Sony Vegas a total waste of time

[Tom Pauncz]

Jim,
Are you trying to burn an SD or HD DVD?

DVDA Studio does not support HD content; IoW – Blu-ray.

My suggestion would be to render out from Vegas Studio as a Widescreen DVDA NTSC video stream (assuming you’re not in PAL land) and as a separate AC3 audio stream for the audio.

Then bring those into DVDA.

Cheers for now,
Tom Pauncz
(30WEST MEDiA GROUP)

[Jim Cappa]

I originally rendered the movie using the drop down menu and not using “make a movie” tab. It took 17 hours to render, the next day i came back to computer and clicked finished, took out dvd and nothing was burned on it.
So I had to render it again using the “make a movie” tab.
Then found out movie was 5.7 gb.

Since movie was larger than size of dvd, i saved the movie and went out and bought larger size dvd.
Had to render movie again, as it appeared it wasnt saved, although i know i did. REgardless, after rendering movie, another 2.35 hrs to be precise, learned that I needed to add chapters at the 55 minute mark to 1,26 hr mark [end of movie]. dvd architect Said I needed to go back and do this at the “make movie stage”.
I edited the movie, figured how to add markers, added several just in case.
Now I am rendering it all over again, waiting another 2.35 hours.

I am using HP desktop, windows visa, quad core computer, it can easily handle this job, but this prgm takes a long time to make movies. My daughter uses it burn shorter length video and she finds it very slow as well.
I have a lot of home movies and doubt i can use this program. Too slow and cumbersome. It should state during rendering that there are potential problems. Takes too too long to make a movie.
Now I’m considering just playing movie on TV and using the old dvd burner while watching movie.

[Tom Pauncz]

Jim,

I’ll try to answer one step at a time…

If a render completes, then the movie is saved. It depends on where you pointed it to save to. Otherwise it would go the default set by the program. So your movie was there somewhere.

“Attempting to burn a HD movie in standard format from a sony HD camera”

What is your input format and what are you rendering as? Please give us precise info or we can’t help. Downconverting from HD to SD will take some time.

We have nothing concrete to go on even after so many posts.

Cheers for now,
Tom Pauncz
(30WEST MEDiA GROUP)

[Al Bergstein]

Sorry you feel this way Jim, but I went through similar agravating experiences with Final Cut Pro. DVD production on Vegas is easier, but neither are cake walks. There are tutorials out there. You need to go through them. I had to. Otherwise just burn it right out of the pull down menues as you did. There have been critical support questions asked that you have not answered. Since we can’t see your computer it’s pretty critical to help us help you.

I’ve had frustrations with many DVD burning packages. Overly complex, incapable of simple things, such as on Apple their high end DVD production package can’t burn a Blu Ray disk even if you have a Blu Ray player in the machine. You have to use Toast. Sheesh.

So give us a bit more clues here, and maybe we can help you out.

Alf

[Mike Kujbida]

[jim cappa] “Attempting to burn a HD movie in standard format from a sony HD camera.”

Rather than go through the pain (and excessive conversion time), you’d be much better off doing an in-camera conversion to SD and then importing that into Vegas for subsequent editing.
Giving us the model of the camcorder would be a big help too.
As has already been mentioned here, we can’t help you until you help us by giving us more information.

[jim cappa] “after it went through its process it states i need to add chapters!!.”

It’s asking for a break point as the file is too big for a single layer DVD.
Or were you using a dual-layer DVD for the burning?
Once again, more information please.

[Jim Cappa]

Thanks for your assistance guys, but i finally got the dvd burned.
Yes I did use a dual layer dvd. I will save this website should I need further help.

I find that rendering movies prior to burning is time consuming.
My daughter had burned several short movies and she is more proficient than I at this. However the program should alert to errors prior to burning. ie. the need to add markers.

For your information, I had downloaded a HD movie from a sony HD camcorder to my hard drive. We have done this before and the movies are playable on regular dvd players. Haven’t tried them on blu ray.
The problem if any was really the length of time it took.
Since the dvd was lengthy I can see why now.

[Mike Kujbida]

” I will save this website should I need further help.”

And we’ll still be here to answer your questions.

“I find that rendering movies prior to burning is time consuming.”

Unless you have a standalone DVD recorder hooked directly to your camera and have no intentions of doing any editing, it HAS to be done this way.
A brand new computer with the latest hardware will render faster than real-time but you still have to render.

“However the program should alert to errors prior to burning”

The program assumes that you’ve read the manual and know what’s expected.
Imagine if you were given a bunch of food of various types and a picture of what it was supposed to look like once it was cooked.
Do you think you could do it without a recipe, especially if it was something you’d never prepared before?
The same thinking applies here.
If you know how to accomplish what you want to do before you start, it takes a lot less time and frustration than fumbling through it.