I have had some issues recently both with getting discs to burn and getting successfully burnt discs to play on some of my clients’ equipment.
Part of the problem may relate to the initial rendering process, so I would like to ask a few important questions just to make sure I’m not making any critical mistakes.
1) If I am making a DVD to be played on a DVD player which is attached to a monitor of some sort I would render it as an mpeg-2 file. Is there anything else I have to do to get it to play on a run of the mill DVD player? I’m talking about a simple video (wedding or otherwise) without menus or frills of any kind.
2) If one renders a file as an mpeg-2 will that file have the same mpeg-2 resolution quality regardless of its origin? In other words, if I capture video from my PD-170 it comes into Vegas as an .avi file. When I put it on the timeline it takes on an alter ego as a .veg file. I finish my project and then I render it as an mpeg-2. But what if, instead of saving the file as a series of .veg files until I am ready to render to mpeg-2 I instead render the file as a .wmv until I finish the project, and then render it as an mpeg-2 file? WILL THE QULITY OF THE MPEG-2 FILE BE ANY DIFFERENT THEN IF I HAD RENDERED IT FROM THE .AVI BASED .VEG FILE?
3) Is there a preference as to which files to work with before final render? Because of some trouble I have been having with the stability of .veg files, I have been rendering in .wmv format during the various stages of my projects. I then do a final render in either .wmv or mpeg-2 depending on the client and/or the nature of the client. Am I doing something wrong?
Thank y’all in advance.
Part of the problem may relate to the initial rendering process, so I would like to ask a few important questions just to make sure I’m not making any critical mistakes.
1) If I am making a DVD to be played on a DVD player which is attached to a monitor of some sort I would render it as an mpeg-2 file. Is there anything else I have to do to get it to play on a run of the mill DVD player? I’m talking about a simple video (wedding or otherwise) without menus or frills of any kind.
2) If one renders a file as an mpeg-2 will that file have the same mpeg-2 resolution quality regardless of its origin? In other words, if I capture video from my PD-170 it comes into Vegas as an .avi file. When I put it on the timeline it takes on an alter ego as a .veg file. I finish my project and then I render it as an mpeg-2. But what if, instead of saving the file as a series of .veg files until I am ready to render to mpeg-2 I instead render the file as a .wmv until I finish the project, and then render it as an mpeg-2 file? WILL THE QULITY OF THE MPEG-2 FILE BE ANY DIFFERENT THEN IF I HAD RENDERED IT FROM THE .AVI BASED .VEG FILE?
3) Is there a preference as to which files to work with before final render? Because of some trouble I have been having with the stability of .veg files, I have been rendering in .wmv format during the various stages of my projects. I then do a final render in either .wmv or mpeg-2 depending on the client and/or the nature of the client. Am I doing something wrong?
Thank y’all in advance.