[Jim Schuler]

Hi.

Yeah, that didn’t really do it. I only had TS folders from DVDs to work with. I needed to convert the audio, but I didn’t want to load VOBs back into vegas and encode them again–I couldn’t get an answer if that would degrade them further.

I went back to Vegas and encoded the audio from the VOB files as AC3 and placed those back in DVDA. I’ll burn and see what that has to offer.

[Jim Schuler]

I forgot a question too:

Q: one of the projects i’m putting back into DVDA is a blu-ray disc project. will that audio work since it was rendered properly the first time? And, how is it taken from the .m2ts file that has both the audio and video already?

[Jim Schuler]

I finished re-rendering those audios. Should be fine.

On a related note, I was working on a separate project of collecting DVDs I had made (the TS folders) and inserting them into DVDA for a blu-ray compilation.

I’m having audio problems.

I wanted the blu-ray to project in 5.1 surround. But, at the time of those projects being made they weren’t done in AC3 pro digital 5.1.

So, are these options correct?

1. i keep the “ts” folders in DVDA as it is, BUT I render the DVDA project in stereo only.

or

2. I go back and just re-render the audio of those projects in AC3 pro and then proceed back to DVDA with them.

I don’t want to spend time re-encoding the video as those files are fine.

Thoughts?

[Jim Schuler]

Hi Francois, thanks for replying.

A few things.

1. It’s a blu-ray and not DVD, does that container issue still matter?

2. Will I lose video quality running it through vegas as mpg2 for blu-ray as a result?

3. Why did DVDA preview everything just fine and not catch it on the “prepare” menu (compressions, optimizations, etc)?

Thank You

[Jim Schuler]

I forgot to include:

DVDA pro 6.0;
AC-3 5.1 Surround

No vegas encoding; everything went straight into DVDA.

[Jim Schuler]

Hi, thanks for the quick reply.

I’m moving along adding them. I’ll report back when I’m done to see if I did things correctly.

[Jim Schuler]

I see now that DVDA can “insert media” the proper .VOB from the DVD.

The original DVD was 720x. Will the image retain that–at a minimum–being used in a 1080 project? I only ask because the DVDA preview window looks a little pixilated.

thanks again

[Jim Schuler]

It’s odd.

I borrowed a blu-ray player loaner from a friend to test, and his panasonic DMP-BDT220 played these older DVDs fine.

I checked my SONY BDV-T57 manual and it says it supports DVD: +R -R and -RW +RW.

there is a note that says a DVD won’t play it wasn’t finalized properly. I made them in DVDA 4 or 5 I think. But, they played fine on a blu-ray player so i’m lost.

Would not DVDA alert me if a disc hadn’t been finalized?

My T57 is up to date on firmware too.

[Jim Schuler]

Hi, and thanks for responding.

You mean, drop it into Vegas?

I’d like to not lose the DVD menus if possible. Perhaps DVDA would have something for this?

[Jim Schuler]

Under windows 8 I never had an issue. With windows 10 I have found that this reduces/stops issues when I am ready to render:

1. Do a hard reboot of the machine
2. Do not open any other apps except Vegas
3. Turn off power save modes (screen and PC); mine was finnicky when it would come back from a screen saver.