Render customized

artstn wrote on 6/6/2011, 4:07 PM

Hi folks, I'm back after several years away. My last version of Vegas was 7.0 with DVDA. I'm using the newer Vegas 9 and came across a puzzling thing in the render dialog box. Just about any choice of a render format comes up with the Custom button greyed out. For example, when I choose the DVD-NTSC template I can't hit Custom to choose 16x9. Probably a simple thing I'm overlooking. I searched the forum and can't find anything.

Thanks,
Art

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Eugenia wrote on 6/6/2011, 4:24 PM

There's an mpeg2 widescreen NTSC template to pick, there's no reason to customize it.

artstn wrote on 6/6/2011, 4:29 PM

I understand that, but all the templates have the customized button greyed out.

Eugenia wrote on 6/6/2011, 5:01 PM

That's how it was always for mpeg2 on the Platinum version of Vegas. I think you need Platinum 10 for more customization support, and even then, not all formats allow it.

artstn wrote on 6/6/2011, 8:32 PM

Thanks, yeah it may be a new limitation. Vegas 7 has full customization support on nearly every template. Guess I'll still be using 7 for a lot of things.

Chienworks wrote on 6/7/2011, 6:36 AM

Did you have the full version of Vegas 7 (precursor to Vegas Pro), or did you have the "Movie Studio" version? I'm guessing you probably had the full version which as always allowed customization of MPEG templates, while the Movie Studio versions (including Platinum Pro) have always been limited.

artstn wrote on 6/7/2011, 8:04 AM

Yes. I have the full version of Vegas 7 including DVDA 4.0. This was the first time trying the Movie Studio product. It looked very similar to the older full version, except for this difference. I thought at first it was due to not having DVDA installed, but that didn't make any difference. Thanks for your replies!

artstn wrote on 6/7/2011, 8:06 AM

By the way, I've sort of figured out a workflow with these two products. I'm using movie studio 9 to capture video, because I like the media manager better in 9. Using full version of vegas 7 for the editing. Works pretty well.