DVDit PE Compression Question

hycotuss wrote on 5/14/2003, 2:47 PM

Hey everyone, I'm using VV3 to capture DV tape and the authoring program I have is DVDit! PE 2.5, Pioneer 105 DVD-R to burn.

Last night I rendered out about 12 minutes of video to .avi from VV3 that had few FX and music and titles. I brought the .avi into DVDit! and it literally must have taking near 2 hours to create the VOB files. It took the uncompressed .avi from about 2.58GB (12 min of video) down to 850 MB in the Video_ts folder.

DVDit! is obviously doing it's own compression - which I don't want. I've been told that if I render out of VV3 as a DVD mpeg2 that DVDit! should leave it alone and it takes very quick to create the VOB structure. Is this true? I have not been able to test it yet. DVDit! doesn't seem to give you any information as to what the hell it's doing, so I don't even know how you would know if your .mpeg2 is being compressed by DVDit!

Basically, from now on I'll be rendering out as a DVD mpeg2, or rendering out an .avi then bringing it into another program to do the mpeg2 converting - but I need to know how I can get DVDit! to leave my files alone! I don't want double compression - thanks to anyone who knows what's up regarding this.

Thanks

Comments

rextilleon wrote on 5/14/2003, 2:54 PM

Well it makes sense that if you bring an avi into any authoring program that it has to convert it to mpeg2 before burning----I would think that if you rendered it out of Vegas as an mpeg2, then the burning should take less time---I would think that DVDit would support other mpeg2 encoders but who knows.

jetdv wrote on 5/14/2003, 3:01 PM

Yes, DVDit will use MPEG2 files created in Vegas without recompression. And, yes, the AVI file will be converted to MPEG2 since DVDs cannot be AVI.

hycotuss wrote on 5/14/2003, 5:03 PM

thanks for the info, I realize the .avi needed to be compressed, I was just commenting and taken back at the amount of time it took, 2 hours for 12 minutes??

So I just wanted to make sure if I got my video into the DVD mpeg2 format that DVDit! would not try to do some kind of recompression on the mpeg, because I've heard both ways, that it doesn't, and that it does still mess with it?

From these replies it sounds like it shouldn't mess with it. I will dump an mpeg2 into DVDit! tonight and see what's up. Again, thank you.

Chanimal wrote on 5/14/2003, 6:00 PM

Anytime I see someone use DVDit I cringe. This is just the first of your problems. Has it crashed yet? What about when you render at too high a bit rate and it doesn't tell you untill near the end of the rendering. Or when you use a non-compliant sound file for a DVD menu background, it previews fine, but then tells you about the incorrect format...after it has almost finished rendering. Most of the errors seem to come up after you have spent forever waiting for it to render.

I have two editions of this program and it has always been a paid. I was happy to get away from it--it has little documentation, their website stinks, and their support recommends you get "MyDVD" since it is better code.

I now use DVDArchitect from SF and it works much better. Good luck.