• Video

  4 answers, most recent on 8/27/2009

  RE: Large black bands at top and bottom of screen
  Thanks very much for your replies, it’s been a long while since I did any video editing, so I appreciate your patience! Ticking the box “stretch video to fill output frame size” was certainly necessary, thanks Peter for this. I have tried out a
• DVD Architect

  13 answers, most recent on 12/28/2009

  RE: "Disc Space Used" does't reflect File sizes:
  I a concerning myself with the estimate because I figure that it is close to the final size, The estimate is always conservative, meaning too high. This is even more true when there is a rendering step, as in the case of your audio. The way to get
• DVD Architect

  13 answers, most recent on 12/28/2009

  RE: "Disc Space Used" does't reflect File sizes:
  Hmmmmm? I a concerning myself with the estimate because I figure that it is close to the final size, and if so--my other clips will not fit on this DVD, putting it well over 4.7 GBs (though added up together, outside of Vegas they equal only about
• DVD Architect

  13 answers, most recent on 12/28/2009

  RE: "Disc Space Used" does't reflect File sizes:
  Don't concern yourself with the Estimate. Did you render separate video and audio to the DVDA templates in Vegas, as recommended, or something else? Prepare your project, and see what the finished size is. Why are you concerning yourself with
• Vegas Movie Studio (up to ver. 17)

  4 answers, most recent on 7/1/2009

  Random Letterboxing of Media - Oops, my mistake
  In Vegas MS 9 Plat, I now have hundreds of photos and video clips edited on the timeline, in a 2-hour movie. They were fine, or so I thought. Well, I went back to the source tapes, and I can't believe it - seven tapes are in widescreen, but they are
• DVD Architect

  One answer, on 5/27/2009

  Fun Glitch
  Has anyone else experienced anything like this?: Created a DVD with lots of small files. All the video tracks point to the right files, the size estimation is right, did a test no problem. Came back later, and EVERY SINGLE movie file now is only
• DVD Architect

  One answer, on 5/11/2009

  RE: Estimate Project Encoding ?
  1) Note that DVDA is very conservative when estimating burned disc space. Often, it will overestimate the file sizes and prompt you to render when you choose "Burn." This often is not necessary. 2) When you are reasonably certain that your files
• DVD Architect

  10 answers, most recent on 5/11/2009

  RE: What is DVDA doing ?
  I used one called DVD Architect PAL video and audio streams. Not sure if that is a 'stock' one, or the 'video stream' one with 'include audio' also ticked. IO get one file only, MPG with audio embedded. Have done a test projecct with separate
• DVD Architect

  4 answers, most recent on 2/7/2009

  RE: my MPEG2 are being re-rendered when they neednt
  Two reasons: First, there is an old bug in DVDA. While it always over-estimates by 10-20%, when you get 100% over estimates, it is often because of this bug. The solution is to save the project, close DVDA, immediately re-open DVDA, re-open the
• DVD Architect

  5 answers, most recent on 1/1/2009

  RE: Vegas render looks good but not the DVDA video
  Thanks for your thoughts. I think I could up the bitrate without DVD capacity issues given the video is just 15 mins long (estimated size 673MB according to Vegas rendering window), but as I am selecting MainConcept MPEG2 (Template: "DVD Architect
• Vegas Movie Studio (up to ver. 17)

  7 answers, most recent on 12/24/2008

  RE: Video Time help
  thebrain900... When you are ready to render, select "Make Movie". You then select where you want to put the file (hard drive, burn it to DVD, etc.). The next screen is the dialogue box where you select the output file type (mpeg-2, wmv, etc.).
• DVD Architect

  7 answers, most recent on 12/12/2008

  RE: Optimize
  Roxy, You may not need to recompress the video at all. DVDA is very conservative in estimating disc space, and it may actually fit. Open your project, but click "Prepare" instead of "Burn." Ignore the warning messages and prepare to a folder on
• DVD Architect

  5 answers, most recent on 12/9/2008

  RE: DVDA 5 sucks for BD
  First of all I think thay DVDA 5.0 Is OK. That being said Sony has not done their homework on how it will be used. for a few titles and menues there is no problem. The fun starts when you get more than 20 menues/items. I have spent the last week
• Vegas Movie Studio (up to ver. 17)

  6 answers, most recent on 11/12/2008

  RE: Help! What type of movie file should I render?
  Thanks so much for the replies. if I can get this file to a reasonable size, I can reduce the other material on the DVD to fit it on. Right now, if I render it as a MPEG-2, it estimates it will be 4.5 GB. Without having the Pro version to
• DVD Architect

  2 answers, most recent on 11/9/2008

  RE: Different file sizes on subesquent burns
  On the first prepare, DVDA estimates the space usage, perhaps a bit conservatively. On subsequent burns, DVDA knows the file size because it already exists. That is why I always prepare the DVD to a folder first, and then burn my first disc after I
• Video

  110 answers, most recent on 11/3/2008

  RE: OT: Here we go again; 'Blu Ray is dead'
  Hmm. BD image quality per-pixel vs. DVD? DVD has a max of 8Mbps. It is generally accepted that with very good non-realtime multipass compression that AVCHD (H.264) is twice as efficient as MPEG-2. So in reality DVD in AVCHD terms has a max
• Video

  4 answers, most recent on 10/25/2008

  RE: Another feature that would be useful...
  Estimation is not the strong suit of this programming team. DVD Architect even now still can't even come close to correctly estimating the size of a DVD project. I hate to think how many newbies cut something or re-jiggered their project just
• Video

  7 answers, most recent on 10/6/2008

  RE: Weird Horizontal Motion Glitch
  Additionally Mike, could you describe your project settings (pixel size, aspect ratio, fielding) and whether you modified the DV output codec to be anything other than interlaced. - Does the import/clip-properties show non-interlaced for your
• Vegas Movie Studio (up to ver. 17)

  3 answers, most recent on 10/4/2008

  RE: Making a Video
  DVDs are always MPEG-2. Render directly to this format and you'll end up with a reasonable file size, probably 3 to 4 GB. It will also be faster than WMV. How long it will take depends on lots of things: the length of the video, the output format,
• Video

  36 answers, most recent on 10/29/2008

  RE: Pulldown
  You can send a progressive image as if it were an interlaced image. In the DVD format, setting the progressive flag does change how the chroma is encoded... progressive 4:2:0 is higher quality than interlaced 4:2:0 (but doesn't work with interlaced
• DVD Architect

  2 answers, most recent on 6/15/2008

  prepare error--menu size cannot exceed 1 GB
  I started using DVD Architect for the first time--after figuring it out and completing my project, I went to burn the DVD and went to 'prepare' It gave an error message of, "The estimated total size of all menus exceeds the maximum size of 1
• DVD Architect

  10 answers, most recent on 7/13/2009

  RE: Inaccurate disc space read out
  The number on the bottom right of DVDA's screen is an estimate of the project's eventual size. If DVDA intends to re-encode any of your videos, this estimate will be based on the default bitrate or, if set, the bitrate that you have set specifically
• Video

  7 answers, most recent on 3/30/2008

  Rendering taking a long time
  I just upgraded Vegas 8 from Vegas 6. In the past I have rendered a number of 1 hour videos (all AVI clips with only a few still images) to MPEG 2 - they have usually taken about 6 hours to render. I have a 1 hour project that has 3 video tracks
• Video

  26 answers, most recent on 3/25/2008

  RE: Burning a Blue ray disc with vegas - ERROR MESSAGE
  Douglas, I did all the above you suggested (created a new template with proper frame size and rate, etc..) saved it as FAITH and tried to render image again, doing it just as you suggested. OUTCOME: I played with the bitrates as follows: 1-