Rendering to DVD Authoring

Begbie wrote on 8/24/2003, 8:57 PM

I ahve been making my vegas movies into DVDs, but i prefer to use DVDlab over DVDa - i have been rendering out to DVD PAL Seperate streams (which takes ages of course) and then using these in DVDlab.

Should i be rendering these to a different format for use in DVD authoring proggie? I kinda get the feeling that when this software compiles my DVD its re rednering it, or something similar? Or is it just converting to VOB (VOB is the output of compile) rather than actualy re rednering it?

Is there a quicker, or better way to render files to use in authoring? Or am i already using the best method?

Also for 1.5hours of footage it gets a big big so i change the AVBR to 4.2 from the default of 6 - is this acceptable for wedding video, kids birthdays, no action type movies?

Is it possible to edit the rednered file afterwards without having to render it all again (taking 10hours for 1.5hour footage on my PC), even to just chop off a bit at the start or end?

Comments

Begbie wrote on 8/25/2003, 6:49 PM

So does anyone know what is the best format to render to?

I wanted to know if DVD authoring proggies re render the file and cause loss of quality if i render to the wrong format from vegas?

jetdv wrote on 8/26/2003, 8:07 AM

For DVD, you render to MPEG2 and adjust the bitrate to match the length of your video. This is what it sounds like you are doing.

Begbie wrote on 8/26/2003, 7:16 PM

So the DVD authoring programs wont try and re render the files?

Is the seperate streams better to use than a single MPG2 ? I dont use any fancy audio etc.

jetdv wrote on 8/27/2003, 8:33 AM

If the MPEG2 file is small enough and is DVD Compliant (which rendering with the DVDA presets will be), it will NOT be reencoded.

As for a separate audio file, that's up to you. If you use a DVDA preset, there will be no audio in the file. Just render to AC-3 as well and all should be fine.