Robbie Gould
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I am viewing the MPG within DVD Architect, after the MPG has been rendered and imported into DVDA but before it’s been burned to disc.
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Okay, I understand that Jay was banned but what did that have to do with my thread? He made one incidental comment in it, yet it seems that 5 to 7 posts that had nothing to do with him were also deleted? Most of the thread was a troubleshooting dialogue between Dave and I. Mods, can you please explain why portions of my Widescreen thread were deleted?
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Dave, thanks for all your detailed help. But nothing is working! Ahhh! This is driving me nuts.
First of all, I am using DVD Architect 3.0c, build 133. Is that the one you are using?
Second, in the File — Properties menu, I do not have a setting for 16:9. There is no choice for Aspect Ratio whatsoever. I only have a resolution one that says NTSC Widescreen (720 x 480). It seems like a minor point, but sorta disturbing that our programs are so different.
Then when I go to the Optimize menu and select my video, it does NOT give me the option to NOT recompress the video, even though the vid is only 800 megs. On the right it just says “Recompress settings”, and my options are Use Default Bitrate (yes, no), Bitrate, Aspect Ratio, Resolution and Frame Rate.
No matter what I do I cannot convince DVDA to take the project without recompressing!
Is my copy junk? Should I just upgrade?
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Dave, thanks for your info.
The “Project Properties” settings says “NTSC Widescreen (720 x 480)”, but not “16:9”. I assume this is equivelent?
As for the 24p, I am rendering it out of Vegas as “DVD Architect 24p NTSC Widescreen” with a 2:3 pulldown. There seems to be no option for 2-3-3-2 pulldown. Is this why DVD Architect needs to re-render, because of the 2-3-3-2 pulldown? If so, is there a way to put that pulldown in from Vegas while making it NTSC Widescreen?
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Jeremy, thanks, I’m going to have to try this on various TVs, including widescreens (probably just go to Best Buy and ask to try their setups). I couldn’t see the margins on my 4:3 tv at home, but that TV has VERY bad cropping around the borders anyway, so I wasn’t expecting to see it. On a positive note, the DVD player did letterbox the picture and the proportions were correct.
A side question, when I authored the sample in DVDA it said it was necessary to re-compress the video data. But the file was only 550 megs, so why was this necessary? Does it ALWAYS re-compress the data, even if it’s not too big and it’s in the correct video format?
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I’m sorry Jay, I don’t understand what you mean, can you explain?
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Jeremy, thank you for this response. I have tried it and it seems we’re on the way to solving the problem. However there were some concerns.
The image, when rendered to NTSC 24p DVD Architect Widescreen, had a very slight “pillarboxing” problem at the left and right edges. There were black vertical lines running down each side, about 10 pixels wide.
It showed this way in the Vegas preview, in DVD Architect, and indeed on the finished DVD I authored. Any idea why this might happen? The image did not look at all squeezed.
I am trying to figure out why this might happen to an HDV image. Any thoughts?
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Thanks Terry, I wasn’t aware of the Track Motion ability. This clearly will work for what I want to do. Time to get to work!
Jay, your suggestion would work too. I just think Track Motion will give me more on-the-fly ability to edit the complex sequence I want to do without constantly re-rendering.
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Mike, thanks, I looked at the old threads. It’s clearly the same issue.
My question is, let’s say I upgrade to Vegas 8 Pro this weekend. Will I have a lot of compatibility issues with my old .veg files? I have to render a MAJOR project this weekend (been editing for a year) and so I’m debating between living with the black frames in the exhibition tape (blah) or trying to upgrade to Vegas 8 and risk something changing in my .veg files.
Thoughts? Any help is appreciated.
Gould
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Makes sense, Mike!
I’m working on it now and it’s turning out beautifully! I have full confidence I’ll be able to get this thing looking just like I imagined!
Thanks again!
Gould