[Don Kimball]

Okay the award for one of the most helpful people on a forum goes to
Mike Kujbida. Can we say enough good things about screen shots? I hardly think so! Special thanks also to John Anderson for his suggestion as well! DVD Arch performed flawlessly and the end result is very comparable to what I was getting in Sony Vaio’s bundled Click to DVD software. Hopefully with Architect I can use my own intro music rather than Click to DVD’s slightly annoying elevator intro music (grin)
Thanks again Mike!

Don

[Don Kimball]

Okay Mike and all the others that have suggested some things I could do to help with the gigantic file. I think things are under control and I will now show what I did using screenies.

First note in the timeline that the file is just below one hour

Super important but in my previous attempt with the gigantic file problem, I neglected to check the “render the loop only” area (whoops! still learning)

I used exact numbers suggested by helpful guy Mike and since my footage had some clips with poor image I used the variable bitrate/two pass option

Here I gave my file/template a name: BestrenderforDVD

I rendered my mpeg file and then went back and selected my .wav file/PCM option and rendered this

The result was a dramatically smaller mpeg file size

and a very tiny by comparison .wav/PCM file!

Okay now all I have to do is head off to DVD Arch and see what happens. The great news is that the mpeg file is nice and small now and only 3.27 Gigs and the accompanying PCM file is only 635 MBs

Now for the challenge of learning how to use DVD Arch properly but thats for another post!

Many thanks Mike et al.

Don

[Don Kimball]

Thanks to the great material I found on this forum I discovered to my delight that Verbatim DVD-R’s very noticeably improved my finished burned footage. I had previously used Sony DVD-R for years but ran into problems with the image being muddy and with lots of noise on this last batch.

So here is my question: If I move now to Taikyo-Yuden Watershield WhiteFace disks I will be able to print some great labels on the DVD’s but what about quality? Will the Taikyo rival or at least equal the Verbatim’s ability to produce crisp, quality footage? As no one wants just a great label on the outside, they want to watch great footage!

Many thanks to Mike and others here that are kindly offering me a great education on how all of these things work.

Cheers!

Don

[Don Kimball]

Excellent feedback Mike and exactly what I needed to learn. I wonder if anyone is working on a super DVD media format that somehow can ingeniously hold 8 gigs or so of material that allows the quality of footage to be as good as the original. And one that eventually results in one DVD that can play in the standard family DVD machine.

[Don Kimball]

Thanks very much Mike. So it appears that with this type of DVD there is no actual label to stick on by hand but its built right into the DVD surface correct? One more question do I need some sort of adapter for my HP inkjet printer or do I have to buy another printer or how does that work please?

Thanks again Mike!

Don

[Don Kimball]

Hi Mike:

I downloaded Infranview and activated the screenshot command but nothing happened at all. Didnt see anything in the FaQ either. hmm..

I did create screen shots in adobe photoshop but not quite sure how to impregnate jpegs into a message like this. Thanks Mike!

Don

[Don Kimball]

Thanks Mike:

Yes to the best of my ability and knowledge I specifically used the specific numbers/calculations throughout the project. Just like in your screenshot I selected the opportunity to re-render for poor quality footage and use those settings. (most of it is fine except a couple not so crisp video clips)Basically Mike I totally aped what I saw in your screenshots for everything.

Here are the descriptions and sizes of the resulting two files:

7,810,758 KB’s Mpeg File and size is 7.44 Gig

Bitrate 1536kbps .wav File and size is 1.51 Gig

These are the 2 that I loaded into DVD Arch

[Don Kimball]

Hi Mike:

1. Okay to answer your first question. In the Sony Vegas timeline the project says one hour. However the finished rendered mpeg file says: 7.44 Gigabytes

2. I first created a New file in DVD Arch using the option for a Menu based project. Then added the files in DVDArch by using the commands: insert : Media – This allowed me to follow a couple of steps to add in my preferred mpeg file and the sound PCM file tagged along without me having to do anything.

Mike if it helps perhaps this is a tip that might help us. A few days ago a similar file that I successfully burned in the bundled Sony Vaio software called Click to DVD easily fit on a 4.7 Gig Sony single DVD. I always burn my DVD’s using Click to DVD rather than DVD arch but I want to get the best quality in the future. I guess there must be some sort of built-in compression with Click to DVD. I just assumed that DVD Arch would do something like that as well.. hmm…

I hope this clearly explains what I did.

[Don Kimball]

Hi Mike:

Thanks to your instructions I rendered my project in the way described by your helpful screen shots. (excellent way to teach!) whole project took almost 12 hours to render! I hope that is normal and I hope the resulting quality is good. Now the next hurdle:

When I attempt to burn the project in DVD Architect I get this message:

The estimated size of the project is larger than the default space available on Media
Estimated project size 9,844.1 M – (210.0%) of 4.700 GB Media

I was hoping DVD Arch would some how automatically take care of this for me but I guess I need to adjust something.
Any suggestions?

Thanks!

[Don Kimball]

Sorry Mike I should have been more careful. The PCM audio settings change happens in the next step when you are rendering the file as a .wav file. I went back and re-read the first post and now am making 2 files. One mp3 of the project and the .wav file. I might have been off a couple of seconds short of one hour but I am hoping the trick will work here. Rather than using DVD arc I had been using Sony Vaio’s packaged burning software Click to DVD which I was always impressed by. Great quality although always a wee bit more contrasty and pixelated on any television I have viewed the final result on. Thanks for the picture step by step instructions. Great tool and I hope I am on my way with this but still working with the files. Takes a long time to render!

Cheers and many thanks and will let you know if I have more questions!

Don