I'm about done with thinking through the possibilities and need some experts to give me input on the best workflow method using Vegas for the following business model.
- Clients give me old VHS, Hi8, or VHS-C tapes to transfer to DVD for them.
- My intent is to give them a menu based DVD with up to 2 hours of footage at 8mbps bitrate to ensure good quality.
THE PROBLEM:
- Capturing the video using my canopus advc110 is fine using Vegas Capture to AVI format... however
I have to then re-render the footage in Vegas to make it DVD compatible and find that the re-rendered footage usually won't fit up to 2 hours on a std. 4.7gb disc.
This then requires that I split their "ONE" tape into "TWO" dvds.
The time to re-render is almost the same as the first capture using Vegas.
Now I have 4 hours of time wrapped up to get ready to use DVD Architect.
Now, DVD Architect requires more time to get the first of two dvd's just to get ONE tape converted. Total time of monitoring, tweaking, menu making, etc. is over 5 hours now for just ONE tape.
I have customers who want me to convert dozens of tapes and it's horrifically long to get it done this way.
WHAT I'VE TRIED INSTEAD:
- I've tried to render to MPEG2 format to avoid the middle re-render time using software like Roxio during the capture. However, this captures at about 8.5mbps bitrate and still requires re-render in either Sony Vegas or Sony DVDA. (MORE TIME)
- I've tried to use a simple DVD recorder (Philips DVD Recorder 3390) and rip the DVD in MPEG2 format to use in the DVDArchitect. STill a lot of time involved. Plus, this method results in only 1 hour being recordable on ONE dvd-rw or dvdR. It would be great if I could just dump straight to DVD-R and have a nice looking menu on it, but this DVD Recorder doesn't offer nice menus, just a blue screen with stupid titles.
I'd like to just hook up my vcr or video camera... click play and record and walk away and then take the captured file and put on a DVD with a menu. Voila. Windows Movie Maker can create DVD's pretty simple, but I'm not sure how it does with compressing AVI's and make the video still look good.
Is there a production workflow solution using Vegas and DVDA that anyone has used to accomplish this without too much hassle?
I've spoken to tech support about the various compression ratios using DVDA and nobody seems to have a simple answer on how to get 2 hours of video on my DVD at a high bitrate to ensure quality. Most conversion solutions take the bitrate down to 4mbps or less and that looks horrible on a flat screen TV... not so bad on a picture tube TV.
THOUGHTS PLEASE!!!!
- Clients give me old VHS, Hi8, or VHS-C tapes to transfer to DVD for them.
- My intent is to give them a menu based DVD with up to 2 hours of footage at 8mbps bitrate to ensure good quality.
THE PROBLEM:
- Capturing the video using my canopus advc110 is fine using Vegas Capture to AVI format... however
I have to then re-render the footage in Vegas to make it DVD compatible and find that the re-rendered footage usually won't fit up to 2 hours on a std. 4.7gb disc.
This then requires that I split their "ONE" tape into "TWO" dvds.
The time to re-render is almost the same as the first capture using Vegas.
Now I have 4 hours of time wrapped up to get ready to use DVD Architect.
Now, DVD Architect requires more time to get the first of two dvd's just to get ONE tape converted. Total time of monitoring, tweaking, menu making, etc. is over 5 hours now for just ONE tape.
I have customers who want me to convert dozens of tapes and it's horrifically long to get it done this way.
WHAT I'VE TRIED INSTEAD:
- I've tried to render to MPEG2 format to avoid the middle re-render time using software like Roxio during the capture. However, this captures at about 8.5mbps bitrate and still requires re-render in either Sony Vegas or Sony DVDA. (MORE TIME)
- I've tried to use a simple DVD recorder (Philips DVD Recorder 3390) and rip the DVD in MPEG2 format to use in the DVDArchitect. STill a lot of time involved. Plus, this method results in only 1 hour being recordable on ONE dvd-rw or dvdR. It would be great if I could just dump straight to DVD-R and have a nice looking menu on it, but this DVD Recorder doesn't offer nice menus, just a blue screen with stupid titles.
I'd like to just hook up my vcr or video camera... click play and record and walk away and then take the captured file and put on a DVD with a menu. Voila. Windows Movie Maker can create DVD's pretty simple, but I'm not sure how it does with compressing AVI's and make the video still look good.
Is there a production workflow solution using Vegas and DVDA that anyone has used to accomplish this without too much hassle?
I've spoken to tech support about the various compression ratios using DVDA and nobody seems to have a simple answer on how to get 2 hours of video on my DVD at a high bitrate to ensure quality. Most conversion solutions take the bitrate down to 4mbps or less and that looks horrible on a flat screen TV... not so bad on a picture tube TV.
THOUGHTS PLEASE!!!!