DVD re-renderins my mpeg-II again?

Cooldraft wrote on 1/18/2004, 10:55 PM

I used the mainconcepts DVD A ntsc stream template. The informaion window comes up with a lellow dot and talls me that the video will be recompressed. is there something that I am missing?

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wobblyboy wrote on 1/19/2004, 1:10 AM

If you render as Main Concept mpeg-2 and you place the file created in DVDA it should not recompress. It will render the audio but not the video. Have you set any custom settings. By any chance is you mpeg file too long? DVDA sets burning preference to 3.95 gigs by default.

Cooldraft wrote on 1/25/2004, 7:26 AM

The movie was 14 minutes that I created with the default DVDA template and it took 30 minutes to render.

johnmeyer wrote on 1/25/2004, 10:55 AM

Open the project. Click on File -> Optimize DVD and then report on what check marks (green, yellow, or red) you see next to each item.

If you don't want recompression, you MUST use the DVD Architect MPEG2 template in Vegas, NOT the default MPEG2 template. The correct (DVD Architect) template will not render any audio -- just video. You must then, as a separate operation, render the audio using the AC3 stereo audio template. If you use the same file name for both (video render and audio render), DVDA will automatically find the matching audio.

Forcing users to do this was one of the dumbest things that SF/Sony ever did when they released DVDA. I hate to think of how much time has been wasted (needlessly recompressing) and, once people finally figure out the voodoo incantations required to do it the correct way, how much time is wasted doing two separate renders, or using a script to do the two renders automatically. Sony should have patched this a long time ago.

Grumble, grumble ...