I need recommendation for real DVD

[Edward Troxel]

I don’t know why Vegas sometimes doubles the MPEG size. I just know it sometimes happens. Does the MPEG2 file also contain audio? Are you providing audio separately as well?

If yes, what if the MPEG2 does NOT contain audio and you provide it separately?

Not that you’d want to do this but what if the MPEG2 file does contain audio and you don’t provide it separately?

What if you just give DVD Architect an AVI file and let *IT* change to MPEG2 and AC3?

Edward Troxel

[Terje A. bergesen]

Can you just master DVD-9 (dual layer) where DVD-A should not re-encode, don’t burn a disk, just master to a folder. If that master is smaller than the size of a regular DVD, burn to DVD using NERO or even DVD-A by using “Burn a previously prepared folder”?

[Sebastien Gravel]

The easiest way is to save from Vegas in DV-AVI and let DVD Architect do the encoding. I’ve never had any problems doig it this way.

[Douglas Spotted eagle]

The easiest way is to save from Vegas in DV-AVI and let DVD Architect do the encoding. I’ve never had any problems doig it this way.

if you don’t mind losing quality, this is a fine method of working. The encoder in Architect is not as good as the fully featured encoder found in Vegas, not to mention the chroma loss starting with a DV-based master vs the timeline.

Douglas Spotted Eagle
VASST
Aerial Camera/Instructor
Certified Sony Vegas Trainer

[Sebastien Gravel]

Why would the encoder be different? Isn’t Sony shooting itself in the foot by doing that?

Also, the timeline is a DV-Avi file. Starting with version 8, you can work in 32 bits. So, there would be no quality loss from DV-Avi timeline to Dv-Avi Master. Of course, I could be wrong…

[Warren R sampson]

I use Vegas along with the Cinema Craft Basic encoder and DVD-Lab Pro. DVD-Lab has many features in common with high end authoring packages. Not fancy looking, but very powerful.

DVD-A is not quite there yet, sadly.

https://www.cinemacraft.com/eng/basic.html $60

https://www.mediachance.com/dvdlab/dvdlabpro.html $249

[Edward Troxel]

They both should be using the exact same MainConcept encoder. However, in Vegas you have access to the various settings instead of using the “automatic” settings in DVD Architect. So you have much better control over the final result.

Edward Troxel

[Jerry Waters]

Sony says that the problem was I encoded 24 WITHOUT PULLDOWN. Supposedly, if you use pulldown it works but if not DVDA will reencode. Isn’t that strange with Sony and others making 24p cameras? DVDA is written for deinterlaced footage only?

That sounds like huge BS to me written by somebody who wrote the thing and doesn’t want to take responsibility to fixing it.

[Edward Troxel]

Actually, that sounds like a perfectly reasonable explanation to me.

Edward Troxel

[Mike Kujbida]

Jerry, I don’t remember you saying what camera you were using but Sony has two 24p whitepapers (PDF format) on their site aimed at 24p production in Vegas and DVDA.
One is 24p and Panasonic AG-DVX100 and AJ-SDX900 and the other is 24p HDCAM/DVCAM.

I know that the DVX100/SDX900 paper has very specific steps for successfully burning a 24p DVD.