[Miguel Almanza]

I have DSLRs and a professional camera, and I can test this for you, but I do not believe this is a matter of Sony Vegas, it is a matter of the limitation of the DSLR.

It is due to the overheating of the sensor on the DSLR, and Vegas cannot help you with that.

You can hack the DSLR with firmware and then change that limit, but there’s a risk of no warning which might damage your DSLR. Again, this is not a Vegas question.

Good luck, mate. 🙂

[Miguel Almanza]

Windows DVD Maker will take your AVI and convert it without you having to reconvert it. Have you tried this already? In short, just try adding the file. In the options, choose the highest possible quality.

Edit
You can see somewhere in the temp files directory that DVD Maker (I hope that’s what you meant by Windows DVD Creator) will make an MPG anyway. Just use your original.

[Miguel Almanza]

I am not sure what you mean by “smoothly”. If you’re previewing the video, it’s best to see it in Preview auto mode and then render a piece to see how the output in your desired template appears quality-wise.

I too have a Sony Handycam (SDR10, output is ), and my workflow is to output to MPEG-2 for DVD or AVC for Blu-ray.

From experience, I believe there is an .MTS template, but where would you distribute that output? You’d only be able to view it on a PS3 or PS4, I believe, and you can’t input it again to the camera for connecting via HDMI to a TV.

For M2TS output, use the Sony AVC/MVC varieties of AVCHD. You will have quality loss with any rendering (someone correct me, if I’m wrong about that).

[Miguel Almanza]

It is not working.

Still, I should not have to render differently. These tracks aren’t supposed to be different. I should be able to see the same quality on the same tracks without having to render with all those settings. I think… isn’t that fair?

ps. You didn’t answer what DVD authoring software you used. 🙂

[Miguel Almanza]

LASTLY, if you already have the song, and the lyrics, it will just be a matter of adding spaces between each line, then bringing in the subtitle text and moving the events. I just noticed that it says this in the importing section of the manual (p. 92).

If you have Word or any other processor, just find every Paragraph mark and replace with TWO paragraph marks. Then rearrange each line or event individually.

[Miguel Almanza]

What template are you using to render, and did you check the template’s rendering dimensions?

When you go to “Render As…”, click “Customize Template…” and check your dimensions in the Video tab of that template.

[Miguel Almanza]

Whether you use a plug-in, some software, or do it manually, you won’t be able to get away from the time-consuming part that is the setting up of the start and end times, unless you can find a track already made of the songs in question. Look for websites that might provide a text file.

I don’t know what that subtitles software does, but I would like to try it, too. Here’s the manual for DVD Architect 6.0:
https://dspcdn.sonycreativesoftware.com/manuals/dvdarchitectpro6.0_manual_enu.pdf , pages 90 through 93, show how to create, edit, import, etc.

A quick editing of the subtitles in a title I had shows you can export to see what a track uses as far as markers, start and end, text, etc. Here are the contents of a track I added for a English subtitles, which Architect exported with .sub (although it could be .txt) :

0001 00:00:01:86 00:00:02:13 hey

0002 00:00:03:06 00:00:03:16 hey

0003 00:00:04:86 00:00:05:13 We're

0004 00:00:05:86 00:00:06:50 the

0005 00:00:07:00 00:00:07:15 monkees

(You need the lines skipped)

Here is a Spanish (es) track .sub file contents:

0001 00:00:01:33 00:00:01:60 todo

0002 00:00:02:53 00:00:02:63 Nada

Lastly, if you want to format as italics, you’ll have to do it on an individual basis within Architect by formatting each subtitle event.

I hope I’ve helped. I’ve learned DVD Architect in a hurry, so I’m happy to share info.

[Miguel Almanza]

A quick youtube search showed results with some plugins and some quick ways to edit text laid over the movie, but in my experience, I think you might be better off using a Karaoke editor, since it lets you change color and easily add text at a particular time.

I’ve done subtitles in DVD Architect and it’s a bit time-consuming, but unfortunately DVDA doesn’t have the color-changing feature you would need in a Karaoke track.

Unless you want to have the text just remain on the screen while the lyrics are sung, it’s easy to add the text as a subtitle track in DVD Architect. Lastly, if you chose to forego the CD+G editor method, you might want to also try a Karaoke effect in Vegas or a video editor like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kccvl_vBBXM

Or are you thinking of one like the Disney Sing-Along videos series? 🙂 Like so?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVRi0aGTwsY

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[Miguel Almanza]

[Daniel Ludwig] “you need to export your single streams as MPEG2-files. each one could have 8Mbit, you don´t need to divide the target-bitrate 8MBit by the numbers of your streams.”
They ARE MPEG-2 files, all in 8Mbps constant bit rate.

I don’t know what GOPs are and where I could find that in the templates I use in VEGAS. Which template do you think I could use, if you’re aware?

What software do YOU use for DVD authoring, if not Architect, if you don’t mind recommending it or want to?

[Miguel Almanza]

Thank you for you response, Daniel. I think I understand your response clearly. I must clarify, then, what I wrote initially:

[Daniel Ludwig] “first of all: there is no 23.98 interlaced anywhere. NTSC interlaced is 29.98i and PAL is 25i.”
You are right. I wrote interlaced but it’s really 23.976 originally AND when rendered through Vegas.

[Daniel Ludwig] “I´m missing in your description the resolution + codec of the original footage. is it DV, or maybe AVCHD?!”
It was recorded with a Canon XF105, in MXF: 23.976 fps progressive, 1920x1080x32, MPEG_HD.

If you are saying that the total BR should be equal to 8 mbps, does that mean that in Vegas I should render each to a constant 2 or lower?

I now notice that in choosing the tracks in Architect, under “File”…”Optimize Disc”, and looking at the MBPS for the multi-angle track, it tells me the following: “To avoid recompression, use an MPEG-2 compliant file”, but I am using an MPEG-2 rendering from the Vegas templates, and the only thing I’ve changed is the frame rate so it’s the original video frame rate (23.976p).

Should I re-render the video for the four combined tracks and make each 2mbps (to equal 8 in the multi-angle title), or can they stay at constant 8mbps? Or should I just choose the “DVD Architect Widescreen NTSC” template?