[Dan Akins]

Fantastic John! Can’t tell you enough, how helpful you’ve been.

I look forward to giving things a go this week.

I’ve tried pulling in the Dolby Digital AC-3 Pro, as you suggested but I got an error message saying the plug-in was unavailable and that installation/registration of DVDA would free it up for use. (Very odd considering I’ve been using Vegas 9.0 and DVDA for over a year now and already registered both)……any thoughts?

Dan

[Dan Akins]

That’s great info John, Thank you! That gets me straight on the render process for DVDs.

Can you touch on my question regarding the appropriate DVD project settings (featuring my prior use of the NTSC DV (720×480, 29.970 fps example settings)?

[Dan Akins]

Thanks again John.

Regarding your comment that DVD require the video and audio files rendered separately as well, I fear I’ve been using the wrong approach in Sony Vegas for DVD burns. Although I’ve been successful in editing, rendering, and burning the DVDs with the same Canon HD20 video, I’m wondering if this might explain what I thought was simply the best quality I could get for 720×480 rez.

For DVDs, can you tell me if I’m wrong using the following project and render settings?

Project Settings:
VIDEO
Template: NTSC DV (720×480, 29.970 fps)
Width: 720
Height: 480
Field order: Lower field first
Pixel aspect ratio: 0.9091 (NTSC DV)
Output rotation: 0º (original)
Frame rate: 29.970 (NTSC)
Pixel format: 8-bit
Full-resolution rendering quality: Good
Motion blur type: Gaussian
Dinterlace method: None

AUDIO
Master bus mode: Stereo
Number of stereo busses: 0
Sample rate (Hz): 44,100
Bit depth: 16
Resample and stretch quality: Good
Enable low-pass filter on LFE (surround projects only): is OK
Cutoff frequency for low-pass f

Rendering:
I’ve typically bounced between MPEG2, WMV, and AVI (Probably went with the largest file size I could squeeze onto the 4.7GB DVD+R at the time. However, regardless of the type I’ve selected, I’ve never had to render a separate audio file. Audio was always present when I pulled the file in to DVD Architect.

I’m truly a “green-horn” but am enjoying the learning process so thank you for your patience!

[Dan Akins]

Thank you John!
Regarding the project settings, based on your response I assume I’m to use: HD 1080-60i (1920×1080, 29.970 fps)

Do I simply leave the defaults for such things as the Pixel Format, Deinterlace Method and Full-Resolution Render Quality as is? I seem to notice folks uprating these 3 the most on video tutorials.

The Defaults are as follows:
VIDEO
Template: HD 1080-60i (1920×1080, 29.970 fps)
Width: 1.920
Height: 1.080
Field order: Upper field first
Pixel aspect ratio: 1,0000 (Square)
Output rotation: 0º (original)
Frame rate: 29.970 (NTSC)
Pixel format: 8-bit
Full-resolution rendering quality: Good
Motion blur type: Gaussian
Dinterlace method: None

AUDIO
Master bus mode: Stereo
Number of stereo busses: 0
Sample rate (Hz): 44,100
Bit depth: 16
Resample and stretch quality: Good
Enable low-pass filter on LFE (surround projects only): is OK
Cutoff frequency for low-pass filter (Hz): 120 (Dolby pro/film)
Low-pass filter quality: Best

Thank you!
Dan