DVDA Play entire movie and scenes/Quality Prob

paulval wrote on 6/16/2008, 8:52 PM

I have a season of my sons games captured on my Sony HD/Hard Drive AVHCD camera. I was able to organize the video in Vegas. I created 1 file for each game (rendered as AVI) and the files were in the 3-4gb range each. I then took the video to DVDA and created one menu item that would play the entire series of games (7 games) and then created sub menus that would jump to each of the games. This created a large movie and when I rendered to DVD, the quailty was horrible. I know I have read about the quality loss with the re-rendering if the size is too large. The menus worked great but quality was very fuzzy/lines that made it hard to watch the motion of the game.

My question is, what is the best format to render the M2T files to keep some good quality while not re-rendering that might affect the quality when rendered in DVDA. Also, is there a better way to not have to have 2 copies of video in DVDA to keep the size to a minimum (I know how to create one large movie with scenes in Vegas, but it appears I cannot render due to the large size of the video captured).

I am open to any suggestions as I am fairly new to this. My goal is to keep it on one disc (I do have DL disks/writer) while maintaining quality of the video.

Thanks again!

Comments

MPM wrote on 6/21/2008, 9:25 AM

You might squeeze more play time onto a DVD using smaller frame sizes, but you'll still take a quality hit. If/when small file sizes are critical, you might consider moving to a more efficient format - 1 of the mp4-type codecs available. You can go Blu Ray, DivX/Xvid (on many DVD players), or use an HTPC or one of the different types of media boxes available - some will play your movies from an external or internal hard drive, from flash memory cards/sticks, or over your network. Otherwise the max on a std. DL DVD is probably around 4 hours of play at decent quality levels - 3 hours at good quality.

warriorking wrote on 6/21/2008, 10:35 AM

Take your AVCHD footage of each game and drag it into Vegas, then render them as a MPEG2 file, That way when you pull them into DVD architech and it will not re-render your footage when you create your DVD, you can then create your menu's and chapter points as needed from within Architech, try using a Dual layer disc, you should be able to fit close to 3 hours of excellent qaulity MPEG 2 footage per disc, I just recently recorded a concert from my HG10 Canon Camcorder, I then rendered my AVCHD footage to Mpeg 2 using vegas, it ran about 1:35 minutes , after pulling it into Architech and adding chapters and menu's, it all fit on a 4.7 Disc with excellent picture quality....

dream1960 wrote on 6/21/2008, 9:31 PM

exactly right !!!!

paulval wrote on 6/30/2008, 8:40 AM

Excellent feedback guys. I will certainly try the steps you guys provided. I will let you know how this works out! Thanks again Guys

Wolfgang S. wrote on 6/30/2008, 3:00 PM

"what is the best format to render the M2T files to keep some good quality "

Wait for the DVDA5 - will change a lot. Stay at HD resolution, and do not render to standard definition, if possible - what will maintain your quality.