Is this normal

duke_hazzard wrote on 11/30/2004, 6:17 PM
I captured a 30 second clip via vegas in avi format. I am trying to create a dvd in DVDA. It has taken well over 15 min. to rnder a 30 sec. clip. Is this normal?? I am new to this and just wanted to do a test. I had also greated a 40 min project which took 3 hours to render and burn. When played in a dvd player the audiou was out of sync and only played about 2 min. of the movie????? any suggestions would be great...

Capture hi 8 via Pyro a/v link
Celeron 1.4
384 meg memory
120 gig wd 7200 storage
40 gig wd 5400 running the xp

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ScottW wrote on 12/1/2004, 5:01 AM
Given your computers clock speed, that's probably about right for time to encode and prepare a DVD project of that length.

Normally it's suggested that you render the AVI from Vegas, since you have more control over the quality settings than you get with DVDA.

If you pull the AVI into Vegas, is the audio out of sync there as well?

--Scott
duke_hazzard wrote on 12/1/2004, 11:00 AM
Yes, it is out of sync. Not sure how to render in vegas??

I burned the 30 sec. dvd and it was ok.

Thanks for you responce..
duke_hazzard wrote on 12/2/2004, 10:12 AM
ok..
I edited an avi file of about 20 min. I rendered it to the hardrive as an dvda mpeg. When I went to preview it there was no audio at all.. I tried to copy the original avi file to a dvd since it is a 4.2g file. It would not copy to the dvd rw nor would it copy over an ethernet connectiobn from my desktop to my laptop. My laptop shows the file as full size but only plays about 2min. Now I can Not delete it off my laptop error this is being used by another program or user. I am really getting discouraged any help would be great.....
ScottW wrote on 12/2/2004, 11:06 AM
When using the DVDA Template you won't have audio in the MPG file You'll also need to do a render as AC3 for the audio. If you name both files the same name and have them in the same directory, DVDA will pull the audio in automatically when you put in the MPG.

If you don't have a copy of the manual, you should take a few seconds and download it (go to the support section of this web site) and then take a hour or 2 to read it. The very first few pages in the "Getting Started" section talk exactly about the problems you are having (well, they talk about the correct workflow).

--Scott