freezing and pixelating on playback

sapell1 wrote on 1/2/2006, 7:46 AM
I am new to Sony Vegas and DVD Architech and having some problems w the learning curve, but beginning to get on board.

The problem I am having is after rendering and burning a dvd (approx 45 minutes) on dvd playback is freezes and pixelates on playback.... I have cleaned the dvd lense and also played on another dvd player.

I used a generic dvd brand dvd+r... I winder if that may be a problem..

Thanks for your help.

Newbie

Comments

JohnnyRoy wrote on 1/2/2006, 8:30 AM
It sounds like your bitrate might be too high. How did you encode the file for DVD? (i.e., did you just drop your AVI file into DVDA or did you manually encode it to MPEG2 in Vegas?)

~jr
sapell1 wrote on 1/2/2006, 9:27 AM
My seetings should all be default. I rendered in Vegas, and then automatically went to DVDA to create a template & burned.

UIn DVDA Preferences>>Burning>> Render options set minimum video bitrate 2.000 Mbps

IN Vegas Project Properties>> Audio>>

Bit Rate is 16>>should I set to 8??
Blackadder wrote on 1/2/2006, 11:06 AM
As long as the video bitrate is 8.000 Mbps or less, it shouldn't be a problem. Most DVD players will not be able to handle the video if the bitrate is higher than that.

Another thing you might want to consider is your DVD burner. Have you used the drive to burn DVD's previously? Have you made any successful DVD's in that drive? I only ask because I have two drives - one that came with my computer, and an external one I purchased earlier. When I burn DVD's in the one that came with my PC, I experience problems like you have described - the pixelation, the pausing... I also experience synchronisation problems between the video and the audio - at first they're in synch with eachother, but by the end of the DVD, they're out of synch by a couple of seconds. Anyway. It's a flaw in the drive. If I burn DVD's in my external drive however, they burn perfectly.

I'm not saying you should immediately go shopping for a new drive, but if you continue to have burn failures like this despite changing settings, you might want to consider that your DVD burner may be the cause of the problems you're having.