[Mike Kujbida]

Make sure the Border FX is before Pan/Crop in the FX window. You do this by dragging it to the correct position.

[Mike Kujbida]

[Dave Riem] “I’m having the same problem except I’m using Vegas Pro 9 and my galaxy s3 videos only show up as a black screen with audio”

I have a Galaxy S3 as well and have no issues playing video from it on Pro 9. Make sure you have the latest build installed (9.0e Build 1147). I have QuickTime Player 7.6.8 installed on my machine as I’ve found that newer versions of it messed things up.

[Mike Kujbida]

James, my sympathies as I was really hoping that this video would be done by now 🙁

Have you ever installed ANY kind of codec pack, specifically the one from K-Lite as it’s known to cause grief to Vegas users everywhere.

I have no idea why your AC-3 file was rejected as this is what Vegas likes to see. You did the right thing trying a WAV file as that’s also acceptable.
The only thing I can think of is to do a reinstall of DVD Architect (and possibly Vegas too but try DVDA first) and see if that fixes things.

“I noticed for the first time that, when I go to burn the DVD, the notices say:
“The video on track 2 ‘Video’ will be recompressed.”
Is this bad?”

It means is that, for whatever reason, your rendered video did not meet the specs required for DVD Architect.
Sony has an article on this on their Knowledge Base page at Avoiding recompression in DVD Architect.
I’ve had this happen to me a few times over the years and when I go back and check my render settings, I’ve done something wrong somewhere.

Please post screenshots of your render settings, both video and audio. If there are multiple screens for either one, please post all of them. One way or another I’m determined to get to the bottom of this problem 🙂

You were concerned about the render quality on your final product. Your source footage is HD while DVD is only SD so unfortunately you will loose a fair amount of quality and there’s not much that you can do about it.

If your clients want an HD version and you have it as an option , use the Internet 1280×720-30p template found under Sony AVC/MVC type and give it to them on a USB stick or burn it to a DVD but tell them it’s designed for computer playback, not on a DVD player.
I rendered out the file you gave me using this template. It’s at Tape 16 – 3 – North Marion 3.mp4

[Mike Kujbida]

James, the file is finally ready. I had to go looking for that font and I’m on a slow DSL line here but here it is. I used the settings mentioned earlier in this thread. It looks good to me but I’ll let you be the final judge of it. FYI, not that it makes a difference but the source video is 1440 x 1080.
Tape 16 – 3 – North Marion 3.mpg

[Mike Kujbida]

I got your clip.
Can you give me an example of the text you’re using (i.e. font, color and size).

[Mike Kujbida]

Source footage please. Thanks.

[Mike Kujbida]

That’s too high of a bitrate and doesn’t allow any room for your audio file. The result will be a DVD that may skip badly. I’ve authored thousands of DVDs over the years and have never gone over the 8,000,000 limit.

What was the quality of your source video?
Can you upload a small piece to a sharing site such as Dropbox to let us play with it and see how it turns out?

[Mike Kujbida]

My pleasure. Always glad to help.

[Mike Kujbida]

Glad that the images helped you.

For 1280 x 720 source video, you want to go with 16:9 mode.
Be advised that this will not perfectly match a 720 x 480 widescreen video in that you will be left with very small black bars on the sides on your video. The simple workaround for this is to check the Stretch video to fill output frame size (do not letterbox) option as shown below (just above the cursor).

[Mike Kujbida]

This is very difficult to troubleshoot over the net, especially when I use Vegas Pro and DVDA Pro and you’re using Movie Studio versions 🙁

In my opinion, a 2-pass render for a 38 minute video is a waste of render time.

When I go File- Render As I get the following screen.

I then click the Custom button and then the Video tab so that I can change the bitrate to a Constant value of 8,000,000. This can be saved as a preset if you want to.

“Also, it’s not the Vegas render that I can’t change the frame rate of, it’s the DVD Architect Studio settings I can’t change from 30fps.”

That option isn’t available even in DVDA Pro so don’t worry about it. DVDA knows if it’s a 24p file and adjusts accordingly.

I highly recommend searching for 24p in the Vegas online help menu and see what it says. Good luck.