SPOT: VASST Follow Up

wolfbass wrote on 8/20/2004, 3:21 PM
Hi Spot!

At the end of a long day in Sydney, you briefly touched on rendering options, such as rendering the audio seperately, using Batch Rendering.

If you have time, would you be able to briefly out line your recommended rendering, to get a surround sound mix and MPEG-2 file for loading up in DVDA-2.

Thanks.

P.S. Sound Forge and NR ROCK!

Andy

Comments

farss wrote on 8/20/2004, 4:29 PM
Wolf,
it's pretty basic stuff, encode video to mpeg-2 using the DVDA PAL template then encode the audio to 5.1 ac3 file. DVDA handles these just fine. The ONLY advantage to batch render might be that it does both these tasks for you. But ALL it's doing is driving the process for you, you really need to understand those processes first.
Bob.
Spot|DSE wrote on 8/20/2004, 5:37 PM
Farss summed it up pretty well.
I use the Batch Render tool to render to:
Sony YUV 4:2:2 codec for archive
MPEG
AC3 5.1
AC3 stereo
*wmv stream @ 45kpbs & 256 kpbs*
* Quicktime stream or download file

If it's going to DV Architect, use the DVD Architect PAL template, and use the AC3 templates for 5.1 or stereo, or both if you intend on putting both audio options on the DVD.
The main advantage of Batch Render tools is that with them, you can call up any/all templates you like and assure yourself that you've not mis-set a setting, which I sometimes do when in a hurry. Using the Batch tools assure that I get everything the way I want based on templates I've created.
wolfbass wrote on 8/21/2004, 5:31 AM
Bob and Spot, thanks for the replies.

Now I've rendered to Mpeg, and AC3 5.1 and it sounds great.

For a moment there I thought I'd have to bring in the 5.1 to DVDA, but that diubled the size of the DVD.

I've got it sussed, going to test it now.

Cheers again,

Andy