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I am ready to render a two hour piece of work or am I.
Did I note a tutorial correctly that it finished the project in dvda, went back to ms to render and them back to dvda to prepare for burn?
Is this correct, can it be done? I like it if it can. -
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By “MS” I assume you’re referring to (Vegas) Movie Studio? If you’re referring to Microsoft, you’ll have to be more specific.
Anyhow, I don’t know what tutorial you’re referring to, but you cannot “finish a [Vegas] project in DVDA” and then render it in Vegas. They are separate programs that work with different kinds of project files. DVDA cannot open a Vegas project, nor vice versa.
You edit a project in Vegas or Vegas Movie Studio, render that to a file, and then bring the rendered file into DVD Architect in order to author a DVD.
Did I understand your question correctly?
Rob
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Yes Rob, thanks
The .avi project I just finished was 2 hours long. videocalc indicated a bitrate for this at 4.9.
When I went to render as the custom button was not highlighted so I could not enter a custom bitrate.I rendered in vegas ms as mpeg2, dvda ntsc video stream. Since I could not put in a new BR I hope the thing will fit to disc after adding some menus in dvda.
Any idea why the custom button was not accessable?
anyway thanks for the help
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MPEG2 encoding (and decoding) requires licensing fees — that cost is usually incurred by the software developer / publisher and passed on to the consumer. My guess would be that to then add the ability to customize the MPEG2 encode would cost Sony even more. Since VMS is meant to be a low cost alternative to Vegas Pro, they probably opted to not include MPEG2 customization rather than charge more for the product.
I’d recommend rendering to AVI using a lossless or relatively lossless codec (Sony YUV, Huffyuv, Lagarith), bringing that AVI into DVD Architect Studio, and using the Fit to Disc option. That way you let DVDA find the right bitrate, but you’re not sending your video through two MPEG2 encodings.
Rob
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Rob
Maybe I can just go back and edit the original avi files in vegas.Do you know what I should stay under as a total time frame?
What should I have the time code show as I put the cursor at the end of the video track and yet have it fit to disc with a bit of menu prep in dvda, less than 2 hrs?
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