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Simple Question about Burning
I am using Vegas Pro 9. The project is take a vhs video of a basketball game and sync with audio from a radio broadcast. I have it done and the video and audio combined was less than 2 gigs. When I go to tools-burn disc-dvd it shows the estimated size at 7.62gb. Which doesn’t fit on a single disc for me. How do I get that estimated size down below the 4.7 area? It needs to play on a standard dvd player so I am not sure about any of the formats under render as.
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If you have DVD Architect Studio, you need to render it out from Vegas as 2 separate files.
An MPEG-2 file for the video and an AC-3 file for the audio.
Make sure both files have the same name.
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I don’t have that, I just have vegas pro. Can vegas pro not burn a simple DVD?
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Sorry but I only use DVD Architect Pro as I find the timeline option for DVD burning way too restrictive.
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So I got DVD Architect Pro. What is my next step? Do I render it in Vegas Pro then transfer to this? I assume that is what I do, so what is the best format to render it that has the highest quality that will fit on a normal disk?
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It is entirely based on your length of video, the type and quality of audio you’re including, etc. The real answer is that you can fit about 4,700,000,000 bytes of audio/video on a DVD.
What you want here is a tool called a bitrate calculator. Here’s an online version: https://www.videohelp.com/calc.htm, or Google for more. Enter your paramters, including audio (probably 192kb/s AC-3, if you’re authoring in stereo), and the calculator will spit out a bitrate.
Next, go to your video project in Vegas, and select the template for DVD Architect that’s correct for your video type (eg, NTSC 16:9). Click “custom”. Select “Variable bitrate” and “2-pass”… this will generally produce the best video quality. Enter your calculated average bitrate in the “Average (bps)” box, and you may want to tune down the maximum a bit, depending on how different the average is. Do the render.
Next, render audio the way you entered it in the bitrate calculator… 192kb/s AC-3 or whatever.
Next, load these up in a DVDA project. Hopefully it fits. If it does, render and burn. If not, lower that average a little and try again.
Anyway, that’s how you get the maximum quality for any length video. IF you’re trying to fit crazy amounts, like 3+ hours, you probably want to render to 352×480 (NTSC) or 352×576 (PAL) DVD video instead.. that will look better at lower bitrates.
-Dave
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I go to File-Render As- Custom. There is no variable bitrate option. Also the video is an hour and half long. It was on VHS, I put it on DVD then put it on my hard drive. So I want it to be high quality but it is a handheld VHS tape so it isn’t ever going to be perfect. Once I get the bitrate figured out what file type do I want to render it as?
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All screen shots were taken with Vegas Pro 9.
“I go to File-Render As- Custom. There is no variable bitrate option”
Click the Video tab and then you’ll see it.
Note that I’ve selected the two-pass option as the video is of marginal quality.
This will take longer but it will give you the best possible results.
“Once I get the bitrate figured out”
https://www.johncline.com/bitcalc110.zip is the bitrate calculator I’ve used for several years and it’s never let me down.
For a 90 min. video, here are the settings.
Please note that the Safety Margin is set to 5% from the default as this ensures me that it will always fit.
“what file type do I want to render it as?”
MPEG-2 for video and AC-3 for audio.
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Thank You for the help. The reason I didn’t see the screen you were talking about was that it was set to AVI instead of mpeg-2. I have all the setting for the video just like you said but the audio and video have to render seperate? My whole project was to sync audio and video will this mess that up?
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So I rendered as MPG and it worked great everything is synced. File size was 4587666 so it was small enough to fit on disk. I pull it up in architect and at the bottom it says “disc space used 5.0gb”. Is the menu really that big? I haven’t changed it. Is there anything I can do?
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[Tyler Jensen] “Is there anything I can do?”
Have you tried doing a Prepare or Burn yet?
If not, try it and let us know what happens.
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