[Michal Goldstein]

The project is a 5 hour wedding video. I also need to render it for Bluray. What would be the best setting to render it quickly? My computer is speed inc. 🙂

[Michal Goldstein]

Thanks. How are editors getting their videos out so much quicker?

[Michal Goldstein]

Ok. Will give it a try.

[Michal Goldstein]

Let me just make sure I understand…
I create a menu and bring in my asset. I like my menu to have all the links on the home page, and there is one link that plays the whole video.

Where would I set it to automatic?

[Michal Goldstein]

Thank you. Thank you.
Finally someone is making sense.
What file type should I render from Vegas? Are you saying that I should create a hi-quality file and then encode it?
Here are my steps.
1. I edit the video in Vegas.
2. I render it to the mpeg-2 preset (either “dvd architect” or “bluray”)
3. I bring that file into Encore as an asset.
4. I create my menu and link all the buttons to the right place. It plays beautifully at this point, and the quality is nice for the bluray, but I’m seeing the fuzziness in the DVDs.
5. The output size is too large, so it automatically brings the file into AME when I click “transcode” – and I’m left with tons of presets to choose from.
6. I figured out a good bitrate and set it for render. It took time, and then it still didn’t fit…

How can I take my file from Vegas and render it customized to fit my size limit?

What do you think is the best program to edit in that gives the best encoding? I’m willing to figure out another program if I hear good about it. I have Premiere CS6, Edius7, and Vegas 12, but work best and quickest in Vegas… I also, genarally use DVD architect to build my DVDs, but just started trying out Encore as I appreciate it’s ability to work together with Photoshop.

Any ideas?
Thanks so much!

[Michal Goldstein]

I generally use Vegas to edit as I find it quick and easy. I can finish a wedding video in an hour with a very satisfied client. My main problem is that with using the DVD architect template to prepare for DVD, I’m getting such bad quality discs. (only when down-converting from HD to SD). I see that it’s a big problem, but there’s got to be an answer to it.
I was told that Edius is much better in that it doesn’t “render”, so the quality is much better. This person told me to edit in Edius and create my menus in Encore. I’m a graphic designer, so I’m very fluent with the Adobe interface, making Encore easy to figure out. Problem is that it doesn’t have the same features as DVD Architect. I can’t just import a large video and have Encore compress based on the media size that I want to fit it to. (unless I just didn’t figure it out yet!)

Someone told me to use a bitrate calculator to figure out the best bitrate based on the project and it’s great. Problem is that you can’t do more than 9.8bps on a DVD and I’m not getting that crisp quality that I want.

Basically, this job that I’m working on now, and trying to be done with, is a wedding that edited, is 5 hours and 15 minutes. Most of the footage was shot in HD, but for a couple parts they had a second camera crew and it was shot in SD widescreen on mini DVs. I divided the project to fit onto 2 Bluray but the file size was still too large for Encore, and since there is no “fit to disc” option, I’d need to bring it into AME. There are so many settings, and they don’t tell you what the final size will be – and the render takes so long!!

So my 2 problems are:
1. I need the best settings to get this video from Vegas to 2 BD in Encore.

2. I need the best settings for 4 DVDs – I’m using DL.

Thanks for everyone’s replies.
I can’t wait to get to the bottom of this!

[Michal Goldstein]

I tried encoding the file in AME but when I brought it into Encore as a transcoded asset it showed me a red screen and the quality was terrible! Since I split the media into 2 parts, it was down to 22GB, so I thought I had finally got it – was quite disappointed as the client wants their wedding video already!

[Michal Goldstein]

It was an HD file 1920×1080.
What would be the best settings in both Edius and vegas to export the file to Encore for DVD/bluray authoring?

[Michal Goldstein]

It says “untranscoded”. I specifically rendered it as an mpeg2 bluray settings in Vegas… I just can’t figure out what settings to use to get it into Encore without it having to transcode it again…