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Newly Made DVD does Fast Forward or Fast Reverse correctly
I’m a fairly new user to Vegas, and I tried to exaust all possibilites to find an answer before posting here, so I expect this is either so obvious a question no one asks it, or so rare that it doesn’t happen often. I rendered a DVD from Vegas and DVD studio, and looks and acts great except for one thing… the remote control (on two) DVD players will only allow Fast Forward at one speed (other DVDs I have work at multiple speeds) and Reverse doesn’t work at all. Both DVD players are Sony and under 1 year old. I’m definately a bit perplexed by this, and cant find any info on this. The original files were HDV, converted with Sony’s intermediate 1080i codec (an AVI file I believe). The output to the DVD looks great, and with the exception of the FF & FR, and have no fault with it. Any help, suggestions, etc is greatly appreciated.
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Hi All,
I thought I’d update with what I have heard. I still do not know the truth or not, so anyone elses comments are very welcome. I’m a software engineer at a company that makes video servers, there are a number of video gurus here intimate with the internals of mpeg files, etc. So I talked to a few to see if they had a clue. What I was told was that this is common to homemade DVDs, it likely had nothing to do with the encoding, and was in the burner, burn process and media itself. Suggestions were to burn at the slowest possible speed and experiment with media from different vendors. If you have something that is working for you, could you please tell me the make and model of your DVD burner and what media you use? I haven’t got the media with me so I don’t know the brand name (I’m cheap so it was the cheapest thing generic brand I could find I know ;-), but I was using a dual Layer burner that is in my Dell XPS Gen2 laptop.Thanks!
yetanotherguy
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[yetanotherguy] “(I’m cheap so it was the cheapest thing generic brand I could find I know ;-)”
That’s a mistake when it comes to DVD media.
Gary Kleiner
Learn Vegas and DVD Architect
http://www.VegasTrainingAndTools.com
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So what Brand(s) do you use, I have no problem spending the money if I know the results are worth it. I’m hoping not to have to buy 1/2 dozen brands before getting the right ones. Any brand suggestions? Thanks!
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I use Tai Yuden, which is more of a bulk brand. As far as picking some up at Best Buy, try Maxell, Fuji and the like.
Gary Kleiner
Learn Vegas and DVD Architect
http://www.VegasTrainingAndTools.com
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I use Verbatims (because Taio Yudens aren’t available locally) and heave had great success with them.
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Okay folks,
I have to tell you about fix as it wasn’t easy to figure out or obvious (to me). I’m really surprised alot of people don’t run into it.. But here’s the answer.. it has NOTHING to do with the DVDs or anything else..I am Running Sony DVD Architect 3.0.. and I didn’t use any theme or template, just what came up to put together what I wanted. Under “default” conditions, if you go under Options->Preferences->Burning the setting for “Minimum Video Bitrate” was set to 2.0 Mbps. After some checking, I couldn’t find anything that told me what standard DVDs are recorded at.. but I ran across this nifty utility called “bitrate14.exe” (google for it, you’ll find it).. that when you run it with a prerecorded DVD (I used “Fight Club”).. it tells you the average bitrate. Anyway, Fight Club played out at about 8 Mbps, so that is what I changed Vegas’s setting too. Once I did this, Fast forward and Fast Reverse (at several speeds) worked great..no problems at all. So.. I hope this helps somebody else.. Good Luck!
Brian
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