Jerry Waters
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It sounds like you are not ready to burn HD just yet to DVD – like most of us. You need a burner and the disks are expensive and few have a player now. If you want to show HD, some players will play WMV files in HD. The cheapest I know of is the JVC HD pro player for about $350 at B&H. This player has a network connection and a player. If the file is too big to fit on a DVD you can play it from the hard drive of a computer, notebook or desktop. Just install their hardware and connect the two machines through a switch or a crossover cable.
JerryW
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Perhaps you have a problem with the codec. Have you reinstalled Divx?
JerryW
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DVDA does DVDs and you say you don’t want DVDs so you are using the wrong program. If you want save and show a particular size of media you can create Windows Media or Quick Time or other files that often play on some of the DVD players and all computers. It sounds like that is what you want.
JerryW
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Vegas is supposed to release a beta version of Vegas 64 in wide release but only to those who own Vegas 8. This was supposed to occur late last year. When it will is still unknown.
JerryW
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Fitting it with DVDA reencodes and degrades the footage badly. Some here will tell you about using a bitrate calculator and you can download those for free.
I just did a 1:34 movie as widescreen and had to set it below 6m to get it on a dvd. I used 5.75 and it looked OK and came in just under 4gb to allow for extras. On a regular DVD I’d guess about 5.5 M might do it but others will get more specific. I’d try VBR at 7.5 M maximum and 5.5 M average or CBR at 5.5. Use the CBR if there is a lot of action. It should look OK. The experts will be along soon to give you the better answer.
JerryW
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I wrote an answer to a person with an audio problem today so I’ll just cut and paste this from that and hope it helps.
“The usual or recommended way to do a DVD out of Vegas is render two separate files – one is mpg2 (and the DEFAULT setting in Vegas is without audio – have to check a box to get audio with it) and the second file is AC3 which is matching audio (render the same area). Both files should have the same name and when you go into DVDA and give it the video file name it will pick up the audio automatically. Then DVDA processes that. DVDA can “prepare and burn” or just “prepare” and most of the experts recommend just use the “prepare” in DVDA, creating the files to disc and then burning with Nero or some other burner program. It is also recommended that you encode in Vegas – NEVER DVDA – because the render engine in Vegas is much better.”
If you follow those steps you should have no problems. If you do have a problem, give more details on how you processed, the burn programs used and steps taken.
JerryW
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Did you move any of the clips. Vegas can loose clips if the path gets mixed up and you get black spaces.
JerryW
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Why not do a shot of some employees watching the old stuff on a TV set that in your picture happens to be about the size of the old footage. They could even be talking about, “this is what they had to watch in the old days.” I think you would be better off not trying to make it look like what it isn’t. You’d just look bad. This way you would look creative.
JerryW
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First, I would never reencode in DVDA. It degrages badly. Reencode in Vegas. Try a 6M.
I’m not sure I understand your first question but you can do a File-New-Single Movie and have chapter markers in your mpg2 file and the DVD you get will play when you put it in the machine but you can jump through the movie to each chapter marker.
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Thanks for the info. I read that the Sony burner comes with a small program to burn them.
JerryW