RENDERING AT HIGHEST QUALITY

[Terry Esslinger]

I typically have 5 seconds of black but that is just me.

You can use select all from the edit menu and then everything will move in unison to the right when you drag something. Then use generated media, solid color, black to place your black leader and adjust it to your desired length. Then choose select all then control click the black event which removes it from the group and you can slide everything back to connect with the black event.

[Douglas Spotted eagle]

MP
Do not use this template. (NTSC DVD)
Choose NTSC Widescreen DVD Architect template
Choose “Custom”
Set bitrate depending on length of project. If it’s short, then 8500 is plenty high.
After you render the video, you’ll need to render the audio to an AC3 file as a separate render. Put both finished MPEG and AC3 file in same folder, using same name, with only the file extension being different.
Open DVD Architect, and author from there.

Douglas Spotted Eagle
VASST
Aerial Camera/Instructor
Certified Sony Vegas Trainer

[Frenchie29]

How do I render the audio seperately?
Thanks Terry for the black trick,

[Terry Esslinger]

You are welcome.

Save as type ‘Main Concept MPEG2’
Template ‘DVD Archetect NTSC videostream (or widescreen)
You will see under description audio none.
Then render again save as type Dolby digital AC3
Template – there are a couple of changes you might want to make to the settings but I don’t have them handy in front of me right now.
This will be audio only.
Saved as same names in same folder Archetect will find them and use them

[Mike Kujbida]

Then render again save as type Dolby digital AC3
Template – there are a couple of changes you might want to make to the settings but I don’t have them handy in front of me right now.

Encode set to AC3;
Click on Custom tab;
On the first tab, set diag. norm to” -31″;
On the last tab marked Preprocessing, set the Line Mode Profile
and RF Mode Profile mode to “none”;
Save this as a preset.

[Terry Esslinger]

Mike,
Thanks, I just couldn’t come up with that.
Terry

[Douglas Spotted eagle]

you can also use the VASST DVD prep plugin, it’s free on the vasst.com website, and will create the MPEG and AC3 file with one button, and put everything where it goes so there is no confusion about file types, file names, etc.

Douglas Spotted Eagle
VASST
Aerial Camera/Instructor
Certified Sony Vegas Trainer

[Jci_pro]

Just a tip:
To get an even better quality on whatever bit rate you may be using (For a standard DVD I recommend Variable bit rate at Max=8,000,000 bps Average=6,000,000 bps, Min=192,000 bps, You could use 9,800,000 bps for the Max and get Higher quality but you also want to make sure your final video has the most compatibility with DVD Players, but if in your case You know this will work fine then go ahead).
On the “Render as” window, on the right hand side of the “Template” pull down menu click on the “Custom” button:
*First Click on the check box that says “Two Pass” on the Video Tab (This will tell the rendering engine to render your video and then go back and check one more time, almost like rendering it twice hence the name “Two Pass”), note that this will increase the rendering time(about 1.5x).
*Second change the “DC coefficient” on the “Advanced Video” tab from 9 bit (which is the default) to 10 bit this will improve quality in some cases, like when there’s not a lot of motion in your movie.

Hope this helps.