Newbie with a deadline..help with project sequence

BPB wrote on 6/18/2003, 5:24 PM

I have edited and added audience sweetner to a concert video. Captured my work back out to mini DV . I recaptured 4 songs I wanted for DVD into vegas 4 and added front title and credits.

Do I now render to mpeg THEN inport to DVD architect for menu building or go directly to DVD architect and THEN render.

Just regrouping from a disastrous Pinnacle experience ..bought a new dell and am looking to really see vegas shine .Thanks in advance
bryan

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BrianStanding wrote on 6/18/2003, 5:32 PM

Rendering to MPEG-2 from Vegas will give you more options, such as:
- setting markers in the timeline for DVD Architect to use as chapter points;
- 24p MPEG-2 files;
- working with a 5.1 audio mix;

Pick one of Vegas' DVD Architect compatible presets and fire away.

Remember, you'll have to encode the audio separately -- either as AC3 or PCM uncompressed audio.

BPB wrote on 6/18/2003, 5:47 PM

Thanks BStanding I'm going with Stereo pcm 16bit 48k as it was a board tape I've livened up with acoustic mirror and some flown in audience. Not much to work with for surround. So.. pick my parameters in vegas ..render then open up in DVD. My audio is already pcm 16b 48k will pass through unaffected?

BPB wrote on 6/19/2003, 2:21 AM

BStandingthanks fo rthe help..
how do I encode separately..do i have to resync audio?
Do I choose the DVD Architect NTSC template (video only) then do a second pass on the audio? And would that be before or after Menu construction?

Sorry I'm a little thick on this.

BillyBoy wrote on 6/19/2003, 8:12 AM

Yes... that's one option. The "trick" if you go that way is when you render the audio in Vegas give THAT file the SAME NAME (expect file extension of course) as you used for Video. Then DVD-A will pick it up by itself.

The alternate method... (I prefer)

Just make ONE render in Vegas using the DV NTSC template and MPEG-2 as file type.
When it comes time to finish up, DVD-A all by itself will reencode the audio stream. If you're not worried about surround, the way I would go if you haven't rendered yet.

The somewhat confusing part is in DVD-A once you're done menu building, adding chapters, menu background music and so on, you need to go through a three step finishing process. The first checks your files and re renders what it has to. The second makes the image files needed for the DVD. The final step is the actual burning. The first step if applied to video files can take a lot of time. If however you already rendered to MPEG-2 in Vegas the only files getting rendered again are the audio portion and that flys. So the only downside to rerendering in DVD-A is if you got so much material and you're trying to squeeze it all on then the video portion will get adjusted too. Otherwise not. Hope this don't confuse you more. <wink>