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Optimum Settings for rendered MPEG-2 1060-60i file from Vegas 9 into DVD Architect?
Hi everyone! Many thanks before hand for any words of wisdom.
I have a massive headache trying to figure out why a beautiful MPEG2 file looks like garbage when I pull it into DVDA.
A few quick things – I have the Sony HDV 1000u camera. The Vegas manual says the best render settings for HDV is MPEG2 with a HDV-1080-60i template. When the file renders, the video looks about as gorgeous as the Sony HDV 1000u gets. However, when I open DVDA, and open a “new” file and chose “single movie” – I tested down the line and none of those options I chose produce the same type video quality that has rendered from Vegas as an MPEG2. What could be causing this choppy, stop motion looking playback? It can’t be the size of the file because I only rendered about 20 seconds of footage because I was re-esting all the choices out, over and over.
Thanks so much for any help!
Tara
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5 Replies
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What are you outputting to…. Blu Ray or normal DVD (for dvd players)?
Your output file(s) from vegas should be a separate audio/video file in the form of M2V and audio type (ac3… mpeg…etc)
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Hi Rob, thanks for the reply. I just want to make a normal DVD. Ok, so if I output the audio seperate from the video this should be fine? Even if it’s only 38 seconds of video that I’ve used?
Once in DVDArchitect, when bringing in a the new single movie project, which project video format should be selected….720×480 16:9?
I really just went down the list and tried all of them….I can do that again.
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By the way, it’s when I preview the video in DVDA…I don’t even burn a disc because it looks so bad in preview mode.
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Seperating the audio from video did not work. I am still getting a grainy video when I open the project into DVDA. I went back into vegas and instead of rendering as an MPEG2 HDV 1060i, I switched it to DVD Architect NTSC like many other people have recommended. It has not worked either.
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If you’re up to doing one more test, try this:
Render your 20 seconds test clip using these settings in Vegas
( you can include the audio stream if you want, but render as separate elementary streams if you do).
Once your render is done, play the file ( .M2V) to make sure it is actually up to par. It would a waste of time to put it in DVDA if it doesn’t look good to begin with. I usually use VLC to do that.
If that’s to your satisfaction, than start a DVDA project the same way you have so far using the preset NTSC Widescreen 720*480. Once the file is loaded, hit the preview icon and check if it looks any better, also make sure the preview quality is set to HIGH and not LOW or MEDIUM (the setting is in the upper right corner of the preview screen). If it looks good, than you should be set. If it doesn’t, there’s one more thing thing to do. Click on the MAKE DVD icon, than click PREPARE. Select a folder (or create one) that you can easily access, and than just follow the instructions in the following pages. Once the DVD is prepared, navigate to the folder, open the VIDEO_TS folder and play the VTS_01_1.VOB file (that should be your test clip), again I use VLC for that, and see if you like it (or not).
I know it is a bit of a long process, sorry about that, but at least if it doesn’t fix your problem it should narrow down where the problem happens.
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