rendering so i can create DVD for flatscreen (why so slow)

[Danny Hays]

Are you needing to play this on a regular DVD? If so you’ll need to render to a widescreen format like NTSC DVD compliant mpg with custom video settings at 16 x 9. If you can use a fairly fast computer to play the video, that works great.
As far a render times, there must be a file or files that Vegas has a hard time with. I have used very high resoultion jpegs, with panning and had no render time problems as your describing. I would remove a media file from the timeline one at a time and check render times.
What are the file types and resoultion? what will you be playing the final video from? Danny Hays

[Ron Davison]

Thanks Danny for your quick reply. To answer some of your questions I only require regular (non-HD) DVD as i don’t have bluRay burner yet and final destination is a DVD to play on flatscreen (16:9) tv. In terms of picture resolution i scaled them (the still photos) down using LightRoom so the longest edge is 1440. I do have some .mts files in the mix that were shot with SonyHandyCam AVCHD 1440×1080 format. So my final project is a combination of stills and photos with lots of panning and transitions.

A couple of things that are confusing me that perhaps you can shed some light and maybe what’s causing me problems – and that is the relationship to what you put in the project properites and what you pick to render….In the project properties i use a template calaled HDV 1080-60i (1440×1080) as this matches the output of my video recorder. I take it the information in the project properties has everything to do with media that you are reading and is not related to anything to do with rendering?? If i use something like NTSC DV Widescreen in the project properties i get a tiny bar on the left and right side when i preview and render. I guess this is because I ‘cropped’ all stills to use ‘Match output aspect’ when the project properties was using HDV 1080-60i….

Sorry for the rambling here….maybe a better question to ask is this. Given i am creating a project destined for a regular DVD player on a 16:9 flatscreen and the project content contains HDV 1440×1080 along with still photos…what should i setup my project properties and how should i set my rendering properties for best results?

Thx again for your help (and patience!)

[Danny Hays]

I would leave it in the 1440 project settings as you have. I have found when I use picture in picure and panning, resizing from the track motion settings and render to a smaller, 720 x 480 video, things can move on you. I always render to 1440 x 1080 intermediate Cineform format first, then render that to the smaller videos you need, only if I use pic n pic and sizing as described. Cineform avi is very efficient in Vegas is a good format to convert videos that are not efficient, like one or more of the file formats you must be using to get render times as you described. Since you don’t have DVD Archetect, you can’t use the wide screen presets for it. You can still render to NTSC DVD compliant mpeg 2 with the custom video settings of 16 x 9. This should give you a video to burn to DVD that should fit the flat screen HDTV. It will of course be standard def. I am really suprise how few people connect their computers to their HDTVs. My computers are my HD players for my HDTV. Plus once you get used to using it, you’ll have a had time going back to your computer monitor. Danny