John Rofrano
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Ultimate S2 was discontinued several years ago and is not compatible with Vegas Pro 8.1. We are currently working on making Ultimate S Pro 4 compatible with Vegas Pro 8.1. As an Ultimate S customer you are entitled to a discount if you decide to upgrade.
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Hi Josh, You will get the best results if you render directly from Vegas Pro as MainConcept MPEG2 using the DVD Architect video stream template and then render the audio as Dolby Digtal AC3. You absolutely, positively, DO NOT want to render to WMV and then to DVD Architect. DVD’s can only use MPEG2 files. By rendering to WMV (which is a highly compressed format for delivery) and then re-rendering to MPEG2 (in DVD Architect) you are loosing quality.
There is a free script called DVD Prep on the VASST web site that will make all of this much easier by rendering to the correct templates automatically for you.
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I’m going to guess that you are not using a Sony HDV camera and that your camera is not supported properly by Vegas HDV capture. Try disabling HDV scene detection (it’s in the capture prefs). If that doesn’t work, post your camera make and model so that hopefully someone who has experience with your camera can help.
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My definition of a “bit constrained environment” is simply one where you do not have the luxury of providing enough bits to accurately represent the frame. This could be due to length, it could be due to resolution (wanting HD output) which affects size, it could be due to media limitations e.g., DVD cannot sustain more that 9MB while HD is recorded at 25MB / 50MB / 100MB. Whatever is causing you to render at a lower bitrate than originally recorded.
30 min of SD football footage can easily fit on a DVD at the max bitrate allowable so CBR will do fine. 90 min of footage cannot fit so VBR may yield better results but only if there are enough scenes without motion to steal bits from. 90 minutes of non-stop action will not allow VBR to have any benefit.
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Given a same bitrate which is less than ideal? Yes.
CBR will use the same number of bits for every frame (hence the name “Constant” Bit Rate). If there are enough bits for the most demanding frame, then CBR/VBR makes no difference. If, however, there is not enough bits for the most demanding frame then VBR will steal some bits from frames that don’t need it and give it to the frame that needs more thus making it look better. So in a “bit constrained” environment, VBR 2 Pass will always look better than CBR.
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Jeff, I have no experience with Flash or Dreamweaver so I can’t help you there. You can change the resolution of the render to be anything you want. I would start with MainConcept AVC and change the frame size to custom and manually change it to whatever you need. 853×480 is NTSC Widescreen using square pixels (i.e., PAR 1.000)
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I would not use a registry cleaner. There have absolutely no way of knowing what is need and what isn’t other than looking for missing file references. On more than one occasion they have disabled several of my applications because it deleted entries that were needed. I now stay away from them. They are more trouble than they are worth.
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You should try rendering to MPEG4. This will give you the best quality at lower bitrates for the web. I have the Pro version of Vegas so I’m not sure these are in the Movie Studio version but look for the rendering types “Sony AVC” and “MainConcept AVC”. These will have templates like “PSP” and “iPod” that will get you started.
Also the Quicktime 7 format has MPEG-4 Video but it’s an older implementation and may not give as good results as the Sony or MainConcept types.
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I’m just guessing here but it may be an audio problem. Check that you have a valid audio device specified (my laptop sometimes looses it’s audio device for no apparent reason). You can also troubleshoot this by placing just audio or just video on the timeline and see which one gives the error.
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If you are using the Vegas mask tool in Pan/Crop to do the masking just create another set of mask points within the original mask and set the Mode to Negative. This will cut a hole in the mask.
~jr
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