I need help burning a 14GB film done in vegas studio to a DVD

[Daniel Levy]

Curious, why don’t you burn a Blu-Ray disc instead of standard DVD?

[Douglas Spotted eagle]

Is your film 14GB as an MPEG for DVD file? Or 14GB as an avi file once you do a render?
What format is it currently in? Getting a 14GB avi file down to 4 GB for DVD distribution, is very easy. Getting a 14GB mpeg file down in size isn’t.

Douglas Spotted Eagle
VASST

Certified Sony Vegas Trainer
Aerial Camera/Instructor

[Monica Villarreal]

Hi Douglas..

Thanks for your response.. I appreciate it.

To be honest with you, I am new to the program, no manual and no idea how to see in what format my film is. Could you give me a tip as to how to determine in what fomat the file is? AVI or MPEG? and how to change formats once created?

Thanks,

Monica

[Monica Villarreal]

Hi Daniel.. Thanks for the reply..

I was reading today about blu ray disk and it is quite interesting. Once I burn my film on a blu disk, can it be seen in any DVD player or PC? and can I make copies of it as any other regular DVD?

If not possible, the copy I mean, could you suggest what is the best software to make copies? Would Sonic record now be “the” one?

Thanks..

Monica

[Monica Villarreal]

Hi Douglas,

I got it! I am rendering the film this very moment as AVI. Before I just followed the Make a Movie steps so I guess that’s different, right? So, after I get this done, what should I do?

Many thanks again,
Monica

Monica

[Daniel Levy]

Monica,

In response to several of your questions:

1) You should render file as an MPEG2. That’s the standard DVD format, and is compressed over an AVI. As Douglas noted, you can choose the amount of compression in producing the MPEG2 in order to make it fit on a standard DVD.

2) In that vein, I’d recommend a dual-layer burner, which gives you 9 GB capacity. DVD Architect Pro 5.0 which comes with Vegas Pro 8.0 works very well in producing such discs. With that software, you can even produce files for professional in-house duplication.

3) My earlier comment about producing a Blu-Ray disc was based on having an MPEG2 file of 14 GB size. Sounds like that’s not an issue for you. To answer your question though, you would need a Blu-Ray DVD reader in your computer to read such a disc, not a standard DVD reader.

[Monica Villarreal]

Guys.. many thanks for your great help. You certainly helped me tons.. until next question and all the best,

Monica

[Monica Villarreal]

Hey guys!

It’s me again.. it didn’t take long, ah?

I have one more question. When I render the video as .avi, is this an uncompressed .avi?

If not, is there a way to get this video into an uncompressed .avi?

Thanks a bunch,
Monica

Monica

[Douglas Spotted eagle]

Yes, you can create an uncompressed avi file with Vegas, but why would you want to?
I’m getting the idea you’ve got a lot of cooks in the kitchen…the only reasons to export to uncompressed is:
=if you’re going out over SDI
=if you’re compositing and it’s “real” compositing
=if you’re archiving for a higher end system
=if you’re using the uncompressed to generate an SDI-distributed master broadcast stream for Media Pool or similar.

Otherwise, I can’t think of any reason to go uncompressed. Based on your earlier questions, “none of the above” seems to apply here.

Douglas Spotted Eagle
VASST

Certified Sony Vegas Trainer
Aerial Camera/Instructor

[Monica Villarreal]

Hi Douglas,

Thanks for your response. Sorry for the confusion, I am just learning as I go and I thought it was going to be easier. I don’t understand many of the terms you are using but anyway, the thing is that I made this video with a friend and we want to sell it. I will give this video to someone who will help me to make copies and he asked me to send it this way. Could you help me with how to do it?

Thanks again,
Monica

Monica