Render as NTSC Widescreen soft dull lifeless

[Mike Kujbida]

Since this is meant for a TV, I’d leave it interlaced.
Bump your quality slider to 31 and render using Best mode.

You didn’t say what render template you used.
The default settings tend to be somewhat low so you won’t get the best quality by using them.
For example, the settings in Vegas 8 Pro with the “DVD Architect NTSC Widescreen video stream” template are 9,500,000 / 6,000,000 / 192,000.
In Vegas 7, the first number is 8,000,000.
If the video is under 70 min., I would use use a CBR of 8,000,000 instead of the above defaults.

[Charles Avanti]

Start by setting your project and render settings to “best”.
And dito what Mike says about bitrates.

Charlie

[John Rofrano]

Agreed, I think the progressive setting is what’s causing the softness because it blends fields. I use the standard DVD Architect NTSC DVD Widescreen video stream template and my HDV footage from my Sony Z1 looks spectacular on regular DVD’s.

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[David Shirey]

[Mike Kujbida] “Since this is meant for a TV, I’d leave it interlaced.”

On a related note Mike, if you shot something in 720p and intended to view it on a DVD but using a progressive scan player on an hdtv at 480p, would you render that interlaced or not? Would keeping it progressive preserve the motion better since the source was progressive? And if so, what would happen to that same 480p dvd if you played it using s-video at 480i?

Just some ideas that popped into my head since I’ve never had reason to try those before.

[Mike Kujbida]

[David Shirey] “Would keeping it progressive preserve the motion better since the source was progressive?”

My guess is that it would but, since I’ve never shot or edited any HD footage, it’s only a guess.
What I would do is to render a short segment in progressive, burn it to an RW and see what it looks like on your HDTV.

And if so, what would happen to that same 480p dvd if you played it using s-video at 480i?

Once again, never having shot HD, all I can suggest it try a short segment and see what it looks like.
BTW, my DVD player and my TV set have component connections so this is how they’re hooked up.
Compared to a standard composite video connection, the picture quality difference is remarkable.

[Kevin Labonty]

I was using progressive to get rid of the “jaggies” that appear on the TV. Deinterlaced settings were giving me the jaggies, so I switched to progressive. This tends to get rid of the jaggies. But I will try the best setting and deinterlaced.

Am I using the best setting because I am resizing the video?

If I use a progressive DVD player attached to my TV, should I use deinterlaced or progressive??

[Leo Vaccaro]

Hello, i want to ask for your help. I am new using DVD ARchitect ans sony vegas 8.
When i render my project as DVD Architect NTSC Widescream video stream. there is no audio.
How do you add the audio to the video in DVD Architect?
Or when do you use this template setting?
If my videos are gonna be proyected in a regular LCD, what is the best setting to render my videos. Thanks so much.

[Mike Kujbida]

[Leo Vaccaro] “When i render my project as DVD Architect NTSC Widescream video stream. there is no audio.”

Leo, it’s always better to start a new thread instead of jumping into the middle of an unrelated one as yours may end up getting lost in the shuffle.

To answer your question, this is the recommended way of doing things.
Audio and video are best rendered separately and joined together in DVD Architect.
Render your audio as an AC-3 file using the Dolby Digital AC-3 Pro (*.ac3) in the Save as type: box.
The default template is fine for now.
Make sure it has the same surname as your video file (i.e. myvideo.mpg & myvideo.ac3) and is rendered to the same folder.
This way, when you load the video file into DVDA, the audio will automatically follow.