Hi,
I am a bit confused about creaeting a movie suitable for burning to a DVD, with Vegas Movie Studio Platinum.
I have two theatre shows shot in PAL widescreen mpg, I have created some simple titles and created a single mpg file from the two, which is 4.52Gb,and I thought that would fit on a DVD, but when I import that into DVDArchitect it tells me that it wont fit.
I have tried various settings, but it seems that some critical options are crippled, which makes it hard/impossible to render a movie so that it fits to a standard DVD.
For example, if you use the recommended mpeg 2 codec together with DVD Architect profile, the custom button is greyed out so you can't alter the settings. This creates a movie file of 5.2Gb, too big to burn. I would have thought that a preset that prevents you from changing the settings would automatically do that?
The only way toadjust the render settings is to choose MPEG1, but I don't know if this is any good for DVD as I haven't tried to burn it because the aspect ratio breaks (I shoot in widescreen, it renders as non-widescreen, no matter what I set as the project settings; it says PAL DV Widescreen everywhere there is an option.
How can I get around this problem? Is MPEG1 ok for DVD? Why does it ignore the widescreen settings unless its set to MPEG2?
I have read the forums and found a calculator which tells you which settings to use, but I can't enter them if I choose MPEG2, I have found AVsynth, which somehow could take the final mpg and then resample it, but its far from easy to use, and frankly I feel like I already have a video rendering software which should enable me to do that, but perhaps I dont?
The 'Fit to DVD' button does nothing at all apart from invoking an error message telling me that the file is too big to fit on a DVD, remove some media. Yes, I know, that is why I clicked the button, and no, I cant remove any media.
Anyone who can shed some light on this would be appreciated.
Cheers
Jim
I am a bit confused about creaeting a movie suitable for burning to a DVD, with Vegas Movie Studio Platinum.
I have two theatre shows shot in PAL widescreen mpg, I have created some simple titles and created a single mpg file from the two, which is 4.52Gb,and I thought that would fit on a DVD, but when I import that into DVDArchitect it tells me that it wont fit.
I have tried various settings, but it seems that some critical options are crippled, which makes it hard/impossible to render a movie so that it fits to a standard DVD.
For example, if you use the recommended mpeg 2 codec together with DVD Architect profile, the custom button is greyed out so you can't alter the settings. This creates a movie file of 5.2Gb, too big to burn. I would have thought that a preset that prevents you from changing the settings would automatically do that?
The only way toadjust the render settings is to choose MPEG1, but I don't know if this is any good for DVD as I haven't tried to burn it because the aspect ratio breaks (I shoot in widescreen, it renders as non-widescreen, no matter what I set as the project settings; it says PAL DV Widescreen everywhere there is an option.
How can I get around this problem? Is MPEG1 ok for DVD? Why does it ignore the widescreen settings unless its set to MPEG2?
I have read the forums and found a calculator which tells you which settings to use, but I can't enter them if I choose MPEG2, I have found AVsynth, which somehow could take the final mpg and then resample it, but its far from easy to use, and frankly I feel like I already have a video rendering software which should enable me to do that, but perhaps I dont?
The 'Fit to DVD' button does nothing at all apart from invoking an error message telling me that the file is too big to fit on a DVD, remove some media. Yes, I know, that is why I clicked the button, and no, I cant remove any media.
Anyone who can shed some light on this would be appreciated.
Cheers
Jim