New and need help saving to DVD

[Terry Esslinger]

You need to render your edited video out as Main Concept MPeg2 and AC3 audio – two separate files. Then place those files into Architect to burn DVD. Mpeg2 is DVD language.

[Charles Gardner]

Thanks Terry:
I finally got some time to try this again and I am not having any luck.
Whatever format I select to render the video in it stops around 23 percent, the video is a mix of still pictures and video all on the same track with a music track. It all plays great in the preview. I think there must be a problem in the area where it stops rendering, I am not smart enough to see it. Today I transfered it over to a faster computer with more memory to see if it would help and it stopped in the same place. Also I do not see where to chose AC3 audio.

Sorry to be so much bother.

Thanks again for your help

Chuck

[Terry Esslinger]

I believe you have yto have DVDA in order to have the AC3 choice.

Sounds like you have a corrupted media problem in your time line. Try this: render your track to a new track. This will give you a track with a single event. Delete the old track and see if you can then render your project. Might want to copy your project first so that you can go back and make other changes if this doesn’t work.

[Charles Gardner]

Thanks again Terry:

I have finally have the 4 mpg parts into the architect program and it runs fine but when I add the AC3 Audio file it places it at the begining or the end of the video. How do I place it so it will run at the same time or even move it’s placement a bit to sinc it to the video.

I would hate to tell you how many hours I have spent on this project and it is getting easer, but small problems like this that someone who understands the program would solve in no time I spend an amazing amount of time before I break down and ask you for help.

Thanks

Chuck

[Terry Esslinger]

You did not say whether you followed my previous advice to render to a new track. I’ll explain a little further.

If you have your four video files on the same track, one playing right after the other, you will also have the associated audio tracks beneath them. They are synced with the video ion the time line I assume? When you render the 4 video tracks to a new track (RENDER TO NEW TRACK) you should get a new audio and video track that are one big event each (one video and one audio)and they should be synced.

You then delete the original tracks. Now you only have two tracks with one event ion each track.

You then render tis project in two stepsd. First the video by choosing to render to MainConcept DVDA MPEG2 with no audio. You name and save this as xxx.mpg.

You the render the project again this time using the AC3 audio setup. You name and save this IN THE SAME FOLDER as xxx.Ac3 (same name)

You then open DVDA, drag the xxx.mpg file into the program and the audio xxx.Ac3 will follow automatically and will be synced.

Hope this helps

[Charles Gardner]

Terry:

I ran it last night to your instructions and it worked perfect.

Thanks for your help and guidance

Chuck

[Terry Esslinger]

No problemo.

[Ray Jender]

What? You mean Vegas cannot create a DVD on it’s own? I need an additional program? And I have to render two different files in Vegas first?

Wow…that’s doesn’t seem too cool to me!

Right now I am using Cyberlink PD 7 and it renders directly to DVD?

What am I missing about Vegas?

Ray

[Terry Esslinger]

Vegas is an editing program, not a DVD authoring program. DVDA is a DVD authoring (and burning) program, not an editing program. Your final edited product in Vegas may not be meant for DVD distribution so you render out of Vegas according to your intended usage. You can render it out in one MPEG2 file but by rendering the video and audio separately you retain more control over the rendering and can get higher quality. If you give DVDA anything but a Mainconcept DVDA compatible MPEG2 file it will have to rerender it and that will result in degraded 1quality. Some people loike to edit their video with Vegas and then take it to Nero to burn it. DVDA does everything I need or want.