DVD render and burn output ?s

mark003 wrote on 11/9/2004, 3:54 AM

I have a video that is seriously losing quality when made into a DVD.

Properties of video in my Veges 5.0 explorer
Video: 00:00:10.811, 29.970 fps interlaced, 720x480x24, DV
This was captured firewire from a Sony DV camcorder and it's 60 min.

I'm running an AMD Athlon 2800+ with 785 MB ram Radeon 128 MB 9600

Is this the proper bitrate for rendering ?
Audio: 224 Kbps, 44,100 Hz, Layer 2
Video: 29.97 fps MPEG2 What should it be?

Then I'm using tmpgenc
What suggested setting should I use?

This is what I'm concerned with. I dont like the cropping, Ive lost all my framing from when I shot. I'd like to keep it letterboxed (I think that's the term) or wide screen.

I've lost color and the video looks washed out with my current settings.
It went from great to really poor looking VHS quality and I've got cut off arms and cropped heads- sometimes.

THANKS

Comments

Chienworks wrote on 11/9/2004, 6:23 AM

You don't mention what bitrate you are using for encoding. If you select the "DVD Architect NTSC video stream" template when you render the video you'll get VBR 6Mbps average as the default bitrate. Since your video is only an hour you could probably up that to 8Mbps.

What are you using TMPGenc for? If you are using it to render to MPEG then it looks like you're encoding twice. You should only be encoding once.

mark003 wrote on 11/9/2004, 7:22 AM

Actually I think I did encode twice. I didn’t see an option to just burn to DVD with background and menus. I thought it had to encoded twice in order to setup the DVD menus and motion background.

I use Vegas 5.0 to encode.
What program should I use for burning to DVD with menus etc.?
And you are saying my bit rate should be set to DVD Architect NTSC video stream?
8 mbps?

What option or what program will allow me to keep the widescreen option?

ScottW wrote on 11/9/2004, 8:00 AM

Vegas: Use for editing and encoding not for authoring/burning a DVD
DVD Architect: Use for authoring and possibly for burning (if it supports your burner) - otherwise you may need something like Nero to do the actual burn.

If your source material really is widescreen, then make sure your project properties in Vegas are set for wide screen. Then, when you render, if you're going to use DVD Architect to author/burn, select the DVDA NTSC Widescreen template. Optionally you can then click the custom button, go to the video tab and increase the bit rate to 8Mb/s.

Render your audio as AC3 with the default template.

Then, if you have DVDA, launch it. Set the project properties to widescreen and do your authoring. At the simplest level this would be using the explorer panel in DVDA to find the MPG and AC3 files and dragging the MPG file onto the menu. This will create a thumbnail button that when you preview, can be pressed to start the movie. If the AC3 file has the same name and is located in the same directory, DVDA will include the audio automatically, otherwise you need to navigate into the movie and specify the audio file in the movie properties.

Click preview to see how things look.

--Scott