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My first video project. Arrgg!
I shot a 60 minute concert (Canon Vixia HV40 HD 1440×1080) using a separate tape recorder (Sound Devices 722/DPA 4022 mics). The audio was crap on the camera. I opened up the .m2t file from the video camera and I can see the sound in window 2 below. I opened up a third audio window and dragged the single wav file (SD 722 @ 16b/44.1k) in it. Using the crap audio from the camera i got a perfect sync at the beginning and stretched out the video at the end to make up for the 0.40 second difference. I also put markers at every song. I would like to burn a dvd and a blu-ray disc. At this point I just need to get the file(s) ready for burning but have no idea what to do from here. Huge learning curve. I would pay for a class to get these things sorted out. Thanks so much in advance. Rick
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You should probably have DVD Architect. It works very nicely with Vegas, as it is Sony Creative Software. (I’m not sure what it’s like burning blu-ray in that). You have two decent options:
Option One Procedure:
1. Download and install Sony’s DVD Architect.2. Render your whole video in MPEG 2 without audio, there should be an option in MPEG 2 called ‘DVD Architect NTSC’ or PAL or 24p. Choose the one you need (NTSC is 30fps, PAL 25ps and Motion Pictures are 24p). Or if you’re rendering Blu-ray, you’ll find relevant options further down.
3. Render the audio in AC3 Stereo, or there are other formats.
4. Open DVD architect, and make your DVD look lovely with the decorative tools, and drag in your video and audio stuff. It lets you set ‘chapter’ markers, meaning the viewer could skip songs conveniently and you could add a ‘Song Selection’ menu that takes a viewer straight to the song.
5. File > BURN BABY BURN
Option Two Procedure:
1. In Sony Vegas, go to Tools > Burn Disc and then you’ve got your ‘DVD’ and ‘Blu Ray Disc’ and you can just batter it onto a disc right there. This however means you get no DVD menu, no quirky song skipping: just raw video to watch, fast-forward and rewind.2. Wish you had chosen option 1.
Hope this helps!
Daniel Hughes
Amateur Writer, Director,
Director of Photography
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I agree with Daniel as DVDA is the prefered way by Sony and many Vegas users, and the .ac3 audio can be surround sound if you desire.
If you don’t have or want to use DVDA, you can render as “DVD NTSC OR PAL” which has the audio in the file already, and use any DVD burning software you may have. Hope this helps, Danny Hays -
Be sure to tape next time at 48 kHz not 44. That avoids the slip, which will drive you nuts and not always work for lip sync. It’s a setting in the SD, or any recorder you might have. 44 is for cd’s videos at 48 .
Alf
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Which audio will it take. The cameras audio I want tossed out the window.
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Rick, don’t worry about 44.1 vs. 48K as Vegas deals with this difference with no problems at all.
I did a concert two years ago where the audio was recorded using Sonar (16 tracks) and given to me in 44.1 in stereo and 5.1
I dropped it on the timeline, lined it up with the video, rendered for DVD and everything was fine.BTW, I’m jealous of your audio kit.
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Still confused on what will happen to the middle (2) audio that I do not want. When I try to delete it, the video gets deleted as well. I did d/l the 30 day trail of DVD-A. Do I have to do the project from scratch?
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“Do I have to do the project from scratch?”
No you don’t so stop worrying about it.
If you’re positive that all your audio is perfectly lined up, delete the scratch track.
I recommend saving it with a different version name so that you can go back to it if you should ever want to. -
How do i get this Vegas project into DVD Architect? I keep failing no matter what I do. Rick
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What kind of problems are you having?
Did you follow the steps as outlined by Daniel Hughes earlier in this thread?
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