Poor quality of finished DVD when using Architect 4.5

[Josh Reynolds]

Thanks for the helpful advice guys and thanks to you Diane for raising what would have been my next question!

Josh

[Diane Sosnoski]

You’re welcome Josh and I’m glad you got the thread going. I feel more confident about how to encode for the best results now.

[Holly White]

First, my apologies. I am totally new to Sony Vegas Pro 8. In fact I am still using the free trial period from Sony that I downloaded yesterday, so bear with me. I have been reading your forum and tutorials practically non-stop and they have really helped me through to this point. It’s taken me about 16 hours to narrow down 40 minutes worth of footage and about 15 photo’s to an 8 minute video. I’ve followed all of the steps and got to the very last step to be able to move everything to DVD Architect and it’s giving me an error when I go to render to Dolby Digital AC-3 Pro. It says I have to buy “AC-3 Rendering”. I’ve done tons of searching on Sony’s site to see if I missed a download for the free trial, but can’t find anything. Do you have any suggestions that might help me? I was able to render the video portion to MainConcept MPEG-2 as described above, just can’t seem to get that next step. Trying to finish a birthday dvd for today, so if anyone out there can help me I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks!

[Mike Kujbida]

[Holly White] …it’s giving me an error when I go to render to Dolby Digital AC-3 Pro. It says I have to buy “AC-3 Rendering”.

Your problem isn’t a problem. Instead, it’s a limitation of the trial version of Vegas Pro 8.
All I can suggest is to render your project out in DV-AVI format and load that into DVD Architect.
I’m not sure if that will work, but, if you have no other DVD authoring software, it’s something to try.

The next time you have a question, you’ll get a quicker response if you start a new thread instead of getting buried in an existing one.

[John Rofrano]

I believe that the AC3 renderer comes with a licensing fee to Dolby Digital which means that Sony cannot include it in the trial download. You’ll have to purchase the product to get the AC3 license.

What you can do for now is render to a WAV file format. Both WAV and AC3 are acceptable audio formats for NTSC DVD’s. That should at least allow you to complete this project with the trial.

~jr

http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasst.com

[Diane Sosnoski]

Mike,
I use Vegas Pro 8.0 and there is no AC-3 option in it. It’s necessary to import WAV files into Architect and convert them there.

[Mike Kujbida]

[Diane Sosnoski] “I use Vegas Pro 8.0 and there is no AC-3 option in it.”

This is very strange as, since you have DVD Architect, you should have AC-3 as a render option.
When you click the dropdown menu in the “Save as type:” box, it should be the 3rd option.

[John Rofrano]

> it should be the 3rd option.

Yea, look for: Dolby Digital AC3 Pro (*.ac3).

~jr

http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasst.com

[Diane Sosnoski]

Mike,
I mis-understood and thought you were telling another user that Vegas Video had the AC-3 option. I know that I have it in Architect and have been converting my WAV to AC-3 files there.
Also, thanks for your help on using the BitRate Calculator. I’m getting a better understanding of it after reading the thread you referred to.

[Mike Kujbida]

[Diane Sosnoski] “I mis-understood and thought you were telling another user that Vegas Video had the AC-3 option. I know that I have it in Architect and have been converting my WAV to AC-3 files there.”

Diane, as John & I both said, Vegas does have the AC-3 render option.
Doing it from Vegas saves you having to do it in DVDA.

“Also, thanks for your help on using the BitRate Calculator.”

I’m glad to see that you’re figuring it out.
It’s a great tool that I use a LOT.