[Scott Hicks]

Cool, thank you Steve!
SH

[Scott Hicks]

Thank you very much Mike and John for your help. With your guidance I was finally able to get everything working. I did what you suggested and rendered the video and audio separately as AC3 and then was finally able to burn the finished DVD successfully. I’m very pleased with the results.

I pretty much learned that you have to play with the video quality slider to get the best results. The default setting is fairly low so I ended up putting it at several different settings to test the finished file size. I finally settled on 28 and was able to get the MPG and AC3 file to just a little under 4.3GB.

This is a great forum and I’m glad that I came across it on Google as it’s been very helpful. I’m looking forward to getting the newer version of Vegas as I’m planning on working on some HD video stuff and burning Blu-Ray in the future. I’m very impressed with Vegas after working with Premiere for many years now.

Thanks!

[Scott Hicks]

OK, everything is working fine now and I’m able to make a completed DVD from DVD Architect but there’s one problem. It’s not preparing the Audio files. It creates a folder called “Audio_TS” but it doesn’t put anything in there. When I burn a DVD from the prepared folders it works fine in my DVD player but obviously no Audio. There is audio in the MPG file that I’m rendering the MPG file from Vegas and I can hear it fine and I can hear it when I play it in Windows Media Player. Also, it shows the audio track in DVD Architect.

My question is:

When I render from Vegas, am I supposed to be rendering to two different files, audio & video separately and then bring them into DVD Architect or should it work with one complete MPG file?

Note: This may be a dead question anyhow. I decided to purchase Vegas 10 Professional and should have it in a few days. I may just be wasting my time with such an old program. Thoughts?

[Scott Hicks]

I did use the “DVD Architect NTSC Video Stream” selection but I just edited it to have my name on the end for convenience.

I do not have the “Dolby Digital AC-3 Pro” as an option so I’m guessing that this is a plug-in that I need, correct?

My other question was the check box for “2 Pass”. You don’t have it checked but you had said I needed to do that. However, when I checked that box it took 9 hours to render instead of 4 1/2 so I’m wondering if that was a problem too.

[Scott Hicks]

OK, I’m still having trouble with this, obviously it’s because I do not know what I’m doing. Can you please take a look at these images and tell me what I’m doing wrong?

I did the rendering like you suggested and I’m still getting too high of a rendering and now it’s even higher. I started with a 20,829 MB AVI file and I’m ending up with a 4,436 MB MPG file. Before, it was 4,318 MB MPG file.

OK, so here is the Bitrate Calculator numbers I get.

OK, now on here I selected “Best”, or should I have selected “Good”?

Here I entered your rounded down numbers for the VBR and set the rendering to “Two-Pass” but didn’t touch anything else.

I didn’t mess with anything here.

I forgot to set the 128 for the audio but it didn’t look like it made much difference in size according to the calculator. Would 44.1 for the sample rate make any difference?

I didn’t change anything here.

[Scott Hicks]

Never mind Mike, I understand what you meant. I’m re-rendering the file now and hopefully it will work now.
Thanks,
Scott

[Scott Hicks]

Mike, thank you for your response.

Here’s where I’m at now:

OK, so I’m going to have to re-render the file from Vegas as it’s just slightly over 4.3GB (4.319). How do I know what settings inside Vegas to use to get the file under the 4.3 limit. There’s no indicator in Vegas that I can find that gives me any reference on how big the final rendered file will be.