[Brendon Abel]

what bit rate would you recommend? I thought Blu-ray was capable of 54,000kbps so I chose 50,000kbps. I think my next closest option that I could lock at a constant rate was 20,000 kbps. Every time i tried to make it 30,000 or 40,000 it would snap back to the last default speed

[Brendon Abel]

This is exactly what I want to do wayne. Like you, I would rather never touch a disk of any kind again. Im honestly surprised the medium still exists.

Anyway, I have fully rendered the video as a “MainConcept AVC/AAC (*.mp4)” file in Sony Vegas

Audio: 128kbps, 48,000 Hz, 16 Bit, Stereo, AAC
Video: 29.970fps, 1920×1080 Progressive, YUV, 30Mbps, Pixel Aspect Ratio:1.000

I set a constant bit rate of 50,000,000bps

I might redo that adding “markers” for the chapter points rather than in another program. (if you suggest this i suppose)

I will download MKVtoolnix Gui if you could tell me your version and then maybe I could bang this thing out tonight!

Does this program give me the ability to add my own image as the background for the title menu and have two buttons: 1. being Play all and 2. being chapter select, which will bring me to another screen to choose which chapter or go back?

And this file that you create, is it the same file that i could put on a flash drive and plug into the blu ray player, or will i have to go through a different rendering method?

[Brendon Abel]

wayne,

Your video tutorial did help me a lot. Now I’m sure im going to stump you. I want to create dvd menus that can be used for chapter selection but without burning an actual dvd.. So i can play it on my tv without a physical disc (I want super high quality video but my 2 hour long video is 40+ Gb) and i think 8GB is the highest dual layer disc size.

I know VLC media player and other programs can play .ISO files which is what most dvd files are but I think that would require streaming them to my tv where as I would like a standalone video file with menus..

Ever tried such a thing?

Thanks for all the help. The video came out pretty good (certainly to my liking at least). Being able to have a clean title menu and be able to skip to chapters is a bit of a cherry on top that i would like for presentation value

[Brendon Abel]

It does. I downloaded RX5. Ill take a look at your video and hopefully get it figured out. I have messed with the dialog denoiser but again, to no real avail

[Brendon Abel]

im saying decibels instead of frequencies, pretty aggravated right now haha

[Brendon Abel]

So Ive been using izotope and getting through most of the audio. I want to select the decibels of a voice being heard and raise that against the background noise but I cannot find a way to do it.. (I i dont want to reduce that background noise, just amplify the voice over it.)

On another section, I am trying to select just the decibel relating to a wind noise and lower that against voices by selecting that decibel over a few seconds and “learning” it then applying it all the way accross the audio.

I cannot for the life of me figure out how to intricately work the spectral repair..

I realize those two circumstances kind of contradict eachother, but they do need to happen that way for the video to sound natural.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5ndLwDLg3o

In the link above, this guy did it very well (i think) when removing variable wind sound around others. but i dont understand how to use the spectral graph to reduce targeted noises

Thank you very much for the help. Im really trying to get this done for christmas for my family.

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[Brendon Abel]

Okay well ill find a way to get izotope. How do i do it then?

[Brendon Abel]

Well, my hope was that i could make those noises much quieter and maybe hear voices a little clearer without feeling like the volume is being raised and lowered throughout the 2 hour long movie i have. So id like to manipulate my audio rather that cutting and pasting. However, id like to do this within 2 weeks or so..

Thanks for the continued help

[Brendon Abel]

Bob,

Finally got around to finishing the videos and now working on audio. I am having trouble achieving the affect i want with the camera handling. Using Audacity, I have tried the noise reducer and equalizer effects. With the noise reducer, I seem to end up with some high pitch sounds scattered throughout the clips and as far as the equalizer, well thats really above my expertise.. Do you have any further suggestions or know of any helpful tutorial videos? Upon searching, most videos instruct on how to remove a long constant background noise like a hiss or a fan but i have short bursts of aggressive sounds so its hard for me to eliminate them accross a longer clip without distorting the rest of the audio.

Thanks again

[Brendon Abel]

Definitely a good starting point, thanks for the tips guys. As for the image stabilizing, if I have footage going up a staircase or moving around inside a house, can it still be improved? or will it eventually crop the whole image away?