Allen Zagel
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Thanks Ed
The “Reduce Interlace Flcker” box is already checked on all the stills. What I did do was to re-render at best quality and that kind of minimized the flicker to almost nothing.I’m also thinking about the pan/crop template to use. When I used Excalibur 4, it just left the template at untitled. What if I change that to default or the :3 Standard TV template? I really didn’t notice much of a change there though.
I remember a while back I did some VCD’s with pan/crop motion and they didn’t have the flicker. Can’t remember what I did if anything though.
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Also with some burners (like Sony) you can only use the blank media recommended by the manufacturer. I had TY blank media I used and many times got an equal amount of coasters to good ones. Sony support had me do some tests but said the test wouldn’t work unless I used the media recommended.
Now on my new computer I got the HP lightScribe and have been able to use any of the media I have here with no problems.
So first, check your manufacture’s recommended media and try that.
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Go ahead and ptint-to-tape. You don’t really need to render to AVI first. At least I never have. Only time I would render to AVI first is if I needed to keep the video for some future use. Then I store it on an external drive.
With only a 15 minute video, you’ll know quite fast if it came out okay.
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Format? You can use anything for that 60 second clip. VCD, SVCD, Data CD, You can do QT, MPEG-1 MPEG-2 and for 60seconds, probably AVI.
Main question is how do you intend to play the CD. On a computer or a set-top DVD player?
For my “family” videos I send to China, I burn a standard VCD with MPEG-1 but they won’t auto-start. User just has to click the play button on their remote.
For computer CD-ROM I use multimedia software. Use to use Opus Pro but now I use AMS, both in the $500 range. There’s MMB (Multimedia Builder) that’s a lot cheaper and I’m sure most of the newer burning/authoring software will do it for you. However personally I’ve only used the burning software as just that, to burn/copy CD/DVD’s. But now they’re almost complete mini-authoring software.
I have 60 second clips that are from my DVD’s I’m selling. They’re in QT format. Pop the CD into the computer, navigate to the CD drive and click on the file and it plays.
You got a lot of choices.
AllenMy web site features;
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Big time! I recently had a post below……
https://www.creativecow.net/forum/read_post.php?postid=111795008026616&forumid=24
…..Titled “getting a video to fit on DVD”. If you render at too high a bitrate, your video won’t fit onto a DVD.
There’s been many posts here about bitrates and video length. And there’s a lot of Bitrate calculators out there for free that you can use. After you read my post, do a forum search on MPEG-2 bitrates.
Allen
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Photos and video most always will be darker on your computrer monitor that on a TV. Yes, you over corrected. That’s why I always use a TV moonitor when working on video and and photos for slide shows.
I use the Canopus ADVC100 digital analog converter when I’m editing. Capturing I use a Sony GV-D1000 editing deck.
When producing the video for my company, I need two different versions. One for CD-ROM and one for VHS. The VHS usually I don’t correct. It looks too dark on my monitor but great on the TV. Then I lighten up the version for CD-ROM.
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Hello Ed
I would have done that except for that AC3 render problem. So in effect I was having two problems at once. Then I went back and decided to change the first play from a still photo to a 9 second movie.I don’t know why that size indicator couldn’t be a little more “on-the-money”.
I get this a lot with still photos between Windows Explorer, Paint Shop Pro and Photoshop Elements. All give different sizes of the same photo.
Thanks for the help
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Came out fantastic! Everything works on the DVD. Picture is great!
Case closed, for now! 😉
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Hi
Rendered ‘again!’ to AVI and dropped the thing into DVDA, clicked “fit-to-disk” another hour or so to go and I’ll let you know. Wow, this new HP sure render’s fast. 2.5 hours for a 105minute film. Before I had to figure 3 or 5 to 1. Sometimes on a large video even up to 9/1 as in overnight!Good thought, I think. Anything over an hour or so, make the AVI and let DVDA-1 figure it out! ha ha
Allen
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donatello
Thank you very much. I’m rendering to AVI now and will try that.
This is reminding me of a situation when I went from DVDA-1 to DVDA-2. I thought that DVDA-2 was adding something because the exact same file was almost 1/2 GB larger in DVDA-2 that 1.
That M2V 2-pass file in windows explorer showed a size of 3.86Gb. It should have fit fine. When I inserted the file into DVDA-2 the file size grew to 4.05 GB. Rendered the same file again using Single pass, all in Vegas. The MPG file in explorer showed a size of 3.93, larger than the 2-pass render at the exact same bitrates. Same thing bringing it inot DVDA-2, increased the file size to 4.13g.
Unless I’m missing something, this doesn’t seem quite right. One difference between DVDA-1 and 2 I noticed right off was the fact that when playing in a set-top DVD player, DVD’s made in DVDA-1 did not show the chapter-time counters in the display. Never could figure out how to get it to display though. In DVDA-2 these settings are there so maybe that could account for the increased file size.
Allen
My web site features;
China, China Railways and music.
https://www.azagel.comVideo site;
https://www.asxmediaproductions.com