Advice Needed re: Using Vegas MPEGs in DVD Studio Pro (Mac)

dvdfool2 wrote on 5/2/2005, 3:50 PM

Hi, all.

I have about 2.5 hours of Vegas projects that I want to render and bring into DVD Studio Pro (DVDSP) in order to burn a DVD-R.

I work in a school that has a Mac lab, but I am a PC user, and need to burn some DVDs from my Vegas projects that absolutely, positively must be read by another Mac user. I was concerned that my DVD+R disks I use for burning in DVD Architect might not work in a Mac.

Here are my questions:

1. Any advice for what file types I should render in Vegas in order to bring them into DVD Studio Pro? I tried MainConcept MPEG2 and DVDSP rejected them. I am now experimenting with Quicktime renders using the Sorensen 3 format and uncompressed audio, but wasn't sure that was the best selection.

2. With DVD+-R/W drives so cheap now, I might just buy a new drive and be done. Anybody have experience with Macs reading DVD-R's from DVDA 2.0b?

Thanks.

Bill
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Comments

rmack350 wrote on 5/2/2005, 5:34 PM

Since mpeg2 is what you'll eventually need, i'm not sure why the mac would reject it. You'll need to check into DVDSPs requirements. (Try asking in a DVDSP forum).

Possible problems:

The Mac won't read DVD+R (DVD-R was the format they first supported but maybe they added +r later on)
The mac is imposing a 2GB limit on PC files?
The mac is looking for a resource fork?
The Mac wants an MPEG file with embedded audio?
The Mac wants an MPEG file without embeded audio?
The Mac needs a seperate audio file of a specific format type?

Rob Mack

[r]Evolution wrote on 5/3/2005, 10:50 AM

If DVDSP can do it's own transcoding... you may want to just export as uncompressed .avi's then let DVDSP transcode them. You may need to export as Quicktime files as I believe this is the native/counterpart to .avi's on the Mac side.

-- Find out what type of file DVDSP can work with and Render as that file type then let DVDSP do the transcoding.