[Johnny Shanton]

thanks very much!!

[Johnny Shanton]

Hi John ..yes changing the pixel aspect did the job. Thanks again …so apprec! After changing that specific to the clip i then went in and test rendered some small clips (and burnt them with Vegas Architect to DVD to view). I grabbed the entire video / audio file on the vegas timeline that i wanted to render and then went to “render as” … “custom” … “clicked the video tab”… and just changed the “aspect ratio” to 16:9. This then changed the template type to (untitled). I rendered like this and it left the audio/video together as one file. I then pulled it to Vegas Architect and created a DVD. It had the audio / video .. and in widescreen format.

I’ve never rendered the video and audio seperately as you just advised on your latest post. I tried that…making an audio ac3 file as well as a video only file (naming both the same). I dragged/dropped both files over onto Vegas architect. Architect did what you said and combined the audio / video. Very cool.

2 last questions pls:
1) when i drag/dropped the audio file and video file over to Architect it did combine them but when i played the video it still showed both files as boxes i could click. So then I had 2 duplicate audio/video combined files on my “finished product” dvd rather than just 1 file to click on. Do you know how i am supposed to pull these files in so that only one will show up on the DVD menu to select when playing on your TV?

2) if i didn’t render the audio and video seperately and just rendered as i had been by changing aspect ratio to 16:9 (giving me 1 video/audio file). Is there going to be a quality difference between this final product and one where i render the video and audio seperately as you had suggested i do?

Thank you again …
Johnny

[Johnny Shanton]

Hi John …thanks for the help,….

I’m using a Sony Mini-DV Camera. Model DCR-HC62. When i play from my camera direct into the TV …it plays as “widescreen” (black bars on top / bottom) and the individuals filmed all look normal …(pic is not stretched).

your comment
“After you capture, open the properties on the clip and make sure the pixel aspect is set to 1.2121 for NTSC DV Widescreen or 1.3333 for HDV.”

I didn’t know about making that change so i did that on the clip once i had pulled it into Vegas (changing to 1.2121). Thanks!!!

What should i set my render settings to please?
(ie. save type: MPEG2 …. template still: DVD NTSC? …..I wasn;t sure if i was to go into “custom” on the render selections page … then under video … and change the aspect ratio to 16:9 display.

Thanks again for the help !!
Johnny

[Johnny Shanton]

Hey VVEG … Apprec’ the info. The Droid’s weren’t willing to share their secrets. 🙂

Thanks again …
Johnny

[Johnny Shanton]

I checked and none of my hard drives have the compression option checked when right clicking on the drive. Is there another location i should check to ensure this compression is turned off.

I’ve been transfering the files that i can from the E (secondary internal) … over to some other drives . Some of the files … video’s .. or pics ..etc… are will give me the cyclic redundancy check error .. doesn’t matter if the file name is black or blue. Some will move over …some will not.

Is it possible that the problem is with my C drive ..and that if it were fixed it would fix the issues with the fles on these other drives? If i put in some dvd’s that i burned prior to this going on .. and the dvd drive doesn’t appear to recognize they are there. yet it does appear to depend on the dvd. When i put those same dvds into my dvd player hooked up to my tv it works.

Not sure if it would do me any good to take this 2ndary internal drive out and try moving it to another pc i have here in the house to see if it would work then.

Thanks
Johnny

[Johnny Shanton]

Hi Mr. Troxel
Do you know possibly how i’d tell if i do have compression turned on? If i did it … it certainly was by accident as i don’t know the slightest about that. I sure appreciate the advice. Thank you
Johnny

(its the project i finally finished with excalibur that i got from you that is on this 2ndary internal drive of mine that i can’t seem to “recover”. I was done with it … threw it on a dvd. to give to the person to review that i was going to make the multiple copies for … and now it won’t even play. (Other files too that are affected .. but this is certain the most critical 🙁

Again .. ty … and everyone for the help.

[Johnny Shanton]

Hi … thank you for your post. I’ve got some major problems i think and its about to make me sick as i can’t get some of the files off of my 2ndary internal drive. I tried drag’ing and dropping my approx 1hr avi over to another drive and it gives me that cyclic redundency check error.

Also … another thing that has changed is that some of my file names in this drive have turned blue .. where others are still black. Any idea what that might mean?

Thank you for the help
Johnny

[Johnny Shanton]

Yes … sorry .. the 15g is an avi of a project i completed. All the files are avi’s that i had created w/ vegas of church and of some other projects. They all worked fine until just recently. Most are on a 2ndary drive i have internal to my pc (E drive). Just not sure whats going on and don’t want to lose all of these.
Thank you
Johnny

[Johnny Shanton]

Thanks Terry …. good idea .. not exactly certain on how to do that . but will look into it … might just do the trick. Apprec’ the help .. Johnny

[Johnny Shanton]

thanks Ted …. yeah still playing here … will have to try that too. Much apprec’.
Johnny