Making DVD compliant video?

valnar wrote on 6/8/2002, 5:55 PM

My need for Vegas Video is simple, and I was wondering if somebody could help with a couple points for me.

I plan on capturing video in 720x480 via an analog capture card and importing the AVI file into Vegas (HuffyUV compression probably).

I want to make a MPEG2 file in 352x480 interlaced mode, which is a valid 1/2D resolution for DVD.

Is it best to resize it in Vegas before sending it to the MPEG2 compressor? Or should I just let the Main Concept encoder do the resizing via its advanced dialog box? Which gives the better picture?

thanks,
Robert

Comments

owlsroost wrote on 6/9/2002, 8:43 AM

Just make sure that in the 'Render As' dialog the 'Stretch video to fill output frame size (do not letterbox)' box is ticked, set the correct 352 x 480 frame size in the MPEG encoder settings and you should be OK - at least this works OK for SVCD when resizing from 720 x 480 down to 480 x 480.

Tony

happyg wrote on 6/11/2002, 3:25 PM

if you also go to MPEG 1 dropdown on your menu there are already presets for VCD disks. this should work in most new dvd players (it did in mine.) i could not get MPEG 2 to work (of course that is before i noticed the mpeg 1 presets.. but i have only had this for about 2 weeks.), so if you do, please pass along how you compressed it.