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high quality DVD rendering
I have just finished an 8 minute film in VV, rendering it as a 4.5 GB QT file. It looks beautiful when played on my computer.
Trouble is, the highest quality DVD I can produce using this file is only 570 MB. I have used both DVD Architect (bundled with VV 7) and Roxio MY DVD 9 – both of which produce a similar quality DVD.
Question – is there a way to expand the size of the DVD and raise the quality of the finish? Or is 570 MB the maximum one can get out of a 4.5 GB file.
I’ve also rendered to MPEG-2 to about 1 GB, but the resulting DVD is also 570 MB and the quality is about the same as finishing from QT.
Any suggestions? Is there another DVD authoring program I might want to try?
Thanks so much for your help.
Max
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14 Replies
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The DVD Max bitrate means that this is the size of your video file for an 8 minute video. In theory you can create an MPEG with higher bitrate, but you will not be able to play it on the majority of DVD players out there.
Now, you shouldn’t render to anything before you render to MPEG-2. Render directly to MPEG-2 from the timeline using the DVD Architect template. When you render to something else first, in most cases you will get a reduction in quality due to the multiple re-renders.
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Hi Guys,
What if you render avi first in Vegas and then bring it into DVD archictect for the finish result. Let DVD architect tell you if it needs to be compressed or not.
Ralph
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For menus created in Vegas, it’s best to render AVI and bring that into DVDA, and let it render MPEG2. This is because DVDA always re-renders menus, if you add buttons or other objects.
For your main video file, use Vegas to render it straight to MPEG-2, and take that into DVDA. DVDA won’t recompress it, unless you tell it to.
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Wile
Thanks for your interest and help.
I’m not sure, but it seems that DVDA always compresses my MPEG-2 files. Is there something on DVDA that I can turn off, like a preference so it does’t automatically compress the file when burning to DVD?
thanks again,
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DVDA is DVD hell. It reencodes many files it shouldn’t but you CAN render a file it will not reencode. It depends on what you want to output. Render an mpg2 file using one of the templates – NTSC DVDA video stream. If you are doing widescreen make sure to do that. If you are going to 24p, you MUST encode one of the templates with “pulldown” in it or it will reencode.
After the mpg2 file, do the audio render in AC3 with the SAME FILE NAME. When you open the video file in DVDA it will also pick up the audio.
In DVDA on “Prepare” – do NOT burn in it. Burn the file with Nero or something similar. You will get much better results. Frankly, DVDA should be given away in boxes of Cracker Jacks.
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In DVDA on “Prepare” – do NOT burn in it. Burn the file with Nero or something similar. You will get much better results. Frankly, DVDA should be given away in boxes of Cracker Jacks.
How do you burn a DVDA prepared file in Nero. Steps please?
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In Nero choose “Burn DVD video files.” When that opens, hit the “Add” button and navigate to the place where DVDA created the “Prepare” files. Highlight those folders, both audio and video, and add them. Hit “Finish” and insert your disk, hit “burn”. If you want several copies tell the program how many. The first takes some time. Subsequent copies are faster. Good luck.
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Okay, so now we find out DVDA sucks. Isn’t there a SINGLE software we can use to make good DVD’s from Vegas? Mixing Nero and DVDA sounds like a problem.
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No problem at all. Make the mpg2 and AC3 files in Vegas, Prepare in DVDA, burn with Nero. Simple.
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I do like Jerry does (prepare in DVDA) but I use RecordNow to do my burning.
I’ve been doing this for a number of years and it’s always worked well for me.
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