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MSmart wrote on 7/18/2007, 2:41 PM
Render it using "Make Movie" to create a AVI file on your hard drive. Launch DVDA and drag the new file into it.
hcgc wrote on 7/18/2007, 6:17 PM
Thank you very much.
Ivan Lietaert wrote on 7/18/2007, 9:57 PM
Do NOT make an AVI file, but render it to an mpg file (mpg2 using Sony's Mainconcept mpg2codec. This will make the dvd creation process in DVDA much faster, and you'll get the same result! It will also save diskspace, because mpg is smaller. You only need to render as avi if you're planning on printing on tape.
hcgc wrote on 7/18/2007, 10:43 PM
Thanks for saving me the headaches.
Superman wrote on 7/19/2007, 5:15 AM
"Do NOT make an AVI file, but render it to an mpg file (mpg2 using Sony's Mainconcept mpg2codec. This will make the dvd creation process in DVDA much faster, and you'll get the same result! It will also save diskspace, because mpg is smaller. You only need to render as avi if you're planning on printing on tape."

This is true. But in my limited experience, the advantage of rendering to AVI and then exporting to DVDA, is that in DVDA you have control over the bitrate. You have no control in VMS. Render as a full AVI, then import into DVDA. Click "Optimize DVD" and you can control the bitrate, rendering a higher quality file. Rendering to AVI is pretty quick, there is no compression involved. Rendering to MPEG2 is going to be slow in either program. Yes, you are adding a step, but time is almost negligible, and quality will improve.
MSmart wrote on 7/19/2007, 11:03 AM
Superman, that's exactly why I render to AVI.

I suppose that if your video is short/small enough rendering to MPEG is okay, but I have lots of disk space so I always render to AVI and let DVDA take care of the compression.

If you were to have VMS render a MPEG file then DVDA needed to recompress it to fit on disc, I think video quality would suffer.