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HD render settings Help.
I just discovered within the past year how to render my files in HD. I use the 720 .WMV template. These files play perfectly fine when placed on Youtube. However, I recently made a DVD with the videos rendered in this format, and the playback seemed ‘slow.’ I can’t really descrive it. However, others watching the DVD told me they didn’t see any problem with the playback.
Just today, I made a 30 second render as a test. Instead of rendering as .WMV, I rendered as a MPEG (.M2T) file. Firstly, this file rendered much faster than any .WMV clip did. I had run tests before (30 secs) in the .WMV, and that took almost ten minutes, where in the .M2T render, it took maybe two.
So, my question is what should my render settings be, if I want files that will look great on the internet, but can also be placed on a standard DVD?
Thanks 🙂
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A standard DVD must be rendered in MPEG-2 for video and AC-3 or PCM (aka WAV) for audio.
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Thanks for replying! 🙂
So, are you saying with these settings my videos look good on a DVD and the internet?
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Please understand that there’s no way HD source material is ever going to look as good as it can on a standard DVD.
You’re throwing away a lot of data to get it to play on a regular DVD player.
I don’t encode any of my work for the internet so I can’t speak to that issue with any degree of authority other than to say that, once again, it’s being compressed which means throwing away data that was used to make it look as good as possible. -
I understand that quality is being lost. But, I’m not equiped to me burning blu-rays yet. However, I did a test today. I put a 4 minute .M2T file on a standard DVD. The video looked quite good and the ‘slow’ playback did not occur.
Just one more question. In the render settings, I see not even an option to switch to .WAV. All I have are bit rates, like 250, 320, and so on. I changed it to 320.
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I was under the impression that you were going to make a standard DVD which is why I said what I did.
There’s nothing wrong with placing an m2t file on a DVD as long as your player will handle it.
That’s also why you didn’t see the audio render options I mentioned as they will only show up if you’re making a regular DVD. -
I use another application to actually make my DVDS. I only edit with Vegas. And yes, my dvd player is able to handle the .M2T files just fine. However, I need some help with an issue on youtube, but that isn’t the place for that.
Thanks for your help.
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I was talking to a friend of a friend, and he said to render my files as a .mov file, under the h.264 codec. However, in Vegas, under ‘video’ I don’t have .264 listed, but .263. And, no where on the template for .mov files is HD 720. I’m so confused. It actually turns out that most video sites don’t accept .m2t files.
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