[Jerry Waters]

So then the, “We are going to reencode the footage,” warning is BS?

You have a good solution. Maybe I should send in a suggestion to just throw up a sign that says, “Hey dumbass, you can’t do this DVD unless — but I’m a liar so you should try me and see.” It would be an improvement.

Thanks. I remember this happening in about DVDA2 but I thought it was fixed. I didn’t know it would burn the file without reencoding.

[Jerry Waters]

One other question. I’d like to render a Cineform master (1920 X 1080) of the whole movie. If I drop that into Encore opened with a 720 X 480 widescreen setting, will Encore transcode that OK into a standard widescreen DVD without problem?

[Jerry Waters]

I meant to add that I usually render to a folder with DVDA and burn with NERO. I’m trying with another product Sunday. I did send an email of my numbers to VASST and Sundancemedia.

[Jerry Waters]

“Stubborn” was an opinion instead of a fact and that was improper. It just seemed like he offered a lot of information and you kept saying it wasn’t what you wanted. My experience with with Vegas deinterlacing involves Cineform Prospect and Vegas did a good job when the properties and output are in sync. I was uprezing from 1440 to 1920. That was my experience.

Maybe no one can answer your question.

[Jerry Waters]

Thanks, Douglas. I almost had a heart attack when I threw the big file up in Vegas just to take a look. I had tried a render for a widescreen DVD and I see a file that has black horizontal bars above and below the picture. I thought something was wrong but I went ahead and rendered the file in DVDA (because it was the only thing I knew how to run for sure) and lo and behold it came out looking OK, filled the screen of my 1080 TV and later I tried it with my projector (Panasonic HD 720) and it looks pretty good there. My TV seems to oversaturate. So I have a DVD that works but I’d like a better one. I’d pay for a conference but I have to send this in Mon or Tues. I guess the best way is to send my connection number to VASST by email. I’d pay a consulting fee if necessary. I will try what you suggest tomorrow.

I was able to get into a beta test group that enhanced some of my shots. I imagine you know about it but it was a great experience to be in the group – to make the movie for that matter. It’s late so I’ll get some rest and see if I come up with any other ideas in the morning. I’d like to hear the best way to burn. Thanks again.

[Jerry Waters]

Thanks for the input. I’ll try that. Actually, I think the file Premiere burned was correct though it had black horizontal bands above and below the picture. I got the file into Encore but didn’t get the file into the timeline. I think I had to pull in into the menu but I was trying to pull it onto the timeline. I guess you have to put everything in by the menu screen, right?

I burned a widescreen in another program I am familiar with and it produced a good DVD. I’ve watched the tutorial on Encore, haven’t gotten the hang of it yet but I like the system. I’ll keep working on it.

[Jerry Waters]

Don’t be so stubborn, Marc. There is probably no one on this planet that knows more about Vegas or professional DVDs than DSE. If you’ll do what he says, it will work. If you don’t, it probably will not.

What he is saying is correct. Set your Vegas properties for what you want to finish with. Read the list carefully. All the 24p ones are 23.976. Then put whatever you want on the timeline and tell Vegas to render it out to those final properties. Check those when rendering the mpg2 file. Be sure they are the same. Vegas makes it all come out OK.

[Jerry Waters]

You might use this idea in the future: I had a scene with the flashing lights and those aren’t easy to come by. I took a couple of those $10 high powered, rechargeable beam lights and put an 80% red gell on one and an 80% blue gell on the other. Someone stood to the side and wiggled them back and forth over the actors. It worked great. One part was driving in a convertible when the lights start flashing. The audio guy added a blip off a siren, very realistic.

[Jerry Waters]

Thanks, but I haven’t talked to any of those people and until I can I think I’ll go in another direction. I’m working on one big project and it is almost finished. I can’t do any experimenting now.

[Jerry Waters]

I tried to install it on Windos XP Pro 64 bit that was fully updated and it would NOT install. The progams Vegas requires prior to installation do not install in 64 bit Windows. When I called Sony, they replied, “We do not support that version of Windows.”

You can try Vista but I doubt it works. If it does, or you find a way, let me know.