Rendering twice in MPEG-2 and AC3

[Terry Esslinger]

When your edited project is ready chose file>render as:
Choose “save as type” Main Concept MPEG2:
Use ‘template’ DVD Archetect NTSC Video Stream:
No audio will be rendered and the ‘custom button’ should be available at this point.

Choose the ‘custom’ button and then click on the video tab and set your desired bit rate. Anything under 70 minutes I would recommend CBR 8,000,000.

Then render. This will give you the video file.
Do ‘render as’ again and this time choose ‘Dolby Digital AC3’:
Choose ‘custom’ and make any changes.

Make sure that the names that you give the MPEG file and the AC3 file are the same except for the suffix and save them in the same folder.

When you open DVDA drag the MPEG file to the workspace. The AC3 file will follow automatically.

Hope this helps.

[John Rofrano]

> I read somewhere on this forum that the Vegas DVD templates do not render audio and the “Custom” button is required.

They don’t render audio because you don’t want to render MPEG2 audio only to have it recompressed to go to DVD. You do not want audio in your DVD video file.

> However the “Custom” button is grayed out when I try to click it.

That’s odd… What is the exact name of the version of Vegas that you are using? When the custom button is gray it may be because you are using one of the Movie Studio versions of Vegas. In which case you may have the “Studio” version of DVD Architect which may not support AC3.

Knowing exactly what software you are using would help us understand what the problem might be.

~jr

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[Marilyn Palacol]

Thank you Terry and John for your feedback.

The program is Vegas Movie Studio 9 Platinum Pro Pack including DVD Architect Studio and Sound Forge Audio Studio. I was not aware of any non-studio Vegas software. I’ve only used MS Movie Maker in the past.

I rendered the AC3 file quickly with no problem. The MPEG-2 froze the software at 75% when rendering using template DVD Architect NTSC Video Stream.

I thought I finally broke the code with these wonderful tips. Hopefully it’s just my laptop that had a glitch. I rendered this morning and left for work over 12 hours ago. I have attempted to render my 20-minute video for 10 straight days overnight, each lasting 8-9 hours.

I’m learning something new each time so sorry if I don’t talk the talk yet. This whole problem started when I got the error “Microsoft Sound Mapper does not exist”. I’ll try again right now but I wanted to provide the software name just in case you have any more useful info to provide. Much appreciated…… Marilyn

[Marilyn Palacol]

The “Custom” button continues to gray out for MPEG-2 & AC3. When I change to .wmv or .wma or .avi, the “Custom” button is activated. I believe I selected MPEG-2 and AC3 for all new projects so maybe those are the defaults instead of customized. I’m just guessing. . . .

[John Rofrano]

The Custom button is grayed out because Vegas Movie Studio doesn’t support customizing these templates. Some you can and some you can’t. You need to buy Vegas Pro (for a lot more money) to get to customize all of the templates. Also the Studio version of DVD Architect might not support AC3 audio. Again the Pro version does. So these may just be limitations of the Movie Studio version of Vegas.

~jr

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