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NOOB: Vegas Movie Studio to DVD Architect – “Best” Render Type?
First, apologies if there is a specific Movie Studio forum… I didn’t see it.
I’m using Vegas Movie Studio Platinum 9.0b – the latest.
I feel kinda stoopid asking this, but I’ve searched, but not really found any good info.
I’m putting some family VHS tapes on DVD. Most are right at 2 hours +/- 10 minutes.
I have a JVC Super VHS ET deck with TBC, output via S-Video to a capture card driven by Virtualdub with the resulting output file an AVI with Huffy compression (big yes, but I have 1TB of capture space so 100GB is no issue).
I bring this AVI into Vegas Movie Studio, clean up, add titles, chapters, etc.
Now the real question: what is the “best” render type out of VMS for input into DVD Architect? “Best” meaning the best opportunity for image quality. Yes, I realize that VHS to DVD basically sux, but I’m looking for the least suck 😉
I’ve rendered to mpeg2 w/audio, mpeg2 with separate AC3 audio and AVI. Typically when a 2 hour file hits DVD Architect, it has to be re-rendered to fit a single layer DVD (no control over bitrates in VMS).
Thoughts or suggestion? Or does it really matter, due to the limitations of VHS?
Many thanks for the input!
Steve
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4 Replies
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Since DVD Architect is re-encoding it anyway (this is another reason I prefer Vegas Pro!!), I’d render to DV-AVI and give that to DVDA instead (less quality loss).
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Thanks! That was my thought process too.
You’d think that with the target set as a DVD, they’d calculate the bitrate in VMS to fit. Guess I expect too much from consumer level software 😉
Steve
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Are you 100% positive (I’m certain you are but I have to ask anyway) about the inability to customize bit rates in VMS?
I helped out a VMS user a few months back (same version of software as you) and I thought there was a Custom button next to the MPEG-2 template box. -
Good thought… I double checked and there IS a ‘custom’ button but it’s inactive when encoding mpeg2.
On the plus side, that did lead me to see that you can customize the AVI template. I’m running a test now to see how that works with using the Huffy codec, which is what the input is encoded with.
Probably won’t make a hill of beans quality-wise for the target DVD ;-D
Steve
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