general silly questions

sopgia wrote on 1/24/2009, 5:33 AM
Forgive me to ask silly questions.

I have been using vms9 ppp for two months now, yet there are lots to learn, sometimes its really doing my heading.

1, I just want to edit my holiday video and slide show into a DVD dis by using the AVCHD format(1920x1080, 30 minutes project), so far I have not able to produce any 1920x1080 DVD yet, only the 1440x1080. My problem are each time when I finishing my project, when come to the stage either "render as" or "render and burn" it crushed most of the times.
I know how huge the file is and take hours to do so, I don't mind that, as long as it produce results, I switch off all my security program when I using vegas.

2, I had tried the free download of vegas pro8, and have the same problem too, but vp8 is much more friendly user than vms9p, of course the cost very much in different too.

3, I been using Pinnacle for years and had tried those free trial for Adobe 7 and Corel VS12, they have no problem to produced AVCHD in DVD disc. The reason I bought vms9 ppp is simply b'cos my camcorder is Sony too.

4, Some people proposed to use an encoder, do we really need to? And why?

5, I have problem to burn my slide show is it because the image pixel too large? It either crushed or error occurred while creating the media file.

6, When my video project mix with some photo images, have the same problem as #5

7, After render a file, then by burning it using DVDA; the DVDA will render it again, does it reduce the quality of the image? I've made some DVD, direly burn from Picture Browser, the quality is supper which I don't get this sort of quality from vms9 or vp8.

My system is Windows XP PV2002, SP2. Computer is Intel Core Due @ 3.00GHZ, I have two HDD, two RAM in 4 GB.

My camera is Olympus DSLR , camcorder is Sony HDR-SR10E

My biggest problem is unable to burn a disc.

Thank you for reading this.

Comments

ritsmer wrote on 1/24/2009, 7:25 AM
As far as I understand your issue the answer is in your point 7:

A DVD has a standard definition which is far lower than 1920x and there is no reason to render to 1920x to make a DVD with that output - specially not because such a render will take looonnng time and because DVDA will re-render to DVD format.

So the easiest way will be to press Make Movie in VMS and then check Burn to DVD etc.
gogiants wrote on 1/24/2009, 8:55 AM
I agree with ritsmer.

You will not be able to play high-def content on a standard DVD. So, what you might try to do is render to a non-high def format. If your target is DVD you'll need to go to MPEG-2; there should be templates for this when you do render as.

If this still causes a crash, you should see if it is crashing at the same place each time. If so, check what is on your timeline at that point in the movie. There are times that certain content may cause a crash, or possibly your system is running out of memory, etc.

Finally, you could render out to small segments of MPEG-2 files, then join those segments into one by making a movie that simply has the segments on the timeline.
Ivan Lietaert wrote on 1/24/2009, 8:58 AM
DVDA will only burn normal dvds, not blu-ray dvds. If you have a blu-ray disk (BD) burner, you can burn your project to a BD directly from the VMS timeline only.
If you use DVDA for conventional dvd, it will rerender your already rendered project to mpg2, and then burn a dvd.
sopgia wrote on 1/25/2009, 9:02 AM
Thank you guys, I got it now.

Have a good day.
sopgia wrote on 1/25/2009, 3:10 PM
Hi, me again. I'll get a BD-RW later but how come I unable to render any file e.g. AVCHD or m2t files? could someone help me with this, cheers.