Burning DVD's/out of sync

tvgirl wrote on 10/17/2006, 6:54 PM
Need help quick.

I have Vegas 6 without the DVD software. But now I'm unexpectedly and very quickly needing to burn a DVD. I have Sonic's My DVD but while burning, the application hangs, or if it does burn, the video and audio is out of sync. I'm working with a sequence edited in Vegas and rendered as an AVI. It's about 9:30 minutes long and just over 5 gigs. I'm assuming the problem is coming from the file conversion. (The program says AVI is an accepted format, but it's just not working for me.)

Does anyone have some quick advice on how to render this puppy out so I can get a nice-looking DVD burned? Is there a way to deal with it in with Vegas 6, minus the DVD software?

Thanks a bunch.

Comments

rs170a wrote on 10/17/2006, 8:27 PM
Check your render settings.
A 9:30 AVI should be nowhere near 5 GB in size.
DV-AVI is only 13 GB/hr. so a project of your size should only come out around 2 GB.

Mike
UlfLaursen wrote on 10/17/2006, 8:43 PM
Hi,

Inside Vegas you can convert / render directly to mpeg. Try that and import this file into the DVD program.

/Ulf
tvgirl wrote on 10/17/2006, 8:54 PM
In re to Mike: What am I doing wrong with my render settings, by chance?

In re to Ulf: I can't find an mpeg-2 setting. Is it in the regular Vegas software? I don't have the DVD version.

This is my first DVD burn experience. Thanks for the patience and advice.

You guys are way cooler than the Avid crowd.
rs170a wrote on 10/17/2006, 9:04 PM
You guys are way cooler than the Avid crowd.

Thanks for the compliment :-)

When you render, are you choosing "Video for Windows" in the "Save as type" box and "NTSC DV" in the "Template" box?

Mike
tvgirl wrote on 10/18/2006, 2:39 AM
On the rendering, yeah, that's it.

By the way, I finally burned the dvd with main concept. Looks great. Here' s the interesting thing, though -- I have Vegas installed on a desktop computer and also on a laptop. Main Concept was NOT on the desktop, which is the computer I actually do my editing on. But, it was on my laptop. I would have never known I had it! I discovered it completely by accident.

I also noticed that my help menu did not install on my desktop but did on my laptop.
tvgirl wrote on 10/18/2006, 2:40 AM
Wait, I think I'm doing just NTSC on the render. Not NTSC DV.
TorS wrote on 10/18/2006, 3:44 AM
Even if you do not have DVD Architect you should use the template "DVD Architect NTSC Video stream" (Widescreen if you need). Then you render the audio separately (ac3 if you have it or else wav). File names should be identical exept for the three letters behind the dot. This will give you a DVD standards compliant set of files that any decent DVD burning program will handle well.
Tor