Stephen Mann
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You are asking in a Sony Vegas forum, so I assumed that you were using Sony Vegas and the companion Sony DVD Architect.
As I said: “Use a Bitrate Calculator to estimate the bitrate needed to make the MPEG fit a DVD”
Steve Mann
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“MPEG file too big for DVD”
Make it smaller.
Seriously, higher bitrate makes larger files, so you need to use a lower bitrate.
The proper workflow (there’s always more than one way to do anything in Vegas)is to encode in Vegas, in the “Render As” menu, Select the Main Concept MPEG2 codec and the DVDA NTSC Widescreen template. Use a Bitrate Calculator to estimate the bitrate needed to make the MPEG fit a DVD. Open the “Customize Template”, change the bitrates then start the encoder by clicking on “Render”. (Technically, you aren’t rendering anything – you are encoding.) Next, open “Render As” again and encode the audio to an AC3 file. Use the default values and click on “Render”. Those two files are what you take to DVDA. (They should be the same name – myvideo.mpg and myvideo.ac3). If together they total less than 4.3Gb, then you can ignore any warnings from DVDA that the files are too big.
Steve Mann
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I don’t know if there’s an easy solution, but your media will scale to match the project size. You can use Event Pan Crop to scale it back down. If you have a lot of events to scale, you can save your preset in the Pan/Crop F/X window.
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I’m looking for a good balance between compression and quality.
There is no balance. If you want quality, don’t compress. More compression equals lower quality. Always. If you’re editing compressed video, the more compressed it is, the harder the processor has to work to decompress it for editing.
Steve Mann
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Nesting doesn’t add any more overhead on the PC. If the OP can edit the individual .veg files, then Vegas will work the same with nested .veg files. They are just another event.
Steve Mann
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Yes. Simply put, Vegas treats the nested .veg file as any other event. No matter how complex your nested .veg file is, it’s only one event on the master project.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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I’m not sure which template you’re using, but I use the MPEG2 Blu-Ray template for video and Dolby AC3 for the audio.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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Xvid and DivX are display formats and not supported by Vegas. If you are stuck with Xvid or Divx footage to edit, the solution is to not use Xvid or DivX. Convert the files with something like AviDemux to a format like Motion-JPEG video with PCM audio and the files should edit fine.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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