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Rendering
I would like to know the best way to render. I rendered a project the other day into a dv-avi file. It is sharp as can be when I am playing the timeline project, but the avi rendered file didn’t seem as sharp. I had the render quality to good, 29.97 fps. So I thought maybe if I set the render quality to best, and rendered to mpeg2 it would turn out beter. Well, I don’t think that it really looks any better than the avi file. My final purpose for the file, is to put it to DVDA3. So I wasn’t sure if it was best to render to avi, then to DVDA3, or do mpeg2, then that to DVDA3
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Assuming that you make no change to the footage and using the NTSC or PAL DV template, the avi rendered should be exactly the same as the source avi. Even with filters except blur, etc., you should see no difference in sharpness.
If you are going to DVD, then just render straight to Mpeg2.
Gary Kleiner
Learn Vegas and DVD Architect
http://www.VegasTrainingAndTools.com
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If you’re looking at it in either in the PREVEIW SCREEN of Vegas or DVDa 2 or 3 as a rendered AVI or MPEG it will look, well…not so good. BUT once burned to DVD it looks fine. I have this all the time on every project. I take my VEG files, render to AVI then stitch them to gether and render to MPEG-looking at the AVIs in MEDIA PLAYER makes me want to throw up-in the preview screen-well just sick to my stomach-rendered MPEG in DVDa preview-YUCK but the finished burn product has always looked just fine.
Burn 1 just as a test and see for yourself if it’s really BAD or is it really B A D !Don B
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No, I didn’t make any changes. I was wondering which is the best way to render. I am taking about a half a dozen projects, rendering them seperately, then put them together in DVDA3, as differents menus. It is going to be a DVD of a bunch of vacations, each one able (hopefully) to be chosen on the final DVDA3 screen as a menu for that one vacation. That way they can pick and chose what vacation to view. I just wasn’t sure whether most people render as an AVI or MPEG2 on Vegas, BEFORE it is sent to DVDA3.
Also, wasn’t sure wheter one came out clearer than the other. -
I don’t know if this is correct or not but I understand that the Vegas MPEG2 renderer does a better job than the DVDA renderer. If so then, as I do, render to MPEG2 and AC3 in Vegas and take to DVDA.
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[Terry Esslinger] “but I understand that the Vegas MPEG2 renderer does a better job than the DVDA renderer.”
Well… they’re both the exact SAME encoder. However, you have access to the encoding options in Vegas so you can, potentially, get a better output from Vegas. With DVDA, the only control you have is bitrate and you’re just as well off letting IT calculate the bitrate.
Edward Troxel
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