DVD quick and Dirty

Rednroll wrote on 8/15/2004, 8:11 PM
Ok, I want to make a quick and dirty DVD from a video I edited together in Vegas. I made the video and placed markers where I want them to appear as track ID's on a DVD. What is the quickest way I can render from Vegas and import it into DVD Architect to make a DVD with the Track ID's. I'm currently rendering as a .AC3 file, but thinking MPeg2 is what I will need for the video. Is this what I should do, to get the markers to be recognized as DVD track ID's or should I render as something else. This is my first attempt at creating a DVD video, so sorry for the newby question. One other question, this DVD will be going with a friend back to Brazil. Is there a way to make a region free DVD, or to set the DVD region setting in DVD Architect?

Thanks

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Chienworks wrote on 8/15/2004, 8:18 PM
Under MPEG2 custom render settings choose the DVD Architect template. Be sure to checkmark the "save markers" option. This will make sure you have all the proper settings necessary. I don't recall off the top of my head whether Brazil is NTSC or PAL, but it's a good bet that even if he has a PAL player it can still handle an NTSC DVD. If you do decide he needs PAL and render for it, Vegas will take care of all the conversions for you automatically.

DVD Architect does not include a region code, so all DVDs it makes are region-free.

This will still take some time. There really isn't any quick way to render MPEG with Vegas.
Rednroll wrote on 8/15/2004, 8:22 PM
Thanks for the quick response. The template comes up as 720x480. I know this will be viewed on a standard 640x480 television. Can I use that DVD architect template and just change the render to 640x480? One other thing, I see under the template audio screen, that it doesn't include the audio, and this video has some audio, do I just put a check box in the "include audio stream" and both will appear when I import it into DVDA?
Chienworks wrote on 8/15/2004, 8:35 PM
No to both. The MPEG file will have a pixel aspect ratio of 0.90909 which will make it play correctly on a standard 4:3 television screen. DVD Architect requires the audio & video to be separate streams in separate files, and since you're already rendering the AC3 file you've got the audio taken care of. If you use the exact same file names for both the AC3 and MPEG files, put them in the same directory, and drag the video file into DVDA's timeline, it will pick up the audio from the AC3 file automatically.
Rednroll wrote on 8/15/2004, 8:40 PM
Ok, Thanks. I see this render is taking awhile, so you just saved me from a long disasterous render. I will use the templates and import as seperate streams.