Rendering

studioLord wrote on 4/24/2006, 11:22 AM

I read about rendering the audio and video seperately. When I go to make a movie it renders both at once. What is the procedure to render seperately? Thanks

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bStro wrote on 4/24/2006, 1:03 PM

This question would be better asked in the Vegas forum or, more specifically, the Vegas Movie Studio forum since it sounds like you're using VMS.

That said, the quick answer is that you need to use a different template than the one you are. After you choose the format of your video (MPEG2), you choose a template. The default template creates an MPEG file that includes MPEG2 video and MPEG audio, which DVD Architect can use but prefers not to. (There's no major harm in using this file -- it's just inefficient because DVDA has to 1) separate the video from the audio and 2) re-encode the audio because DVDA will not output a DVD with MPEG audio.

Select one of the DVD Architect video stream templates for the video, render that. Then go through the steps again, choose an audio format (usually Wave, if you're using Vegas Movie Studio) and an appropriate audio template (48000 hz, stereo).

I'm not altogether familiar with the way Vegas Movie Studio operates, as I'm using its older brother Vegas, but I think you'd be better off using the Render As option off the File menu than using the Make Movie option. We don't have Make Movie in Vegas, but it seems to me to just be more point-n-click but less flexible. Bottom line, I think Render As gives you more control. I could be wrong.

Rob

Paul Mead wrote on 4/24/2006, 2:07 PM

Why do you want to render separately?

DrLumen wrote on 4/24/2006, 6:28 PM

Rendering seperately in Vegas allows you to tweak the compression settings for the MPG2 video. Some believe they can get a better rendering by adapting the settings to match the video. It makes sense. IMHO, I can't tell any difference... but there are some people that swear to this method.

In Vegas, starting with a Vegas MPG2 template, it doesn't render the audio. You can then render the audio as AC3. When you pull this into Architect it should combine the 2 seperate renders into the project.

Not sure of the compression settings available in VMS but without the advanced MPG2 settings (which I think VMS lacks) I don't know of any reason to render them seperately.

Hope this helps...

studioLord wrote on 4/26/2006, 2:34 PM

Okay... the choices I saw that I think apply would be
1. Main Concept MPEG 2
2. DVDA NTSC video stream
for doing the video render ...and then probably
1. Microsoft Wav (.wav)
2. Sony Wav64 (.w64)
for the audio. Which of the two audio do you recommend?
Thanks
John

Chienworks wrote on 4/26/2006, 2:48 PM

Go for Microsoft WAV. No applications besides SONY's media software can read W64. True, this shouldn't make a difference after the DVD is burned, but it wouldn't help to use W64 since it's only necessary when you have more than 2GB of audio. At the standard format used for audio that would be over 3 hours worth. WAV will be fine for any reasonable DVD you may create.