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KSTONER wrote on 8/22/2011, 6:47 PM
I think I might have to make one giant movie and if that's the case, is it possible to just used the DVD/Audio streams already rendered in Vegas and just render all of them as one movie? Or will that cause a loss in quality?
KSTONER wrote on 8/23/2011, 6:54 AM
Nevermind. Gonna go ahead and make a giant movie. Sorry for troubling you guys.
TOG62 wrote on 8/23/2011, 7:27 AM
You could probably get want you want by adding your clips to a Music/Video compilation.
PeterDuke wrote on 8/23/2011, 7:31 AM
You can insert markers in the video on the timeline at the start of each submovie, and then automatically create a menu with buttons linked to the markers. You will then be able to step from one to the next either from the menu or via the next button on the DVD player remote control.

Another way is to forget about the playlist and insert each submovie one at a time into the main menu. By default, at the end of each submovie, control will return to the main menu. You can however change the end action of each submovie to point to the start of the next, giving the same effect as above.
KSTONER wrote on 8/23/2011, 11:28 AM
Ahhh jeez. And just after I finished putting together the "big" movie too.

Perhaps I can ask for some advice on this one instead. I put it together by simply dragging the .veg files of each movie and the thing is an hour long. My one question/worry is about bit-rates. A few of the videos were shot in HD at 24p (another HD one at 29.970), while the rest were shot at SD at the usual 29.970.

My question is...what the heck do I render it under in the DVD Architect templates? Widescreen 24p? Standard?

Thanks again guys.
Steve Grisetti wrote on 8/23/2011, 12:09 PM
You'll get the best results and the best performance from DVD Architect if you first put that video into Vegas and use it to output your files for DVD Architect as optimized DVD files.

Let Vegas/Vegas Movie Studio do the processing and re-encoding. Save DVD Architect for disc authoring and production.
KSTONER wrote on 8/23/2011, 12:14 PM
I wasn't clear enough, I apologize. I mean that I've imported all of the .veg into Vegas and I'm not sure what to encode them under for use in DVD Architect since some of the videos have different frame rates.
PeterDuke wrote on 8/23/2011, 6:52 PM
Since it is for a DVD then it will have to be SD, so make it the same as your 29.97 source. If you are mixing 4:3 and 16:9 then you will have to decide which format. The future is widescreen so I would choose that one. Then you will have to decide what to do with the 4:3 format stuff. I can think of three options: black bars each side, crop top and bottom, or fill the black bar area with stretched and blurred video (discussed in a thread recently in Vegas forum I think).
KSTONER wrote on 8/23/2011, 9:46 PM
I guess I'll go with black bars on the left and right. No use having it stretched to the point of blurriness. Thanks a lot guys!
KSTONER wrote on 8/23/2011, 9:58 PM
One last question. What would you guys suggest as a good "render template" for making high quality videos to later be rendered under the DVD Arch template.

For example: Would I render and SD video under uncompressed AVI for use in the "big movie" file or can I just import the MPEG-2 videos and re-encode them without compression

The .veg import was working for a while, but apparently there's a problem with nestled files and the like and I'm looking for a plan b.
PeterDuke wrote on 8/24/2011, 12:31 AM
"I guess I'll go with black bars on the left and right. No use having it stretched to the point of blurriness."

I think you misunderstood me. It is the black bars that are replaced with stretched blurred material. The 4:3 SD part is unchanged.
PeterDuke wrote on 8/24/2011, 12:54 AM
"What would you guys suggest as a good "render template" for making high quality videos to later be rendered under the DVD Arch template."

I am using the Pro versions of Vegas and DVDA so you may have to adapt what I say.

First of all, the video and audio have to be rendered separately.

For the video, under Save As Type select "MainConcept MPEG2", and under Template select "DVD Architect NTSC Widescreen video stream". Then select the Custom tab and set the Field order to the same as your interlaced footage, set "Video Quality" to 31, and set "Bit Rate" to 8,000,000 bps or lower if it won't fit on your disc. You can play around with variable bit rate too if you like.

Then render again with Save As Type set to Dolby Digital AC3 and leave the template at the default.

By default, the video and audio will have the same filename stems, with extensions of MPG and AC3 respectively. Just load up the video file into DVDA and the audio will follow. (They must be in the same folder as well). If not, you will have to load in the audio as well.

Unless you have unusual circumstances, ALWAYS make compliant MPEG2 and AC3 files in Vegas and never ask DVDA to render for you. If you are rendering again you are more than likely losing quality and certainly wasting time. DVDA is only single threaded and has fewer options that can be set.