Newbie question RE: authoring in DVDA 2a

PossibilityX wrote on 7/14/2004, 2:25 PM
I’ve finished editing my first project. It’s a 65-minute documentary with an additional 25 minutes of bonus material. It will end up as a commercially-manufactured DVD.

I’ve assembled the project in Vegas 4 and will be authoring / burning it in DVDA 2a. Then I’ll send the finished DVD+R to the replication facility for manufacturing.

My questions are:

1) Do I need to render to MPEG2 in Vegas before authoring in DVDA? Or can I tell DVDA where to place the various clips, insert my chapter markers, create my menu, and then render the entire project in DVDA? If I can do either, which method would be best?

2) When rendering, what settings should I use to ensure maximum quality? Total time will be 90 minutes, more or less, and there will be music so I want to preserve its quality to the extent possible.

3) Any special cautions or tips you care to share?

Thanks in advance for any help; it is always much appreciated.

Comments

epirb wrote on 7/14/2004, 3:35 PM
others will give you better advice than I can give ,
but you have more control over the encoding process, if you do it in Vegas.
2 pass encoding etc.
Plus on the audio side if you are encoding to AC3 there are some tweaks you can do in there as well.ie setting the normalize to -31
and turning off LMP etc.
I havent reaaly done much yet with DVDA 2 yet so I'll let the others elaborate more .