John Rofrano
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Is the combined size of the files smaller than the capacity of the DVD disc? A DVD can hold about 4.7GB of data files. M2T files are approximately 13GB/hr which means the longest playing file you can fit on a DVD is about 20 min. Also when Windows copies files to a CD or DVD it actually copies them to a temp location on your C: drive first. That location needs to have enough room to hold the files as well.
If dragging and dripping in Windows doesn’t work, you may need to use a burning program to make the disc. I use to use Nero but not any more. It can really mess up your video editing machine with all of the junk it installs and it is incompatible with applications like Boris RED. I think Nero 6 was the last version that was worth using. Use whatever burning program you might have to make the disc if native Windows doesn’t work.
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What format did you render it to? How did you try and play it? It is possible that the player you used cannot play the file depending on what codec was used to encode it.
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You could also burn it to one dual-layer DVD instead of two single-layer DVD’s. That might be better for them. Then they will have one DVD of the wedding and one DL-DVD of 4.5 hrs of dancing.
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> One more question (I hope)
Nope. I see two questions. 😉
> I now have the M2t file extension on the clips–is this a true Mpeg2 file?
Well… define “true”. It is an MPEG-2 Transport Stream file used by HDV cameras and Blu-ray discs. It is NOT an MPEG-2 format that would work with a DVD player.
> Also, when I go to copy the files to a disc, the message says it is unable to copy the file? Help.
How are you copying files to disc when it says you can’t copy?
I guess it’s a little late to be asking this but better late then never:
What exactly are you trying to do?
(a) Author a DVD?
(b) Author a Blu-ray disc?
(c) Copy a data file to a data disc?
(d) None of the aboveI’m just not clear on what you are trying to accomplish so it’s hard to give you advice.
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I believe that the AC3 renderer comes with a licensing fee to Dolby Digital which means that Sony cannot include it in the trial download. You’ll have to purchase the product to get the AC3 license.
What you can do for now is render to a WAV file format. Both WAV and AC3 are acceptable audio formats for NTSC DVD’s. That should at least allow you to complete this project with the trial.
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> OK, so there is no choker and no edge color correction in Vegas.
Nope.
> Are both CineGobs and Digital Fusion chroma keyer Vegas-compatible plugins? Or are they third party apps?
They are 3rd party stand-alone apps that would require you to render your footage out of Vegas to import into them and then render the results back out into a 32-bit format that supports alpha channel to re-import back into Vegas. (which is why I use Boris Red) 😉
> I have BorisRed in demo version. Couldn’t figure out where the keyer was.
Try Filters | Keys and Matte | BCC Chroma Key and after that add Filters | Keys and Matte | BCC Matte Cleanup or BCC Matte Choker. Finish it off with BCC Light Wrap on that same menu and you’ll get an awesome key.
Check out the Chroma Key Tutorial on the BorisFX web site for more step-by-step instructions.
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> MPEG 2 for video and .wav for audio and the video is just dropped on the audio.
You render them both one right after the other. For example you render “MyVideo.mpg” and then render “MyVideo.wav” right after it. DVD Architect will see that both files are named “MyVideo” and will assume that the wav file goes with the mpg file.
> OK, but the video and audio have to match perfectly as I am making international folk dance DVDs. Any problem matching up the video and audio exactly?
Nope. If you don’t modify the project between renders they will be in perfect sync.
> Maybe I should just stick with letting Vegas make .vf files and let Vegas render (translate) the .vf format to the .dar format that Architect needs.
You are still confused about .vf and .dar files. These are not render formats. These are the project files that contain the information about each project. They contain all of your edit decisions that you save. Don’t confuse save with render.
> The miniDVD type camcorder doesn’t seem to have been a good idea. Even a tiny Fuji Finepix Z still digital camera takes better videos under inside lights with MPEG 4 than our Sony miniDVD 405 Camcorder.
If you want to edit your videos then you are correct. this is the worse possible camera decision you could have made. These cameras are for people who just want to shoot-n-view. If all you want to do is transfer what you shot to a big DVD then you would be better off with software like Ulead DVD Movie Factory. It can literally copy from the camera miniDVD to a large DVD with menus in one or two clicks.
BUT, if you want to edit video, then you would be better off with a different camera that takes higher quality video which can stand up to editing and re-rendering. Live and learn.
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When you say you burned it with DVD Architect, did you create a DVD project and drop the m2t file into it and let DVD Architect convert it to an MPEG-2 file? MPEG-2 is the only format that DVD players can play. Your best bet would be to render to MPEG2 in the first place using one of the DVD Architect widescreen video stream templates in Vegas.
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MPEG1 is going to look horrible compared to MPEG2. Just render the audio was a WAV file and give it the same name as the MPEG2 video file. DVD Architect will automatically load the audio when you drop the video on it. You really want to render to MPEG2 for DVD quality.
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> How can we get these 10 films and the associated transitions into one 40 min presentation with the least loss in quality?
Render to a lossless codec. Since you will be showing them on a Mac you could use the Quicktime Animation codec with the quality set to 100%. This setting makes it lossless (anything from 1% – 99% is lossy).
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