Off Topic.. Videos from Vegas fine...DVD Arch NOT

danv wrote on 3/3/2012, 10:52 AM

Posting this here because I like the information back and forth here :-)
I am helping a friend with a band, by giving him some underwater videos to use with his original music, to be on a DVD as music videos with his new release.....

My problem....While I have DVD Architect 5.2 , I don't use it.....After reading the manual, it appeared straight forward....but only appeared so....
Menu is easy for 4 music videos....no problem,..insert media gets each video in...I tried this with Vegas mpeg 2's with DVD architecht info on them in the render window--also the disc image version, and with avi's....With each, the same result....When I hit Make DVD, and Prepare, it shows four instances of the videos as being too low a bit rate to be recompressed...which may have been true of the first instance when I did this with Sorrenson with the encode for use on DVD.. But with subsequent DIFFERENT DVD Architect projects, where the insert command placed Vegas rendered mpegs --and in another, vegas rendered avi;'s, I still get this error message so I cant get to NEXT, and can never get the holding folder to be prepared. It never gets to adding TS_Video and TS_Audio because PREPARE will never complete the initial steps. Have any of you guys ever been in this place, and do you know what I am doing wrong?
Thanks,
DanV

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Kimberly wrote on 3/3/2012, 11:13 AM

Hello DanV:

You want to author a DVD? or a Blu-ray?

Are you using Vegas as your NLE for this project? If yes, what template are you using for rendering your video and audio?

Ideally we don't want DVD-A to recompress the video or the audio. The AVC, MainConcept MPEG-2, AC-3, and Wave/Wave64 encoders provide templates that, if used without any modifications, result in files that do not require any recompression (unless the file size is too large to fit on a disc). Note DVD-A will usually recompress menus that you create in DVD-A.

If your files are rendered in the above formats, you should be good for rolling through DVD-A. Can you post a print screen of the error messages?

Regards,

Kimberly

Steve Mann wrote on 3/3/2012, 11:25 AM

What kind of DVD are your trying to make? Do you want it like a movie DVD where there is one "movie" with four chapters, or four separate videos?

Either way, you are correct to encode the MPEG file in Vegas using the appropriate DVDA template, then encode the audio into an AC3 file with the same name.

If you want the movie/chapter format, put all four videos on the timeline with a marker at the start of each video (this will import into DVDA as a chapter) and encode one MPEG and one AC3 file.

If you want four separate "movies" then encode each video separately and in DVDA make a compilation. It's been years since I've done one of those, so I would have to hit the manual to remember how. This gives you four "movies" and you can have the end action of each go back to your menu.

If you use the default settings and the video is under 70-minutes, then you shouldn't be getting the "bitrate too low" error.

videoITguy wrote on 3/3/2012, 5:58 PM

For the original poster [Danv] of this thread:
This topic is best taken up in the DVD Architect forum -but the replies as above are certainly appropriate. I refer you to two recent threads that have some common topics in the current DVD Architect forum....links here:
http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/forums/ShowMessage.asp?MessageID=803479&Replies=14
AND
http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/forums/ShowMessage.asp?Forum=22&MessageID=801195

danv wrote on 3/4/2012, 11:19 AM

I want to make a DVD that has 4 different music videos on it, each on the playlist, each accessable from the buttons on the main menu....this part is not my problem...

The problem is, no matter what format I render to from the original avi's, DVD Architect will NOT let me use the PREPARE function...it starts, but fails to allow me to make it to the finish phase of Prepare. It shows 4 videos ( out of the 4) have insufficient bit rate to be re-compressed ( even when I mae a fresh project only using avi files). It will also show after the 4 instances of error /problems, that there are 4 files which are fine. There are only 4 video files.

If have made 4 different DVD Architect projects up, trying to cover all bases:
one with Vegas rendered mpegs with DVD Arch notation from Vegas....
one with the Vegas DVD arch for Disc iso
One with Sorrenson encoded mpeg ( .m2v and .ac3 files for each video)
and with the Vegas /cineform AVI

PREPARE will never actually get to setting up the TS_AUDIO or TS_VIDEO folders or required files. So what is causing this failure, and why do I not see anyone else has ever had the problem I am having?

rs170a wrote on 3/4/2012, 11:52 AM

I have never had DVDA not able to prepare a file.
In your case, assuming the total length of the 4 videos is less than 70 min., render each one to mpeg-2 using a custom CBR setting of 8,000,000.
The default AC-3 setting is fine.
Start up a new project in DVDA, browse to the folder containing these files, double-click each one to add it to the DVDA timeline and press Prepare.
Unless your version of DVDA is corrupt, that should do it.

Mike

Steve Mann wrote on 3/4/2012, 12:07 PM

I have seen this error, but it was a Blu-Ray project. I re-encoded in Vegas to a higher bitrate and all went well in DVDA.

Steve Mann wrote on 3/4/2012, 12:14 PM

"It shows 4 videos ( out of the 4) have insufficient bit rate to be re-compressed"

You do not want DVDA to recompress your video. If DVDA wants to recompress, your video you've done something wrong in Vegas.

If the total size of all of the videos is less than 70-minutes, the default encoding parameters in the "Render As" menu are correct.

Have you tried reinstalling DVDA?

danv wrote on 3/5/2012, 6:47 AM

The thing is, it says this when there is no chance whatever it could be true..like when I tried running the project with 4 avi files instead of 4 mpegs. Each time I did a project with mpegs, they were creted either at the DVD A setting for Vegas, or for the DVD settings in sorrenson squeeze 8.
Prepare just wont go anywhere after it analyzes ....It just allows BACK or Cancel.

I did just do the last upgrade for DVD Arch....hoping it could have an effect.....I supposes I could uninstall and re-install, if this sounds like the solution to you guys....