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Newbie Vegas Basics
Hey guys,
recently purchased a Sony XR520 video camera for a trip to the USA. Managed to get 8hours of footage over there and the camera worked flawlessly!
Now home, I’m wanting to burn all the footage to DVD’s to give to my mates whom I travelled with.
I have followed instructions found on here, and have transferred all footage to my computer. I then encoded it to MPEG-2 format. It’s now where I have a few issues.
Obviously the video is way to big to fit even onto 1 dual layer dvd. Is there a way in DVDA to put the whole video into the timeline, then let DVDA split it onto seperate DVD’s? Or do I need to manually cut the video up into segments. If so, how big would each segment need to be to fit onto a dual layer DVD? The video was rendered from Sony Vegas Pro using the Mainconcept MPEG2 template that is regularly recommended on this forum. No menus etc will be used, simply just the video on each DVD.
Also, how do I set the DVD so that it burns in a format that will work on both a standard TV, as well as a widescreen LCD/Plasma. Obviously we’ll be watching the movie on a number of different TV’s, and don’t want it to look stupid on 1 TV, and different on the other.
Cheers for all the info thus far!
Daniel
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1 Reply
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1. You will need to split it. However, you can use a womble product to do this for you without reencoding it and it is quick and has a free trial.
2. You will need to download a bitrate calculator. Here is one for you. This will help you to know where to split or, more precisely, how to set your bitrate to get the most on a disc you can- keep in mind, you can fit 8 hours on a disc, but the quality will be horrible. I would say 1 hour for top quality on a single layer disc. 2 hours is acceptable depending on the movement of the footage. Again, that is just my preference for a single layer disc.
3. As far as the TV. I would encode it to widescreen if you shot in widescreen. If not, then use 4:3 if that is what you shot it in. The TV’s can adjust for either. If it was 4:3 instead of 16:9 you will see black pillar boxes on both sides of the video on a widescreen. If it was 16:9 and you are watching it on a 4:3 tv it will show letterboxing (black bars on top and bottom). And of course, some tv’s have settings that override this. Some stretch the picture to make it fit the entire screen. They can change this in the TV settings.
Good luck.
j razz
https://www.jrazzcreations.com
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