Movie Studio vs DVDA

dbsoccer wrote on 6/14/2009, 10:15 AM
It's not clear to me why there are two programs in this package. Are these not combined in Pro?

Question. it was recommended that I, using MS render to .avi to join the pieces and then bring that into DVDA to create a DVD. I was rendering to .MPEG2 in MS and bringing that into DVDA to create the DVD. Is there a difference - speed but most importantly quality.

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jetdv wrote on 6/14/2009, 10:33 AM
Vegas (whether Movie Studio or Pro) is a video editing program

DVD Architect (whether Movie Studio or Pro) is a DVD authoring program.

Vegas is not designed to create DVDs with menus.

DVD Architect is not designed to edit video.
Ivan Lietaert wrote on 6/15/2009, 2:25 AM
Rendering to mpeg2 is the best way (speed and quality) as long as you keep in mind that a dvd can only have about 1hr of video. If you go above that limit, DVDA will re-render the video file, with quality loss, and it takes some time, of course. Note that the menus that DVDA create also eat dvd space, some templates (those with animated menus) more than others.
Rendering to an intermediate format, like dv-avi, is much faster than rendering to mpeg2 and is without quality loss, but eats a lot of space on your drive, because these files are huge. DVDA will then render to mpeg2 and will make sure it fits on the dvd.
MSmart wrote on 6/15/2009, 2:30 AM
Rendering to an intermedite format, like dv-avi, is much faster than rendering to mpeg2 and is without quality loss, but eats a lot of space on your drive, because these files are huge. DVDA will then render to mpeg2 and will make sure it fits on the dvd.

If you video is going to be over 1hr, render to DV-AVI. Yes, files will be large. Then use DVDAS's Fit to Disc feature to make it fit on the DVD.