well….Vegas 6 has not fixed render to mpeg 2 problem

[Matthes Norton]

V4 was so much more stable than V5. Every Time I open it I get unknown error messages. It locks up and crashes when playing large HDV files but that might be because I am under powered for what I am doing. I didn’t ketch the exact problem that you are having but I have had problems with rendering CRB MPEG Transport streams HDV. It would get up 3.99Gbs and freeze. I finally tried doing a clean install on another drive. no problem rendering but I couldn’t get magic built to install. another Idea for your problems, Try creating a fresh new preset for your MPEG rendering I have found this to work when for some unknown reason one of the presets decides it just isn’t going to render at all.

as for flicker I haven’t noticed a big problem with text in menus unless I compress it allot. I have had problems with flickering text within video. increasing the bit rate in Vegas seams to reduce it but it still shows up on a interlace TV but not so much on a progressive monitor and not at all on the computer. I have seen previews on Hollywood movie DVD’s do the same thing so I am assuming it is the DVD player and TV more than the software. non the less an anti flicker option does sound good. I mostly render 24p and 30p DVD files which look great on an HD monitor but not as good on a standard TV set.

[Yoyodyne]

Well my “scorched earth” policy has paid off – the clean re-install of XP Pro did the trick and I can, once again, render to mpeg 2, yeehaaa!

I’m pretty sure that Vegas Mainconcept mpeg engine got borked up in version 5d & it just stayed borked up. The new Cinform/Vegas stuff in V6 fixed my m2t problem but mpeg 2 was still wonky…I think cleaning out the registry, etc and reloading all the Mainconcept stuff with the new Vegas install obviously fixed what was broken. But what a PITA!

Just as an FYI, when I had Vegas 5d still on my edit machine I tried rendering to mpeg 2 by opening up the vegas project on my laptop through the ethernet connection and have the laptop render to mpeg 2. It failed in exactly the same way as my editing machines render would fail, about 188 megs in, with the same error messge. Vegas 5d normally works fine on the laptop. I thought it was borked up as well but just did a test and it seems to be fine…and I have like everything in the world installed on this thing – my edit machine is dedicated – go figure…

Well I’m off to frys to get another video card (I got about 5 years out of this one). Hope this helps you guys – I know it’s not real good news but at least it’s a fix.

Thanks a bunch for all the info and help!

Yoyodyne

[Barend Jasper]

Well done Yoyodyne, that’s excellent news – considering circumstances. I’ll try re-installing XP Pro and sit back, cross my arms and see what happens.

Again, well done.

Barend

[Yoyodyne]

Thanks Barend! Good luck – and just as a coda, went out and picked up a new PNY geforce dual head video card (nvidia geforce fx 5500)for $99 bucks, plopped it in and my dual monitors are once again happy campers (exact same driver even). I talked to the guy at frys about my old video card going funky on me and he’d never heard of it happening – oh well. I had an ethernet router go bad on me & I thought that was impossible. I also had my Buckaroo Banzai poster fall off the wall last night (LATE last night) as I was re-installing all this stuff & my video card was simultaniously dying…they say these things happen in threes…

[Mahesh Upadhyaya]

DVDA2 doesn’t have as many encoding options as Vegas, particularly 2 pass encoding, but I see DVDA3 has Interlace Flicker removal.
Peter
I downloaded the DVDA3 trial.Ofcourse I could not burn a trial project to see if the menu text improves with the anti flicker filter.
I did burn the demo video_ts file and text looks good. It is a large chunky font.
Is there any way I could burn a dummy menu with some text on it, to DVD?

Regards
Mahesh
https://www.crestvideo.co.uk

[Peter Wright]

Mahesh,

If you send the DVDA3 .dar file to me with any media, I’ll have a go at burning it and send you a screen shot.

ariad [AT] iinet DOT net DOT au

Peter Wright
Perth, Western Oz
http://www.allroundvision.com.au

[Peter Wright]

First of all Yoyodyne, well done – persistence rewarded!

Now I’ve discovered that V6 has changed nothing with my MPEG2 rendering position:

I can still render DVD type MPG2 without problems, but

Trying to render m2t files still crashes around 243 Mb.

This is on two different PCs both running XP SP2

So – by your “scorched earth” method, I assume you mean you re-formatted C drive?

I’m very loathe to do that unless there’s no choice – it would waste at least a day reinstalling everything. I still have no specific need to render m2t but I’d like to get this sorted before I do …

So, do you think I should try a reinstal of XP over the top of existing, or is it more likely to be Vegas related?

Thanks

Peter Wright
Perth, Western Oz
http://www.allroundvision.com.au

[Barend Jasper]

Yoyodyne, one question though: did you format your C drive or simply installed over the exisiting one? I too dread having to format the C drive and re-intall everything.

Thanks,

Barend

[Mahesh Upadhyaya]

If you send the DVDA3 .dar file to me with any media, I’ll have a go at burning it and send you a screen shot.
Thank you Peter for your very kind offer. I am just wondering whether the screen shot will reveal the flicker seen on PAL TV.

Peter, I normally use text only on my menus. For stage shows I may have 2 columns with 10 rows for scene selections. This is where the interlace flicker on DVDA2 becomes unacceptable. I have stuck to DVD workshop because its flicker filter sems to be very effective.

Talking about text only menus, I have not found a way (may be I have not looked hard enough) to use text only in DVDA. Perhaps you can guide me to appropriate place in the manual.

Again thanks for the offer.

Regards
Mahesh
https://www.crestvideo.co.uk

[Peter Wright]

Last bit first Mahesh – In DVDA you select the button, then in Button Properties there is a choice under Button Style of Text and Graphic, Text only or Graphic Only.

If you have a DVDA file, you can send it to me, I shall burn it to a DVD-RW, view it on TV and tell you if it shimmers, both with and without the new Interlace Flicker Removal feature – that will make me learn how to do it!

Peter Wright
Perth, Western Oz
http://www.allroundvision.com.au