Rendering AVCHD to dvd

[Aleksandar Acimovic]

Yes well, listen, i mean read, 🙂 . I am brand new at this, o have my season of work at summer, and am trying to prepare for june, july and august. I am curently doing some old projects, because last working season i was not prepared.

Now about fitting, that is again rerendering what i want to try to avoid, here is example, i created video, rendered in vegas and architect keeps showing me message, ok this time i will ignore it and go with it….

[John Rofrano]

While I agree with Stephen and have experienced myself that DVD Architect sometimes complains that it can’t fit the video on a DVD when, in fact, it can… it sounds like this time it really can’t. It is possible that the video is too big to fit on the disc in which case you need to lower the bit rate of your render in Movie Studio. Once again, use a bit rate calculator to help you out or stop guessing and let DVD Architect Studio fit it to the disc for you.

~jr

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

[Stephen Mann]

You are correct – you want to control the filesize when encoding the files in Vegas. Use a bitrate calculator to determine the encoding parameters to plug into the Render As, Modify Template window.

Never let DVDA re-render your video. You are encoding already compressed files, further compromising your quality – do it right the first time in Vegas.

Also, don’t rely on the DVDA to “fit” to disk. The codecs in DVDA are not as good as the codecs used by Vegas.

Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
http://www.mmdv.com

[Aleksandar Acimovic]

I did all i could, and i mean all you told me, i used bitrate calculator and i put avg bitrate and max, but i still got too large video file, too large for architect studio, it was 4.4 gb but still DVDA was giving me that message, and i trayed to ignore it but when i press finish to start burning, it just won’t start, keeps telling me that i don’t have enagh space on DVD.

Is there anyone here who is doing some vocie call support via skype or teamviewer support ?? Because this is really important to me to succed in this.

Thank you for the effort you gave to help me all this time.

[Mike Kujbida]

I wonder if it’s a case of where the files are being saved getting filled up.
Have you changed your presets from the defaults?
Do you have more than one hard drive?
Ideally you do and you’ve changed the locations of all the default save, render and temp directories in both Vegas and DVDA from the default locations to folders on the second drive.

[Aleksandar Acimovic]

Yes i have 2 drives. Yes i changed directory’s from default location. My HDDs have plenty of space. What do you mean by default presets?

I have uploaded image of all projects i did…

[Aleksandar Acimovic]

https://s7.postimage.org/qxfi32wxn/list.png

[John Rofrano]

What bit rate did you use? Obviously you need to make it smaller.

~jr

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

[Aleksandar Acimovic]

avarage 4886
max 9603

from bitrate calculator, and i found some combination from other forum

max 7080000
avr 4048000
min 2424000

the point is even when i finish rendering, i get good size, i get like 4.4gb which is good, and i got 4.0 and DVDA still wont burn it … still gives me message about space..

[Stephen Mann]

Your screenshot of the folders doesn’t tell me anything.
Like John said, try a lower MAX bitrate. Filesize is directly related to bitrate.
As I said, I “prepare” my DVD into an empty folder in Windows. If that folder size in Windows Explorer is less than 4.3Gb, I know it will fit – no matter what DVDA protests.
I am not at all familiar with the Studio version of DVDA, so maybe it won’t let you ignore the warning as the pro version does.

I don’t know if DVDA Studio has this option, but try changing the target media size in file/properties. This may trick DVDA into accepting your 4.0Gb file. I’ve never tried it, and it may have other repercussions such as DVDA may try to split your media into a double-sided disk. But it can’t hurt to try.

Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
http://www.mmdv.com