DVD Authoring Question

Dan Sherman wrote on 3/23/2009, 9:19 AM
Project edited on Adobe Premier Pro.
Editor doesn't know Adobe Encore.

So,---If project is printed to tape, can we drop onto the hard drive, add chapters in Vegas Pro 8 and author and burn in DVD-Architect?

Also, project is 4hrs 15 mns long.
Can the bit rate be cut to fit this on two disks?
OR, would it be better to squeeze it onto a dual layer disc?
OR, lop off some more content.

Comments

Steve Grisetti wrote on 3/23/2009, 10:03 AM
Well, even if you're burning to a dual-layer DVD disc, I wouldn't recommend you put much more than 2 hours of video on a single disc. So you've definitely got at least two discs going there. Maybe more, if you're only using single-layer DVD discs.

As for adding scenes and chapters and creating scene menus, that's all done in DVD Architect. No need to involve Vegas at all, if you've finished your editing in Premiere. Just output from Premiere as a DVD-quality MPEG2 and import that file into DVD Architect.
TheHappyFriar wrote on 3/23/2009, 10:04 AM
if you're putting it on two discs you'd find out the bitrate needed for your project to fit on that much space (~9gb) & the cut the video in half. then render.

DL should give the same results, but a DVD-5 costs pennies, DL's cost more.

If you don't care about rendering time, you can put the video file directly in to DVDA & put the chapter markers in. Rendering in vegas will go a lost faster with multi-core/cpu's though.
Dan Sherman wrote on 3/23/2009, 11:18 AM
I prefer placing my chapters in Vegas and the project will render faster there too I beleive.
Is print to tape the way to transfer files from the PP machine to the Vegas machine and should it be uncompressed .avi?
That becomes a real time capture right?
Otherwise we would be re-compressing when we render to MPEG-2, would we not?
musicvid10 wrote on 3/23/2009, 12:12 PM
Why print to tape? A portable hard drive would be the way to go, then you wouldn't have to recapture all those tapes on the Vegas machine.

What were the captured source files?

If you can do a "no-recompress" render in Premiere and put that on your Vegas machine, it will save a lot of space.

4 hrs 15 min of uncompressed .avi would occupy about 443GB of space if my math is correct. That would be the proverbial elephant in the tearoom when imported into a new Vegas project, imo.