what are vegas’s min. and max length times?

[John Rofrano]

I’m not sure I understand your question. These lengths are controlled by the DVD specification so you can get the same lengths on DVD whether it’s coming from Vegas or any other NLE. Just set the bit-rate to whatever you want in Vegas and it will create the file accordingly.

~jr

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[Nigel O’neill]

I think I understand the question 🙂

You can store about 70 minutes of video on a DVD and (I think) about 2.5 hours on a bluray before you have to start thinking about adjusting the bit rate, be it CBR or VBR, depending on your circumstances, to find the length of video onto the media.

Whilst you can squeeze more on either media by playing with bit rates, it does so at the cost of image quality. You can get away with 90 minutes on a DVD, but 110 to 120 minutes is starting to compromise quality.

My system specs: Intel i7 970, 12GB RAM, ASUS P6T, Vegas Pro 10e (x32/x64), Windows 7 x64 Ultimate, Vegas Production Assistant 1.0, VASST Ultimate S Pro 4.1, Neat Video Pro 2.6

[Glenn Rotar]

Thanks Nigel. There are situations where I just want lenght or audio and on a dvd recorder the audio seems great even at 8 hours on one dvd. So I like to know the max limit a dvd using vegas will hold as well as a bluray.
I just rendured 5 1/2 hours on vegas and thought i could use a fit to disk or it would automatically adjust it but it didn’t. It said it would fit on a bluray, so I started the process in dvd architect 5.0 but after renduring it said an error occured whil writing a file. Error 0x80131604.
After I removed all the video – it did burn to dvd and used up I believe 76% of the disk. Ideally I like to have scenic slides or video on the screen.

[John Rofrano]

So perhaps DVD Architect “fit to disk” wasn’t designed to make DVD’s that long but you could certainly render an MPEG2 file directly from Vegas that would fit.

~jr

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[Glenn Rotar]

Thanks John, can you tell how to do that. When I first used vegas I burned a dvd and it made an auto menu with every snippet being a new chapter. Now though the program always give a hand off to dvd architect and I am not sure how to get vegas to burn a dvd with an auto menu and NOT do the hand off to architect.

[John Rofrano]

[Glenn Rotar] “Now though the program always give a hand off to dvd architect and I am not sure how to get vegas to burn a dvd with an auto menu and NOT do the hand off to architect.”

I wasn’t suggesting that you not use DVD Architect. I was suggesting that you use File | Render As… and render the MPEG2 file in Vegas first using whatever bit-rate you need to. Then open DVD Architect separately and use the MPEG2 file you rendered in Vegas to create your DVD. You will also have to render your audio separately as Dolby Digital AC-3 and give it the same name as the MPEG2 file so that DVD Architect knows that they go together.

~jr

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