2 pass encoding

centaur wrote on 11/15/2004, 11:23 AM

I was wondering if you guys knew if sony/vegas software was capable of 2 pass VBR MPEG2 encoding. I find it to be quite beautiful, but my dvd authoring program is not very stable when it comes time to burn the dvd image.

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ScottW wrote on 11/15/2004, 11:42 AM

you can enable 2 pass VBR as an encoding option if you render the mpeg from Vegas.

--Scott

centaur wrote on 11/15/2004, 6:33 PM

thanks,
I'm looking more for a DVD authoring program though. I edit on a mac, but believe it or not, the 2 pass encoding on Compressor is unbeleviably slow and you can't use the chapters when importing the video into Imovie. I've found my PC to be more efficient and Adobe Encore's MC 2 pass encoding is as good as I've seen. The only thing is, Encore's prone to ruining my discs for "unknown error"(s).

cbrillow wrote on 11/16/2004, 6:09 AM

At the present time, you can't purchase DVD Architect 2 separately. It's only sold with Vegas 5 which would make for quite an expensive DVD authoring-only solution for you. And, as a previous message pointed out, Vegas is required in order to activeate 2-pass encoding.

ScottW wrote on 11/16/2004, 6:14 AM

One option then would be to not burn with Encore, just author/prepare and then use something like Nero to perform the actual burn.

--Scott