Problem Downconverting

JayLJohnston wrote on 11/4/2010, 11:48 AM

Hi EVeryone,
Okay, so I have a 1080i movie created in VMS10 and am now preparing to put on disc. I've gotten through the creation process in DVDA and it comes to 16GB. I used DVDA to "optimize" it so that it would fit on a standard DVD for testing. It took about 4.5 hours to process. I burned it on disc and am having afew problems. Can anybody help? I'm assuming that somehow something got set that I didn't want in the optimization, so I will have to do it again, which isn't a problem...just want to know where to look:

1. Everything I recorded is in 16x9, but after optimization, it's in 4x3 so when playing on a 16x9 TV, I've got black bars all around. How can I preserve aspect ratio?

2. Quality is very poor now. I've got lots of jagged edges everywhere. Is there anything that can be done to avoid this? Would it be better to re-render in VMS10 at a lower resolution and then create a new project in DVDA?

Thanks, everyone, any help would be appreciated. You've already helped me out a bunch!! Jay

Comments

Steve Grisetti wrote on 11/4/2010, 2:51 PM

If your plan is to create a DVD, you probably should not be outputting a 1080i video from Vegas as your source video. All you'll be doing is creating a lot of extra work for the program and, as you've seen, demanded a lot of extra render time.

Use a 720x480 widescreen DVD-ready MPEG. This will give you a good 16:9 video that DVD Architect can easily work with. In fact, you don't say how long your video is but, if it's under 70 minutes, it will likely transcode to DVD very quickly because the program will not need to recompress it! This will also likely resolve your quality problems too.

As for your DVD player not recognizing the 16:9 format -- first, I'm assuming that, when you started your disc project, you selected the 16:9 option. Right?

If you did and the DVD player still didn't recognize the format -- well, that just the nature of home-burned DVDs. Sometimes they don't trigger the automatic 16:9 switch in the DVD player. Manually selecting the format option on your DVD player should resolve that problem.