help/tips on rendering HD - huge file sizes

peace wrote on 3/17/2010, 3:16 PM

Hi,

I'm a lightweight Vegas Pro user (mainly audio engineer) and recently purchased a Canon HFS10 HD camera. The images look great, but I don't have a good enough understanding of the production process to produce a DVD in HD.

For example, I shot an 70 minute orchestra concert and did small edits. When rendering HD it got to about 90% complete when I ran out of disk space - 280G. The .mts files from the camera were only 10G total.

Could anyone offer tips on the best ways to render this and then to DVD?

Thank you!

Comments

Jay Gladwell wrote on 3/17/2010, 3:29 PM

If I understand you, there was no need to render to HD before going to DVD. Render from the timeline to "DVD Architect NTSC Widescreen Video Stream" and the sound as "AC-3 Pro" giving it the same name as the video file.

Use these files to create your DVD as outlined in the Users Manual for DVDA.

bStro wrote on 3/17/2010, 3:31 PM

If your plan is to author a standard DVD that plays in the average DVD player, then the question is moot. DVDs are 720x480 (in NTSC regions, 720x576 in PAL ones). The DVD specs don't allow for HD.

That said, the final size of a video files depends on the length of the file and the bitrate at which it's encoded. The higher a bitrate you use, the larger the file will be. You can "fake" it by putting HD video on a DVD data disc, but you won't get menus, and the video can only be about 20 minutes or so.

What filetype and template did you use to render?

Rob