Workflow question

[Gary Kleiner]

You have a few options to avoid making an Mpeg from an Mpeg and the poor results that route will lead to:

1> Render the quarters to AVI first IF you are applying FX or otherwise altering the (assumed) DV footage, otherwise redering at that stage is of no real advantage.

2>Render the quarters to Mpeg2 and bulid your DVD so that they are linked or you provide a menu for the viewer to choose which quater they want to watch.

3>Render the quarters to Mpeg2 and combine them into one file with another program, such as Mpeg Video Wizard.

Gary

[Edward Troxel]

[Russell Robertson] “is it best to make a mpeg render of each quarter individually, then put the 4 quarters on a new timeline and render out to the final DVD, or is there a better process?”

You do NOT want to render to MPEG2 and then put them all on a new timeline for another render to MPEG2. If you are going to pre-render sections, just render them to DV-AVI and then add the four DV-AVI files to the new timeline for final rendering to MPEG2.

As Gary said, you could also render them individually to MPEG2 and combine them with some other program (but NOT Vegas).

Edward Troxel