Can someone check what I'm doing wrong? MPEG, DVDA, VEGAS related

snowball wrote on 8/3/2004, 6:16 PM
Hey guys,

I have found the search to be invaluable to me when making my first dvd, but this one really has me stumped....

I am making a 1 hr and 45 minute video of a collection of home made quicktime files in MOV format.

In vegas video, I put the entire thing together as one large file with transitions which looks great in Vegas Video! I rendered it as a MPEG2 file and watched it VERY hapily on my computer! I was ready to open DVD architect where I could put Chapter Markers and create dvd start items.

Now that I am in DVD Architect, I am having problems hearing the audio. When I choose the optimize dvd, I get warnings up and down my menu and MPEG files

I am at 4.4 gigs of my disc space used - is that part of the problem?!?!

Please help!

Thanks guys!

Comments

snowball wrote on 8/3/2004, 6:19 PM
The error I get when making my dvd is
The audio on track 1 of dvd_movie will be compressed.

How serious is this?
ghosty6 wrote on 8/3/2004, 6:28 PM
Not serious, it will convert your audio to AC3 stereo.
DVDA only uses AC3 stereo, AC3 5.1 and PCM audio anything else will be converted to the above, depending on your project settings.
mhbstevens wrote on 8/3/2004, 6:30 PM
This is not an error as such. It is DVDA telling you it does not like the MEG2 audio stream and that it is going to re-render it.

Go back to vegas and render again, but this time render the MPEG WITHOUT Video, and render the video seperatly as AC3 - This is what DVDA expects.

When you get into DVDA load BOTH the rederings into the work window and all will be kosher.
snowball wrote on 8/3/2004, 7:01 PM
utilizing the technique suggested, will the quality of the audio and video be clearer?? Or does it not make a difference??
mhbstevens wrote on 8/5/2004, 4:46 PM
Because the audio render is done directly the audio will be a little better. For a bifg projecte the saving in total rendwer times will be significant.

I feel it is a good diciplin to always render the video and audio seperatly.

Video is dependant only on the video rendering templat
wolfbass wrote on 8/5/2004, 6:19 PM
Snowy:

A DVD will fit 1 hr 20 mins on it at 8 bits. To fit your 1 hr 45 min on you have 2 choices:

Either:

Render as AVI in Vegas and let DVDA render to MPEG2

OR Work out the bitrate at which to render to MPEG in Vegas. (JetDV has a very good conversion table in one of his newletters, do a search on here and check it out.

Cheers,

Andy