Jim Greene
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OK, to piggy-back off this topic, how do I render correctly for DVDA a 24p video with aspect ratio of 1.85:1. I can render easily using Sony AVC by simply changing the framesize to 1980×816, or 1280×544.
However, the MainCOncept template also has an explicit aspect of 4:3 or 16:9 or 2.21:1 (not 1.85:1). Do I use the 2.21:1 and make the width=720 and height=366?
-Jim.
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You can do this (sort of) with a video posted to Vimeo. In the comments, place the timecode start time for each “chapter”, like 10:15, and Vimeo will make this a hyperlink to the timecode in the video player. But you do need to wait for file to load up to the actual marker for it to work.
-Jim.
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If you dock the event FX it won’t be noticeable as the event you want to add next will be docked over the pan/crop one.
-Jim.
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Perhaps it’s my plugins (I’m still on very old 32-bit plugins), but on a clean new Win7 machine, V10 seems to crash way more than on my old XP machine. So I have 32-bit V11 also installed and when things go bad with the V10 veg, I start working with it in V11. At this point all new projects are V11.
My experience with the latest 32-bit build #594 of V11, it is more stable than V10. Certainly not as stable as V8, which I thought was VERY stable, but V8 can’t cut through h.264 at all. There are odd times that V11 will crash, but at least so far I don’t get the veg project in a state that it will crash just by playing the timeline like V10 can eventually do to me.
-Jim.
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I can live with the size discrepancy, just never noticed it before. Thanks.
-Jim.
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Actually, I’m not comparing the captured video against the output video, I’m comparing the mpeg2 rendered video Vegas creates against the VOBs DVDA creates. Seems simply that DVDA does some sort of compression anyway, even if it says it isn’t. I don’t remember seeing this in version 8.
-Jim.
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In my experience, it’s better to do what John suggested first, then use levelator. You will then probably need to use noise-reduction.
-Jim.
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Wow, and I thought there would a simple explanation. So, Mike is correct, I am just curious. Thanks John for the reply, and for the details Stephen, but I’m not sure I follow. I was a software engineer on PCs for about 20 years, so I understand what you are both saying, but I don’t think I agree.
It seems to me that the files generated by DVDA are placed into the VIDEO_TS folder, and that these exact files are then burned to the DVD itself. Just take a look at your VIDEO_TS folder on your PC and then compare it to what is placed on the VIDEO_TS folder on the disc. There is no magic going on here, it’s just a set of files that the DVD player know how to decipher and play.
So, when I add up all my .mpg files, they are much greater than the sum of these, and the sum of these also includes menus that DVD creates. My DVDA project settings are using the standard template, and I am using .ac3 files. Like I said, DVDA does NOT tell me it is going to need to recompress. Maybe it still is, but it doesn’t seem so since it completes much faster than when it tells me other times that it will recompress. If DVDA is doing some sort of compression when making mpegs into VOBs, then what is the point of using templates that say there will be no recompression? I had thought that VOBS were simply split up mpeg2 streams, since you can simply place a VOB on a timeline and Vegas will say its mpeg2.
The only problem is that this changes how I decide to make my .mpg renders. I want the highest bit-rate possible. I would rather know that my total of 4GB renders will be the most optimal, and not have DVDA create smaller images. This seems to make the bit-rate calculator useless, and the DVDA estimate has historically tended to also be useless.
-Jim.
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Yes, many ways. Easiest is to make the CC on the track the video is on. Another way is to right click the media and do it as a Media FX. You can put a filter on the Video Output FX, the setting on the preview window. Yet another way is to make the change to one event (clip) and copy/paste to all the others after selecting all the others.
-Jim.
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OK, but we have been asking if you’ve tried to use a template that Sony provided on the install and you haven’t let us know if this works or not. Some changes to templates have been known to cause Vegas to hang or give errors on renders, in my experience.
-Jim.