Burned DVD looks pixelated

Dominated wrote on 9/24/2009, 11:10 AM
After finishing my project ,Rendering it in best good, and burning it using DVD Architect the finished product seems to be a little pixelated. One thing that may be causing it is that the project was bigger then the 4.7 gigs of space available on the disc so I used the "FIT TO DISC" feature. Could that be the problem or is there another area that I should look at.

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Former user wrote on 9/24/2009, 11:16 AM
If you rendered it from Vegas and then used the Fit to Disc for DVDA, then you are rendering it twice, which will degrade the quality, thus possible causing some pixelation.

Best thing is to re-render from Vegas using a lower bitrate. Some people have posted links to bitrate calculators that you can use to choose your file settings.

Dave T2
Dominated wrote on 9/24/2009, 12:09 PM
Thanks a Ton .. I thought the FIT TO DISC was the problem...+10 rep for the help
musicvid10 wrote on 9/24/2009, 12:18 PM
Dave is correct on both points.

How many hours of material are you trying to fit on one disc? How much bigger was the original file size estimate? What source material are you using?
Dominated wrote on 9/26/2009, 6:45 AM
Ok here are the details on the video

Length -1hr46mins
frame width -720
frame height -480
data rate -28771kbps
total bitrate -30307kbps
frame rate -29persec
audio bitrate -1536 kbps

and it is rendered as an .avi file
musicvid10 wrote on 9/26/2009, 7:28 AM
OK then, you should to be able to do your MPEG-2 render at somewhere in the neighborhood of 5500Kbs, which shouldn't show any pixelation. Use the DVDA Architect Widescreen Video Template and adjust the bitrate using a bitrate calculator.
http://www.videohelp.com/calc.htm

Then render the audio separately using the AC-3 DVDA Template.

Rendering as an AVI and letting DVDA do the render with no controls is not a good way to do it. Do it all in Vegas where you have control over the render.
Dominated wrote on 9/26/2009, 7:29 AM
Thanks for the help....makes more sense now