Help Validate My Render Template Choices Please

Mr_Christopher wrote on 1/28/2005, 6:56 PM
Ok, I have a project in Movie Studio 4 and I want to make a DVD using Sony Architect thing. Within the project I choose
File | Make Movie | Save To Your Hard Drive

and there in the Template drop down menue on the Render Setting page are a few choices and I am wondering what the best one is.

The idea is to save to a mpeg2 file to later burn with Architect Studio. I have been choosing "DVD NTSC" which seems to have worked well. What I am curious about is some of the numerous "DVD Architect...." choices.

My movies consist of three movies per DVD, a collection of stills, movies, music and vioce with minimal text. All on a nice menue page on the DVD (later in Architect that is).

So, are any of those "DVD Architect..." templates something I could/should benefit from?

Thanks for any input

Chris

Comments

ScottW wrote on 1/29/2005, 6:15 AM
The difference between the 2 templates is that the "DVD NTSC" template produces an elementary MPEG-2 stream (video only), and the DVDA template produces a program stream (video and audio, usually with an empty audio track unless you change other options).

DVDAS would rather have program streams, some authoring programs prefer to have an elementary stream (DVD Lab for example).

In general, you should pick a template with "Achitect" in the name if you are going to be using DVDAS.

--Scott
Mr_Christopher wrote on 1/31/2005, 9:01 AM
Which would be the ideal DVDAS template to use? There are a few flavors...

Chris
ScottW wrote on 1/31/2005, 11:55 AM
Does the manual really not have anything written on this? If not, it's a serious documentation oversight and you should send a formal problem report to Sony using one of the support links above.

If you live in PALland, you need a PAL template, if you live in NTSCland you need an NTSC template. If you want to do a widescreen project as opposed to a 4:3 aspect ratio, then you need a widescreen template (NTSC or PAL as appropriate). If you want to do progressive scanning rather than interlaced (interlaced is more common), you need to use one with "p" in the name.

--Scott