[Ralph Hajik]

Hi Mike,

( I always use the bitrate calculator I’ve mentioned here several times and render MPEG-2 and AC-3 streams out of Vegas and then give these to DVDA for authoring. For your project, use a CBR setting of 8,000,000 for the 1 hr. DVD and a VBR setting of 7,904,000 / 6,320,000 / 3,972,000 for the 1.5 hr. DVD.)

Mike, I was always under the assumption that when you render out a project as Mpeg2, your compressing everthing. Then when you bring your compressed Mpeg2 into DVDA, it’s rendered again and recompressed once more losing the picture quality.

In Vegas Pro8 I’ve been rendering out as an AVI for video and PCM for audio which is uncompressed and then bringing it into DVDA to get compressed as a Mpeg2 and AC3. Am I in left field on this or what? Pleae let me know.

Ralph

[Ralph Hajik]

Hi Mike,

Thanks for the information.

Ralph

[Ralph Hajik]

Hi Gille and Mike,

That’s a great question to ask on the Cow because a lot of us forget what our limits are if we only video as a hobby. I’m putting together a dvd from the Middle East that’s 2.5 hours long. I’m using Standard DV, not HDV, and knew I have to split the video. So I made Part 1, 1.5 hours long and the other, Part 2, 1 hour long. Tomorrow I’ve put it in DVD pro 5 and I’ll let DVD pro Fit To Disc handle the size. I already know what I have.

On my Part 1 DVD I went to:
File > Optimize > Fit to Disc. It came out to 6.497 Mbps. It’s 4,416.8 MB (94% of the 4.7 DVD)Is this good or bad?
The Part 2 DVD is 4,441.8 MB (95% of the 4.7 DVD)at 7.848 Mbps. What do you think of this, good or bad?
I’ll render it out and burn a copy to see if the qualities there.
If you have any suggestions, throw them my way.

Happy Travels,
Ralph Hajik
Westmont, IL
LastingMemoriesR4ever

[Ralph Hajik]

Hi John,

Thanks for responding as always. The Vegas team we have here at the Cow are fabulous. John, the information you gave me is helpful and I’m tryng to find the source file from that previous project.

Thanks,

Ralph

[Ralph Hajik]

Hi Garren,

Have you tried mpeg4?
DSE has a Fantasic DVD on “Video for the Web” that you can buy from VASST. I’m no way trying to advertise for DSE, but learn from the Master himself and you can’t go wrong.

Ralph Hajik
Photographer/Videographer

[Ralph Hajik]

Graham Bernard,

I knew there was a way. I forgot about the velocity envelope.

Many Thanks my friend,
Ralph Hajik 🙂

[Ralph Hajik]

Hi Guys,

WOW! I’m confused. I’m using Vegas Pro8 and Standard definition, not HD. I’m presently working on a DVD project with around 2000 png pictures with video. I’m deleteing pics as I go along so I’m not using all of them. My pictures and been resized in Photoshop to 1440×960 and 300dpi which means nothing in video so I can zoom in when I want. When I move into HD, it’s like another world.

Ralph Hajik

[Ralph Hajik]

John,

Thanks for the information. I thought I was missing a little step in what I was doing. Now it’s working.

Ralph

[Ralph Hajik]

John,

If you send me your email address, I’ll send you some pictures of Dweezil Zappa, Baron Ambrosia “Bronx Flavor” and of course, the show girls.

Ralph Hajik 🙂
welovetotravel1985@yahoo.com
or
LastingMemoriesR4ever@yahoo.com

[Ralph Hajik]

Hi John,

Thanks for the information and I heard another one was Avast 5.0 Free Edition. I heard of AVG but not avast. That’s good information.
I’ll see you at NAB.

Happy Travels
Ralph Hajik
Westmont, Il