DVD - who should render mpeg

eialbur wrote on 1/3/2004, 8:16 AM

I do my capture and editing in DV avi. I have browsed the forum as best I could and I haven't seen a definitive answer on this: Should I have MS do the mpeg rendering if I am going to burn to DVD, or should I output in avi have MyDVD (or Nero) do the rendering? I would have assumed I should have MS do it, but the manual says specifically to generate avi and let the DVD program convert. -Thanks

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ChristerTX wrote on 1/3/2004, 3:18 PM

There has been some discussion on this and I believe that the consensus is that it does not matter with regards to quality.
You will save time if you render in MS and then use MyDVD for the DVD burning.

JohnnyRoy wrote on 1/3/2004, 5:41 PM

If you are going to use MyDVD, then it is probably best to follow the process and use an AVI file. If, however, you were going to use Nero, I would definitely render to MPEG2 in MovieStudio and bring that into Nero. This is because the MPEG encoder in MovieStudio is better than the one in Nero. In general, I would render to MPEG2 for any other DVD authoring tool other than MyDVD. That’s because you know the quality you’re going to get with MovieStudio but you don’t know what quality another tool will give you. Why gamble?

~jr

IanG wrote on 1/4/2004, 8:09 AM

Another reason to render to MPEG in MS is to avoid re-rendering each time you make a change to a DVD. It's very frustrating to have to wait hours just because you want some text to be a couple of points larger!

Ian G.

allyn wrote on 1/5/2004, 1:17 AM

i really don't understand the point of rendering to avi (since this essentially doubles the disk space used) and then re-rendering in mpeg-2. it seems like it just takes extra time since parts of the project are rendered twice.

i plan on always rendering in movie studio anyway, since i then have to tweak the mpg file to indicate 16:9 aspect ratio before burning.

ADinelt wrote on 1/5/2004, 9:36 AM

Since I am working with captured analog video, I always render with MS. This way, I can set the properties on each video file in the media pool to start with upper field first and thereby get better finished results.

Actually, this brings up another question. Since I work with analog captures, does anyone know how to have MS default to upper field first instead of progressive?

Thanks...
Al

PeteH wrote on 1/7/2004, 10:26 AM

I'm having some problems importing AVI's into MyDVD - there's an error message:

Could not complete the last command because: Use of invalid editor : FileReference::FileReferenceEditorBase

This seems to happen with AVI's saved from MS since upgrading to 3.0a - has anybody else had this problem?

allyn wrote on 1/7/2004, 12:52 PM

i'm not convinced that mydvd and movie studio use the same mpeg-2 encoder.

the first time i used movie studio i created a dvd with mydvd rendering movie studio's avi to mpeg-2. later i tried to render directly to mpeg-2 inside of movie studio. at that time i needed to register the encoder.

either mydvd was using the encoder in "unregistered" mode or it uses a different encoder.

starfish98034 wrote on 1/7/2004, 8:55 PM

What is this reference to "upper field or progressive" mean?

mbryant wrote on 1/8/2004, 12:52 AM

I also tried the mpeg rendering in MS (vs. in MyDVD). The mpeg created by MS was significantly smaller than the one created by MyDVD (2.8 GB vs. 3.3 GB, for a 59 min video). So it looks like different encoder. I was surprised by the big difference in size.

Also - when I imported the MS rendered mpegs into MyDVD, it doesn't seem to recognize them as "compliant" and goes and renders them again! Another reason for letting MyDVD do it, if you are to use MyDVD.

Per my post in another thread, I prefer to render the mpegs in MS and use another DVD application (Ulead Movie Factory) as MyDYD doesn't support chapter points (and the "workaround" is not good enough).

Mark