files in Vegas, you can click on the “Custom” button and change the settings as needed.
[The Old Fart] “Can you drag in 2 different MPEG2 files that were encoded using different bit rates & use them in DVDA without the files being re rendered”
Yes. Just make sure the combined total size if the two files is still small enough to fit on the DVD so that DVD Architect won’t do any re-rendering.
Edward Troxel
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Anytime I do encoding from the Vegas timeline, I almost always tweak the bitrate so that I get the best possible quality out of it.
You do this by clicking the Custom button next to the Template box.
You can select Best mode in the first tab that comes up.
Then click the Video tab and you get the other options you talked about.
BTW, if you do everything right (and use a bitrate calculator for longer than 70 min. projects, you’ll never need to do a “fit to disc”).As far as 2 MPEG streams with different bitrates, yes you can.
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Thanks for the answers. I still don’t understand just why the prefered option is to use DVDa & have less options.
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Take another look –
Render/save as type:mainconcept mp2
Template: DVD Architecht NTSC video stream
Click the Custom button, then the “video” tab at the bottom of that window. Don’t you see all of that stuff? I see everything you were asking for. Find those tabs down there. -
[The Old Fart] “I still don’t understand just why the prefered option is to use DVDa & have less options.”
Says who?
You’ll have a hard time finding anyone here who will agree with that statement.
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