vegas 8 rendering for high quality mpeg

[Russ Hurley]

you need to make sure that the file that leaves Vegas is DVD complaint.

Essentially, this means do not render at HD!

If you have main concept codecs installed (standard in all international versions i think), choose DVD format with DVD architect option.

However, three things to check:

1) If Nero is expecting a 4:3 and you are giving it a 16:9, it may try to re-arrange it.

2) Make sure that audio is DVD standard (48k uncompressed PCM stereo). If you do’nt give this, it may try to re-format the data. Make sure the audio stream is switched ON!

3)Check not only your PAL/NTSC settings, but also your frame rate, and project settings.

Does this help?

Sony Vegas 9 Pro 🙂

[Howard Steiger]

yes that does help and thank you for replying so quickly. One more question. If I do as you suggest, and than at a later time I want to take this same mpeg file and make a blu ray disc, will it be as good a blu ray disc as it would have been if instead I rendered to blu ray right off of the timeline

Thank you

[Russ Hurley]

If you are going to blu-ray later, you should re-render to BR spec, but only if the source code is higher than DVD spec.

Although, even if your source is less than BR standard, some effects will take advantage of the higher res.

You get me? 🙂

Sony Vegas 9 Pro 🙂

[Howard Steiger]

Yers but if i am authoring in architect or nero for blu ray woint they automaticaaly do this? Also my fram rate and project properties in vegas should be set to what for 1440×1080 60 i source footage?

[Russ Hurley]

Essentially, A DVD render should be diffrent to a BR render. This will save it re-renderintg.

If you find the software re-rendering the files, it is re-clocking the files (ie – not original)

The only way you can have ‘pure’ DVD and ‘pure’ BR is if you render in this setting from Vegas.

However, this depends on the source files, and project settings.

The file you mention would not fit on a DVD, so Nero, etc will re-render it. The general rule is, always re-clock as little as possible, although these days, the difference is negligible, and Vegas itself re-clocks half the time anyway. Direct X audio plug ins for example are relocked.

Sony Vegas 9 Pro 🙂

[Howard Steiger]

So what you are saying by my file type is. I f i am capturing in vegas 8 with hdv 1440×1080 60i footage with my project properties set accordingly. that even if i render off the timeline to dvd template that when i take this file into architect or nero to make a dvd it will jhave to re render.

i hope im not annoying you with my lack of knowledge

tHANKS

[Odd Magne nilsen]

You should set project property to match output. If that is DVD, use one of the DVtemplates.
If not, you will have black bars, and got to use pan/crop to repair.

Save project.

If you want to render for Blu-ray, then open project, and set project property to 1440×1080.
Then render as – blue-ray.

odd magne nilsen

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