Recompression issue

TomG wrote on 6/29/2005, 5:47 AM

After extensive reading up on V6 and monitoring this forum, I have finally started my first V6 project. Everything was going fine until I got to DVDA3.

I rendered my project using the NTSC DVDA template in V6 but when I tried to prepare it in DVDA (video only), I get a "video recompression" warning which means that DVDA has to recompress the video again (which takes forever) and I didn't think that was necessary...

I never had this problem with V5 & DVDA2. I've searched the forums (Video & DVDA) and couldn't find any solutions to this.

Any thoughts?

Thanks,
TomG

Comments

jetdv wrote on 6/29/2005, 6:37 AM

How long was the video? Perhaps the rendered file is too large to fit.

TomG wrote on 6/29/2005, 6:40 AM

The video is only 12 minutes (20% of the DVD). Also, I am using V6b.

cbrillow wrote on 6/29/2005, 7:21 AM

Any chance that you selected the NTSC DVD template instead of the video stream for DVD Architect? I believe the name has changed a bit from Vegas 5 to 6. (can't verify though, away from editing computer...)

TomG wrote on 6/29/2005, 7:31 AM

No, I am using the DVDA NTSC video stream template which uses the Mainconcept MPEG-2 encoder. I still have V5d installed but I don't think that should be a problem....

I just tried to prep the clip using DVDA 2b and I DID NOT get the recompress warning?!? Seems very strange to me.

cbrillow wrote on 6/29/2005, 7:48 AM

Nope -- having V5d installed shouldn't be a problem. I'd guess that a large number of us who have moved to 6 still have 5 on our machines.

Why not try a second render of just a minute or two of video from the same Vegas project? Won't take long, and you can doublecheck all the render settings to see if this is repeatable.

TomG wrote on 6/29/2005, 9:56 AM

Did another rendering and got the same results. The source of the media was captured from a Sony consumer digital video camera recorder.

Again, it does not have to recompress in DVDA 2 but does in DVDA 3???