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Jsnkc wrote on 7/22/2003, 5:16 PM
You use Vegas to render a DVD compliant MPEG-2 stream that you can then import, author, and burn using DVD-A, it only renders it once, not twice.
pedro333 wrote on 7/22/2003, 5:20 PM
well when I open DVD A to burn (the rendered mpeg )file it asks to "prepare" file and that starts to render all over again..what i'm I doing wrong???thanks in advance
craftech wrote on 7/22/2003, 6:06 PM
Set up your timeline for your final video and Render As Main Concept Mpeg-2. Choose the DVDA video stream only template to save as. If you named Markers on the timeline as future chapter points for your DVD leave the box checked "Save Project Markers in Media File". Pick a convenient folder to save it in.

Render the audio next. Choose Sonic Foundry AC3. That will give you AC3 Stereo which will render relatively fast. Save it in the same folder as the Mpeg-2 video.

When you open DVDA find the folder and it will associate the audio and video files together. Follow through on default settings and DVDA won't recompress the video.
Burn the DVD using DVDA (not another program). Test it on a DVD-RW so you don't end up with a coaster if something goes wrong.

John
doormill wrote on 7/23/2003, 12:54 PM
When you use a compliant MPEG2 file under Optimize in DVDA you can tell it to not re-render also. Uncheck re-compress. If it's not a compliat file this option will not be able to be unchecked. This means you can render a MPEG2 file without doing the audio/video seperately.

Have a good day!
pedro333 wrote on 7/23/2003, 7:55 PM
I followe the avobe instructions and DVDA still asks for prepered folder...help....
JohnnyRoy wrote on 7/23/2003, 8:19 PM
So what do you mean by “DVDA still asks for prepered folder”? The MPEG file isn’t just copied to the DVD. The MPEG2 video, along with the menus if any, must be transformed into several VOB files that the DVD player can understand. This is NOT re-rendering. This is simply preparing the media in the DVD file format. Is this what you’re referring to?

~jr
pedro333 wrote on 7/23/2003, 9:01 PM
yes but the "progress"bar says "rendering"and it takes just as long...regards
kameronj wrote on 7/23/2003, 9:12 PM
Pedro...

Methinks you are getting caught up on terms. There may be rendering going on so it makes the files, folders, blah blah blah....yadda yadda yadda.

Regardless - it is going to take some time to get your final project burned.

That is unless you have the new super fast positronic organic DVD creator system that uses living brain tissue from inmate doners trying to cut some of the sentence time down or get that early parole. I hear those things are FAST!!!
AlexB wrote on 7/24/2003, 4:26 AM
Pedro,
use the optimize dialog and check the video and audio properties there. If you change them from Auto(Project) to the setting you had in Vegas, you end up with a little green hook to the video and audio setting and DVDA doesnt re-render, if the bitrate in DVDA is equal or larger than the one you used in Vegas.
Regards A.
JohnnyRoy wrote on 7/24/2003, 11:40 AM
> yes but the "progress"bar says "rendering"

Did you add a menu? That has to be rendered as an MPEG file. Did you add any music to the menus in the form of WAV or MP3 files. Those have to be rendered as AC3 files. Did you automate thumbnails? Those need to be rendered too. So there will always be some rendering going on even if your MPEG file is compliant.

> it takes just as long...

Have you actually measured this or is it just your perception? A one hour project takes about 2.5 hrs to make an NTSC DVD compliant MPEG2 file on my P4 1.7Ghz PC using Vegas 4. I then drop that into DVDA and make a few menus with chapter points, and then have it prepare the DVD image on my hard drive but not burn. That takes about 18 minutes. Then I burn this image to a DVD at 2x speed and that takes about 25 minutes. So just making a DVD from compliant files could take almost an hour depending on the speed of your burner. That makes the whole process around 3 hours. Is this what you are experiencing? Or is it just taking an hour and you think that’s too long?

As some have suggested, check the optimize dialog and it will tell you if it intends to re-encode your MPEG file or not. It still could take a long time to make a DVD even with compliant MPEG files.

~jr