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  • Vegas Studio/DVD Architect weirdness

    Posted by Nick White on February 4, 2013 at 7:25 am

    I have a video from a Panasonic HD SD700. It is 1920/1080 50P. I turned it into an mp4 in Vegas Studio using DVD Architect PAL Widescreen video stream. Other methods (Main Concept mp4, avi and Sony’s mp4 offerings) gave the same problem.

    The output from Vegas is fine, but when I then use DVDA to prepare files for DVD, I have had the following results.
    – the bottom third of the screen was green OR
    – the aspect ratio was full widescreen as for big screen movies. This made the A/R of the video wide to screen width, but not high enough
    – the video was correct A/R but letterboxed.

    This has happened when playing in in Media Player, Media Player Classic, and VLC.

    The preview in DVDA letter boxes the video. It reaches neither the sides nor the top and bottom of the preview screen

    Any help greatly appreciated.

    I noticed that if I asked Vegas to make the video that it put out to be a 4:3 rather than 16:9, then used DVDA to make the vob files etc, the correct AR is created.

    Please see MediaInfo for the “bad” videos below.

    What gives?

    HAHA! BTW “dogscrap”was about dogs “scrapping” (fighting, although they were just playing) not what I can now see it could mean 🙂

    Nick

    MediaInfo for Vegas output (using DVD Architect PAL Widescreen video stream)
    General
    Complete name : C:NickDocsVegasdogscrap.mpg
    Format : MPEG-PS
    File size : 3.79 MiB
    Duration : 3s 0ms
    Overall bit rate : 10.6 Mbps

    Video
    ID : 224 (0xE0)
    Format : MPEG Video
    Format version : Version 2
    Format profile : Main@Main
    Format settings, BVOP : Yes
    Format settings, Matrix : Default
    Format settings, GOP : M=3, N=12
    Duration : 3s 0ms
    Bit rate : 10.4 Mbps
    Maximum bit rate : 9 800 Kbps
    Width : 720 pixels
    Height : 576 pixels
    Display aspect ratio : 16:9
    Frame rate : 25.000 fps
    Standard : PAL
    Color space : YUV
    Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
    Bit depth : 8 bits
    Scan type : Interlaced
    Scan order : Bottom Field First
    Compression mode : Lossy
    Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 1.003
    Stream size : 3.72 MiB (98%)

    MediaInfo for Vegas output (using avi encoding)
    General
    Complete name : C:NickDocsVegasdogscrap.avi
    Format : AVI
    Format/Info : Audio Video Interleave
    Commercial name : DV
    File size : 32.6 MiB
    Duration : 8s 960ms
    Overall bit rate mode : Constant
    Overall bit rate : 30.5 Mbps
    Recorded date : 2013-02-03 16:35:40.000
    TCOD : 98800000
    TCDO : 188400000

    Video
    ID : 0
    Format : DV
    Codec ID : dvsd
    Codec ID/Hint : Sony
    Duration : 8s 960ms
    Bit rate mode : Constant
    Bit rate : 24.4 Mbps
    Width : 720 pixels
    Height : 576 pixels
    Display aspect ratio : 16:9
    Frame rate mode : Constant
    Frame rate : 25.000 fps
    Standard : PAL
    Color space : YUV
    Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
    Bit depth : 8 bits
    Scan type : Interlaced
    Compression mode : Lossy
    Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 2.357
    Stream size : 30.8 MiB (94%)

    Audio
    ID : 1
    Format : PCM
    Format settings, Endianness : Little
    Format settings, Sign : Signed
    Codec ID : 1
    Duration : 8s 960ms
    Bit rate mode : Constant
    Bit rate : 1 536 Kbps
    Channel(s) : 2 channels
    Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
    Bit depth : 16 bits
    Stream size : 1.64 MiB (5%)
    Interleave, duration : 280 ms (7.00 video frames)
    Interleave, preload duration : 280 ms

    MediaInfo for the output from DVDA
    General
    Complete name : C:NickDocsDVD Arch OutUntitled1VIDEO_TSVTS_01_1.VOB
    Format : MPEG-PS
    File size : 2.86 MiB
    Duration : 4s 938ms
    Overall bit rate mode : Variable
    Overall bit rate : 4 857 Kbps

    Video
    ID : 224 (0xE0)
    Format : MPEG Video
    Format version : Version 2
    Format profile : Main@Main
    Format settings, BVOP : Yes
    Format settings, Matrix : Default
    Format settings, GOP : M=3, N=15
    Duration : 4s 938ms
    Bit rate mode : Variable
    Bit rate : 4 761 Kbps
    Maximum bit rate : 9 500 Kbps
    Width : 720 pixels
    Height : 480 pixels
    Display aspect ratio : 4:3
    Frame rate : 29.970 fps
    Standard : NTSC
    Color space : YUV
    Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
    Bit depth : 8 bits
    Scan type : Interlaced
    Scan order : Bottom Field First
    Compression mode : Lossy
    Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.460
    Stream size : 2.80 MiB (98%)

    Menu

    Nick

    Nick White replied 13 years, 3 months ago 1 Member · 1 Reply
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  • Nick White

    February 9, 2013 at 3:30 am

    I dunno.If I give not enough info I get told off. Here maybe I gave too much and nobody bothered….

    Nick

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