[Donatello]

in DVDA 3 under preference – BURNING – set the “space available on media ” to 8.5gigs

[Donatello]

why doesn’t the sony 30 have a time out on PAUSE ??
i capture on a panasonic 2000 deck , canon GL1 camera, canon elura camera and they time out of pause using Vegas ..
so perhaps some %%% of mucked heads rest with sony for letting their product stay in pause for XXXX days .. if i remember correctly the sony drs 40 times out of pause mode so perhaps it sony consumer products that don’t time out ??

[Donatello]

if your Vegas project is DV NTSC 720×480 … your PI might default to 720×486 ? or 640×480 ??

[Donatello]

for talking heads i use a average bit rate of 2,400,000 (max 2,800,000) to fit 4 hrs on a DVD .. looks much better then VHS .. i have found that using a constant bit rate of 2,000,000 may not play on all desktop DVD players …

you could just drop 4-5 hrs into DVDA then use optomize to see what it comes up for a bit rate …

also if you have a dula layer DVD burner you can double hrs …

[Donatello]

in the US today i think the only way you are going to view HD on a HD TV is playing it back thru your sony camera connected to the HD TV until HD DVD rolls out in USA which is about to happen

[Donatello]

you could just drop HDV clips in TL and render out using cineform codec = should be no loss …clips will be larger .. then edit the cineform clips or you could render out as DV.avi (exact copy of clip in TL and same name ) then edit the DV clips ..when your edit is locked you then hide the dv.avi’s and lead Vegas to the HD files ..

[Donatello]

is it possible you didn’t register the mpeg2 codec ?

update your V4d build 205 to V4e build 239 …then try rendering the mpeg2 ..

[Donatello]

do a 3 min render test ..

use you setting , use the standard mpeg2 DVDA ntsc video stream template , and a 3rd one at a constant 6,000,000 bit rate..

after the 3 mpegs are rendered drop them in Vegas TL to see which is cleaner ..

[Donatello]

are you burning to a dual layer DVD disc??

you must be because you cannot fit 79min onto a single layer disc with the bit rate you are using .. IMO if it is fitting on a single layer then DVDA or whatever DVD software you are using is re-rendering the mpeg2 to fit it on a single layer = noisy, soft image, faded colors …

[Donatello]

does it hang when while opening the media manager library?

you might try uninstalling V6 , sony media manager , and SQL sony desktop ?
there are 3 pieces …

then go to windows update ( use CUSTOM not express) and make sure you have the NET 1.1 service pack , and NET 1.1 security updates – if windows update doesn’t show em then you have em …

now reintsall V6c

i had some problems with a few V6 versions on one computer out of 6 … the current V6c is working on it .. i did have to completely uninstall all 3 parts of earlier version …