Slow rendering normal??

DrBrown54 wrote on 9/16/2013, 7:21 PM
I recently purchased DVD architect and made my first project. I had a bunch of TV show episodes from a DVR that I tried to make into a playable DVD. Well it took about 8 hours to render (prepare) the disk. And when it got to the end it just shut itself down with an error (I forgot to write it down). The amount of data going on the disk was ~4.4GB. I have a 6 core AMD w/ 16GB DDR3 ram. I've rendered 25 minute blueray movies in after effects in 1 hour on this PC. So is Sony just this slow, or am I doing something wrong? I used Sony's recommended settings.

Is there another option to save time or possibly export the menu setup out to another program? I also have After Effects and Premier Elements 9. Any suggestions would be appreciated! Thanks

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musicvid10 wrote on 9/16/2013, 7:52 PM
Your DVR files are not DVD compliant. Render in Vegas first using DVD Architect video and audio templates (that's two files).
https://www.custcenter.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/84

Once the right files are given to Architect, they will prepare and burn in a matter of minutes, not hours.

Another potential problem is transport stream errors in your DVR source. If these are unstable in Vegas, the Quickstream Fix utility in VideoRedo is the solution.

DVR material, no matter what the format, is not recommended for direct authoring to BluRay or DVD.
DrBrown54 wrote on 9/17/2013, 7:33 PM
Apparently I need to be more specific. The DVR files were converted to standard 720 AVI files at 29.97fps. The file type should not be an issue. I do not own Vegas nor can I buy it right now. I use After Effects for format changes and it has all the same output compression filters as Vegas. File type is a non issue with this.

I'm realizing I'm more lost than I thought. Now, when I go to Make a DVD and I try to Prepare the disk it is telling me my data is too large (36GB) even though the original files combined are only 4.4GB. They are already low quality (180mb per 20 min video). DVDA is trying to render as MPEG2, which is terrible quality and it says the optimized bitrate is only 0.792. So I get the error saying it's too low. I don't think DVDA is even the right tool for this from the looks of it.
Steve Mann wrote on 9/17/2013, 11:02 PM
" I do not own Vegas nor can I buy it right now."

Then, how did you get DVDA?
musicvid10 wrote on 9/17/2013, 11:20 PM
"The DVR files were converted to standard 720 AVI files at 29.97fps. The file type should not be an issue.

Of course it is an issue. DVDs contain MPEG-2 video at Standard Definition, not AVI at 720p.
So you want to render AVI to compliant MPEG-2 in DVD Architect?
Go right ahead. Just don't complain about the time it takes, OK?
The link I gave above is worth its weight in gold if you decide to do it the right way.

Steve Mann,
Apparently, DVDA Studio is now available as a standalone, for $40.

Steve Mann wrote on 9/18/2013, 11:09 AM
"Apparently, DVDA Studio is now available as a standalone, for $40."

My bad. Dr. Brown, until recently DVDA was not available as a product separate from Vegas, so I apologize for implying that this was pirated software.

If you provide DVDA with an MPEG2 video and AC3 Dolby Digital audio file, then it will make the DVD in just a few minutes without re-encoding the media. This is easily done in Vegas just by using the DVDA templates in the Render As menu.

All DVD's are MPEG2.

Anything else will be re-encoded by DVDA, often with a slight loss in quality and re-encoding takes time.