Sony Vegas Movie Studio Platinum Issue

[Martin Loose]

Hi
Update for you…
I have now downloaded and registered DVD Architect 4.5 which has got round the viewing issue in that I can at least now watch the movie properly rather than through Vegas itself.
I’ve burnt a DVD from DVD Architect but it still will not play through a European DVD player nor will it load into the PC (Toshiba) through the external drive.
Any suggestions? I think I am getting nearer to a solution here !
Regards

[John Rofrano]

Hi Griggs,

Sounds like you’re getting closer. You will certainly need DVD Architect to make DVD’s.

> I now want to save the movie to a disc so I can play it back through a European DVD player. I am at a loss as to how to save the movie down to disc so that my DVD player can read the images. Discs I am using are DVD+R ones. Please can someone outline exactly what I need to do to get the above to work in terms of output and rendering properties.

Usually from Movie Studio you just press the Make Movie button, then choose Burn to DVD and when it’s finished rendering use the Send to DVD Architect Studio button. (at least this is how it works in Movie Studio 6 which is the last version I have)

Make sure that your project is set to PAL. This is how Movie Studio knows to render to the correct format for Europe. In Movie Studio use File | Properties (Alt+Enter) to check and make sure that PAL DV (720×576, 25.000 fps) is selected as the Template.

> As a side issue also I only ever seem to be able to watch the movie back through Vegas itself. If I save the movie to the hard drive when I open it it reopens in Vegas so I only ever get to see the movie through the small viewing window in the programme itself.

What are you clicking on? If you are clicking the .vf file this is your problem. That is not the movie. It’s your Movie Studio project file. You need to click on the MPG or AVI file or whatever file you rendered to watch the movie.

~jr

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[Martin Loose]

Hi
Many thanks for your reply. Indeed I think I am getting closer to resolving this whole thing !
In Movie Studio Platinum you still click on the “Make Movie” icon and this then takes you through to the rendering process. I will try rendering in Movie Studio using the criteria you outline above and once rendered will send the file to DVD Architect.
When in Architect 4.5 as the file was recorded in AVCHD will it burn in “Blue Ray” to the disc or will the rendering selected overwrite any other formatting? When playing with Architect over the weekend I was able to view the movie in Architect although not on the full screen. Silly question as well but where are the Vegas / Rendered files saved on my PC? Reason I ask is that they are quite big so does all this rendering etc eventually cause the hard drive to grind to a complete holt?!!
Regards
Griggs

[John Rofrano]

> When in Architect 4.5 as the file was recorded in AVCHD will it burn in “Blue Ray” to the disc or will the rendering selected overwrite any other formatting?

The rendering selected is what it will use and this is determined by your project properties when using the Make Movie button. According to the Vegas Family Comparison chart on the Sony web site, DVD Architect Studio does not support the authoring of Blu-ray. You can only make a Blu-ray disc from the timeline with Movie Studio Platinum.

> Silly question as well but where are the Vegas / Rendered files saved on my PC?

When you press Make Movie it prompts for for the fully qualified filenames for the render. It will place them wherever you tell it to.

~jr

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[Martin Loose]

Hi
Many thanks for the continued advice. I think we may be getting there with all this!
I think rendering the project in standard format rather than HD or AVCHD could be the answer. I know that I will lose some of the quality but I think that the DVD player I am using probably can not cope with anything too high powered being thrown at it! Would you let me know the render settings I should use for both video and audio to produce a standard DVD?
Many thanks
Griggs

[John Rofrano]

> I think rendering the project in standard format rather than HD or AVCHD could be the answer. I know that I will lose some of the quality but I think that the DVD player I am using probably can not cope with anything too high powered being thrown at it!

If all you have is a DVD player then that’s your only option. You need a Blu-ray player to watch Blu-ray movies.

> Would you let me know the render settings I should use for both video and audio to produce a standard DVD?

I don’t know how else to say this: Press the Make Movie button, then choose Burn to DVD and when it’s finished rendering use the Send to DVD Architect Studio button. That’s all you need to do.

~jr

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[Martin Loose]

Hi John
Just a quick follow up to let you know that all is now well and I’ve managed to burn and play back both on my laptop and DVD player a really good looking movie.
Many thanks for all your help and advise. Invaluable.
Griggs

[John Rofrano]

GR8! I’m glad I could help.

~jr

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