Render widescreen MPEG-2 - what am I missing?

DCKiwi wrote on 7/4/2008, 11:17 AM

Hi there,

I recently created a project in Sony Vegas Movie Studio Platinum 8.0. The project consists of AVCHD video files and still image files.

All I want to do is render this project as an MPEG-2 audio/video file that will display correctly on my 16:9 TV (I use Windows Media Center to play video files on my TV).

However when I go to render the project as an MPEG-2 file, the only NTSC widescreen option is for creating a separate video-only stream for use in DVD Architect. There is NO option to create a widescreen MPEG-2 with audio! I must be missing something here. Any help would be most appreciated!

Thanks,

DCKiwi

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Eugenia wrote on 7/4/2008, 11:54 AM

Yes, there is. You select the HDV 1440x1080 mpeg2 .m2t option under Main Concept filetype.

DCKiwi wrote on 7/4/2008, 2:34 PM

That's good advice, and I tried that thanks.

The only catch is that creates high-def MPEG-2 (1080x1440 resolution) m2t files. I'd rather create DVD resolution MPEG-2 files (.mpg) that are viewable on a wide range of platforms.

Again, I can create these files in Vegas - but only by choosing DVD architect video stream, so there is no sound.

Eugenia wrote on 7/4/2008, 2:42 PM

VMS won't export mpeg2 DVD video with sound. Export your video in a lossless codec, or in HD M2T as you just did, and then use the freeware HCEnc mpeg2 encoder to do the exporting to 720x480: http://www.videohelp.com/tools/HC