rendering from vegas/sony DVD architect

what is the best format and best way to make sure that you get the best DVD quality? Or point me to a tutorial or forum. Thanksfor the effort.

ORIGINAL: michael japan

what is the best format and best way to make sure that you get the best DVD quality? Or point me to a tutorial or forum. Thanksfor the effort.

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I'm assuming you're capturing from an external device?

If you are you go to File / Capture this should set you up to record as an AVI (like Ohhay said it will be a large file) after you capture you want to render the video and audio streams separately. Make all you edits and insert all your chapter markers ( M key) in Vegas. Choose render as and choose MPEG 2 DVD Architect template and then render, this will render the video portion only. OK after that finishes now do a render as again and keeping the same file name choose an audio template, pull up a AC3 stereo or MP3 template ( I use AC3 stereo) and render the Audio.
When you open DVD architect select ctrl -n and choose what type of DVD you want to make to keep it simple choose single movie. Browse to the video render file name and choose it DVD architect will automatically pull in the audio with it and then hit make DVD.

This is way OT if you need more info from me take over to "the other place" so not to upset the mods here

Hi Michael.

Hope things are going well with you and yours.

I think the DMN forums is a very good source of information on things like this. I have personally learned quite a bit from the postings and threads there.

That said.... I have learned that the best format for video is MPEG-2 (and sometimes MPEG-1) and AC-3 or PCM for audio. You need to render video and audio seperately and then bring them into DVD Architect for authoring.

There are also many tutorials available as well on these types of things that I have found helpful as well.

Hope this helps.

God bless.

Is there a reason why you render the video and audio seperately ? I just drop the .avi into my Vegas project and edit with the audio locked to the video so they don't drift out of sync.

Also, if you put chapter markers with the M key in Vegas what do you do in DVD Architect to get those to show up as chapters

If you render your video stream to a DVD Architect template all the marker info gets saved with the video file. You then can go back and render your audio in the format you please. If you have a long project say 2 hours you will need to compromise space without sacrificing the video quality you can reduce the bit rate for the audio. I can't imagine doing a 5 hour render to find out your project is 5 gig!!!!!.
Or if you want to render the audio with a stereo stream and then an AC3 5.1 surround how are you going to do that with a combined render?
In DVD Architect you can link menu commands to select stereo mix or 5.1 mix and that will require 2 different audio renders so you need to render audio separately.
The trick is using a DVD Architect template make sure you name the MPG file and AC3 file the same, DVD Architect links up the audio and video just fine.

ORIGINAL: John Page

ohhey
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Also, if you put chapter markers with the M key in Vegas what do you do in DVD Architect to get those to show up as chapters

If you render your video stream to a DVD Architect template all the marker info gets saved with the video file.
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Furthermore, in DVD Architect you can add to or subtract those markers that get imported in from Vegas Video which is pretty cool.

Obviously many of the markers you have in Vegas Video are useful as chapter and/or scene selections in DVD Architect, but there are often many which you may want to remove or adjust in the final product. And, of course, you can use these markers to derive a sub-menu from which you can suppress some of the markers from being listed in that sub-menu.

Vegas and Architect are cool products and very easy to use ... and extremely powerful.