Rendering too long & then strange error message

[John Rofrano]

What is this all about & how do I get past this problem?

I have no idea why this is happening but to get past the problem, render your video and audio separately like you’re supposed to and don’t change the template.

Just render your video as MPEG2 and your audio as AC3 and it will all work.

~jr

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

[Paul Gregory]

I have done as you suggested but I end up with the same result. I still haven’t a DVD file & still get the same error message.

Thanks in advance

[Mike Kujbida]

The only way to render progressive for DVD is 24p.
If it’s not in this format, it must be interlaced.

To quote John Rofrano’s reply in another thread.

DVD is a very strict specification which allows:

29.970 fps interlaced video (commonly referred to as 60i)
25.000 fps interlaced video (commonly referred to as 50i)
23.976 fps progressive video (commonly referred to as 24p)

[Paul Gregory]

If I rendered the file out as interlaced MPEG2 would or could the file that DVDA creates still be made progressive & if yes would this be a long rendering process?

Thanks in advance

[Mike Kujbida]

DVDA can’t make an interlaced file into a progressive one as this must be done in Vegas.
Once again, only a 24p project can be made progressive and given to DVDA so if your source footage wasn’t 24p, turning it into one may not look that good.
All I can suggest is that you try it and see if the results are acceptable to you.

In an earlier post, you told John that you did as he suggested (render your video as MPEG2 and your audio as AC3) but it still didn’t work.
This is the method used all the time to create DVDs and it always works so my guess is that you’re doing something wrong somewhere.
Please walk through the exact steps you’re taking to do this so that we can figure out what’s happening.

[John Rofrano]

If I rendered the file out as interlaced MPEG2 would or could the file that DVDA creates still be made progressive

I don’t think you are clear on what Mike and I are telling you so let’s get specific.

What are you project properties?

What are the properties of your source video? (resolution, frame rate, pixel aspect ratio, codec, etc.)

What are the render properties that you would like to have?

As Mike already pointed out, your options for making a DVD are 60i, 50i, & 24p. What are you trying to make?

~jr

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

[Paul Gregory]

What I was trying to do was to create a standard DVD with MPEG2 files that were not interlaced. I now have this done. I have no idea as to why I had problems before. When you use DVDA & select optimize it tells you if the file needed to be re compressed & it says that it didn’t need to be done. It also tells me that the file will only take up a small portion of a single layer disk.

Why it took so long attempting to render out the menus & eventually stopped I don’t think that I shall ever know. The only thing that is different about my most recent successful attempt was that that I changed the thumbnail buttons back to still rather than animated. Perhaps the program hadn’t allowed for animated buttons to come from a progressive file.

Whenever I burn a disk of my own that consumes very little space I always include the extras file with jpegs taken at the same event or a trimmed copy of the Vegas input files along with the veg & dar files & often the picture that was burned onto the disk.

After creating the MPEG2 file & before I shut down Vegas I also tried to render out the project as MPEG4. The project had lots of jpegs of very good quality so I thought that I might like to see the same project looking even better. Sometimes I have had room on the DVD to include this sort of file as well. So I tried rendering out the project again using the same MPEG4 template I have used before but ever time I tried to create the file the program crashed after about 5 minutes.

Thanks in advance