Please tell me I didn't screw myself.......

Brad C. wrote on 9/2/2009, 4:04 PM
I was messing around in DVDA and the project I was wanting to burn is 720 24p and I want to burn the project as a "SD" widescreen project on a standard DVD. The only option is 29.97?? Why can I not burn 24p? What the heck can I do now? I shot two entire weddings as 24p and they will not be burned as bluray. I just want them on standard DVD to be played in a standard DVD player.

If I have put myself in a pinch, please tell me what my options are. This is not good.

Any help is appreciated guys.

Thanks,
-Brad

Comments

Jay Gladwell wrote on 9/2/2009, 4:28 PM

Did you render the finished project in Vegas to a DVD Architect 24p NTSC Widescreen video file first?


Brad C. wrote on 9/2/2009, 4:37 PM
Jay, no I didn't. Not yet. Project isn't done. I have a couple of teaser videos from said weddings that I rendered to H.264 24p for the net.

Is that all I have to do is render to that format? If so, does DVDA recognize the 24p then?

Sorry if I'm overreacting. Still finding things out the hard way.
corug7 wrote on 9/2/2009, 4:42 PM
Bring the footage into a 23.976 timeline in Vegas and render out using the Mainconcept MPEG-2 DVDA 24p setting. Make sure to set your bitrate according to how much footage you have.
Brad C. wrote on 9/2/2009, 5:11 PM
Ok, did that.

Project properties is still locked to 29.97. How do I get it to 23.97?

Sorry for asking such noob questions.

-Brad
jimingo wrote on 9/2/2009, 5:23 PM
Go to Make DVD>Prepare>Next>Optimize.
Then click on the Video1 Tab. As long as that says 23.97, you're fine.
Brad C. wrote on 9/2/2009, 5:29 PM
Ahh. Ok. I thought the project properties had to match.

Thanks guys! Much appreciated. If there's anything else to add, feel free. If not, let this one die.

Take care,
-Brad
johnmeyer wrote on 9/2/2009, 5:44 PM
Actually, you really don't have to change the project properties. DVDA will happily use 23.976 MPEG-2 files, without re-encoding, regardless of the project properties. This is a good thing, because it allows you to use 29.97 and 23.976 in the same DVD without re-encoding.

The Project property video settings control two things:

1. How menus will be encoded.

2. How AVI files (or other non-MPEG-2 source files) will be encoded.

However, if you have encoded MPEG-2 files from Vegas, and they are legal DVD files (23.976 progressive, 29.97, either 4:3 or widescreen), you can put them into the project and DVDA will not re-encode.

Just to be sure of this statement, I just opened up 8.0c, put some video on the timeline, and then encoded to

29.97 4:3
29.97 16:9
23.976 4:3
23.976 16:9
25 4:3 (PAL)
25 16:9 (PAL widescreen)

In the Optimize dialog, none of the NTSC variations (the first four above) required any re-encoding. However, PAL did require re-encoding. So, I guess I have to slightly modify my statement above to say that you cannot use both NTSC and PAL in the same project without one of them being re-encoded.

When I changed the project properties to PAL, then the last two above didn't require re-encoding, but all the NTSC files had the exclamation mark diamond, indicating that they would be re-encoded.

So, bottom line, as long as you are dealing with just NTSC or just PAL, and you are doing the MPEG-2 encoding in Vegas, you really don't need to worry about the project properties (unless you want to have 4:3 or 16:9 menus -- in that case you need to make the project properties match the menus you want to create).


Brad C. wrote on 9/2/2009, 7:29 PM
Excellent John! Thanks man. Much knowledge learned tonight.