Hi everyone

Sorry it's me again. So I've put my mp4 file in vegas pro and now I want to render it out as a blu ray compatible file into dvd architect.

Which is bey better mainconcept mpeg 2 or Sony avc/mvc?

Thankyou

Kristina

 

Sony AVC is superior due to the file size being much smaller than MPEG2.

So I will render the mp4 as sony avc yes? And choose the right blu ray template? Am I right? If I do this will it work on a blu-ray disc?

Does it do a m2ts file?

Thankyou

Kristina

So I will render the mp4 as sony avc yes? And choose the right blu ray template? Am I right? If I do this will it work on a blu-ray disc?

Yes, it will render your video as an .avc file which is the correct format for DVD architect 7. And before you render, if you want your marks to be saved in the file, go to "render options" and make sure you click "save project markers in rendered media file".

After you render in that correct template you'll need an audio file, which will be either Sony Wave 64 (.w64 uncompressed) or Dolby Digital (.ac3 which is compressed) if you have that option. If you choose sony wave 64 you can have dvda7 recompress that to dolby digital if you don't have that as an option (I heard magix is having problems with the dolby digital codec in vegas at the moment).

To make DVDs and Blu Rays with DVDA you must render the video and audio completely separate or DVDA will recompress them because of them not being in the format it wants.

Does it do a m2ts file?

Thankyou

Kristina

At this step you are rendering to .avc for video and then .w64 (sony wave 64) or .ac3 (dolby digital) for audio.

DVDA7 will mux the files and you'll have either an ISO prepared (which I heavily suggest you choose first, and then burn with a program like IMGburn) or burn right to a disc.

Remember to have your video and audio file in the same directory with the same name, minus the file extension. If you do that it will auto detect the audio if you just dragged in the video file to DVDA7. If that doesn't happen you can always manually link them by double clicking the video in DVDA7 in the GUI menu and then, in the timeline, right click the missing audio or video and set the correct file in there.

Technically you can skip vegas encoding and take almost any h.264/aac video file and DVDA7 will re-compress that for you, but that will not give you the best quality image.

Thank you so much for your help. Cool so I'm currently rendering it out as avc. However does avc go on blu ray discs I thought I needed m2ts?

Thankyou

Kristina

Thank you so much for your help. Cool so I'm currently rendering it out as avc. However does avc go on blu ray discs I thought I needed m2ts?

Thankyou

Kristina

DVD Architect muxes the AVC and a compatible audio file like .w64 or .ac3 into the M2TS stream. In the file structure of the blu ray it prepares or burns you will see the m2ts files there.

Thank you

You can trust Teagan here. See the template if you'd want to choose and burn from the timeline (Tools > Burn disc, VP 15)

Thank you everyone. I fully trust you all

 

To make DVDs and Blu Rays with DVDA you must render the video and audio completely separate or DVDA will recompress them because of them not being in the format it wants.

My experience is otherwise. Even if the video and audio streams are in one file DVDA will not recompress them if the streams are compatible. I normally use m2ts files in DVDA for Blu-ray creation. The video is AVC, the audio AC-3. DVDA does not recompress them.

Also even if the streams are in one file you can replace either the video or audio by another file by going to the Media Properties and Track Media. DVDA is very versatile.

Hi

My avc file keeps jumping in dvd architect. Should I render a m2ts file in vegas pro as an avc and try that?

Thankyou

Kristina

What do you man by "jumping"? An m2ts file should be okay but may not solve your problem as it contains avc video.

Hi

Is there any way that I can get titles/text to fly/fade in?

Thankyou

Kristina

There's two ways to do this, one with only fading by dragging the beginning and end of a section on the timeline and the other with inserting a transition - of which there's many to choose from. For the transitions you will need to drag the one you'd like between two items on the timeline:

Fading with no transitions:

First, click the item you want to add a fade to, so only one section is selected.

Hover over the top of the end line until you see a quarter circle and then drag towards the center of the section you selected. The longer you drag the longer the transition. Note, you can do the opposite direction to fade into another section. This is me fading in and out of one section, leaving a black frame in the middle, no matter the content.

Using a transition:

Click on the transitions section above the timeline.

Select the transition you want.

Drag the transition between two sections on the timeline.

After you add a transition it may ask you to customize it, you can simply x out of that.

Thank you. Is there any way to do it in DVD architect? Like if I wanted the screen selection text to fade in instead of just being there.?

Thankyou

Kristina

I do not believe so, not in DVD architect.

You will have to add in fades and transitions in your video editor of choice, and have them embedded in the video file.

Are you talking about the video fading or your selection highlight in DVDA? You can change that to highlight the text only, or other options, but nothing fancy like it fading out and in after you select something on the menu.

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(how to change this)

(text rectangle shown, other options available. the thumbnail is black, so if it had color, that part would not be highlighted)

Hi guys

Merry Christmas.

I've got a mp4 and dropped it into vegas pro when I render as an avc and try to insert it into dvd architect it says no information was found and then the program crashes. Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

Thank you

Kristina

Are you dragging the video in to the project or are you trying to open it as a DVDA project file?

If you don't want to drag it in you can do to Insert > Media.

Don't do File > Open, as that is for project files only. (.dar)

It won't open in dvda. When I drag the avc file in my disc menu window it says no information found and then crashes. Do you know what I'm doing wrong?

Thank you

Kristina

@Kristina-Redmond I know you've answered this already, but can you make sure that you've rendered to a Blu-Ray compliant video stream?

I've just dragged a Blu-Ray compliant avc file into the DVDAS window with no problem.

Did the same with DVDA P 6 and VEGAS DVD A (7).