Vegas 4.0 making a dvd

Randini wrote on 3/10/2005, 1:17 PM
I thought vegas allowed you to make a dvd with menue's? The help said something about "if you have dvd archetecture software" What is that? I have a one hour video that came to me on a dvd and I tried to render it using mpeg 2 and it is altmost 8 gigs. So it won't fit on a regular dvd but yet the person that sent it to me got it on one dvd. Am I doing something wrong? Does vegas not do a very good job in making dvd's to play in dvd environment and only is good for streaming?

Please help, I am new to this

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GaryKleiner wrote on 3/10/2005, 1:20 PM
Vegas alone does not make DVDs. For that you need DVD authoring software such as DVD ARchitect which is part of Vegas + DVD.

Gary
Randini wrote on 3/10/2005, 1:23 PM
Is there anything else besides spending another 200 bucks that could help me in making a dvd?

Thanks for your help
ScottW wrote on 3/10/2005, 2:19 PM
You can pick up a copy of DVD Lab (mediachance.com) for $99. Nero, which runs about the same price, also has some authoring capabilities, but I've never used them so can't comment on how good they are (or are not).

Are you sure you are using Vegas, and not Vegas Movie Studio? An MPEG-2 file size of 8GB for that much material (in terms of time) doesn't sound like the typical defaults that Vegas would render with.

--Scott
B.Verlik wrote on 3/10/2005, 5:43 PM
8 gigs for an hour is not possible. If it was in .avi format, it would be 13 gigs for an hour. But an hour of video shouldn't be more than about 3 to 4 gigs for mpg2. (and it could be less than that)
You may consider TMPGEnc DVD Author, if they include a burner with it. I think they do now. It use to sell for about $48. and was fairly simple to use. The manufacturer is "Pegasys".
http://www.tmpg-inc.com/
They use to give a 30 day free trial, but it's been almost 2 years since I tried it.
Randini wrote on 3/11/2005, 5:42 AM
Yep its vegas 4.0. I have Nero 6.0 so I will give it a shot and see if it can do the authoring but I must be doing something wrong on the mpeg-2 rendering part. Maybe its in the second drop down box is where I am messing up. It has all of the extention types, When making a straight dvd is there one that is better than another?
BillyBoy wrote on 3/11/2005, 7:25 AM
You should see SPECIFIC templates for making a DVD. Do NOT use the default template.

Examnple:

If yuu live in the United States, pick MPEG-2 as file type, pick NTSC DV as the template. Optionally if you also have DVD Architect and wish to finsh the DVD using that authoring software pick one of the Architect video templates and render audio seperately or you can pick one of the wide screen template if you wish to make a wide screen ready DVD.
Randini wrote on 3/11/2005, 7:33 AM
Ok that helps. Is it nessesary to render the audio seperatly using a dvda or is it simply if you want to use menu's. I really at this point just want to make the video I have to where someone can stick it in their dvd player and have it start playing. No menu's or chooses for the end users. Is this possible?
BillyBoy wrote on 3/11/2005, 10:47 AM
It isn't necessary to render seperate audio. Some like to, because its a option and Vegas comes with special DVDA templates. I rarely do it that way, you can if you want to, but you don't have to.

If you render to MPEG-2 and use the DV template, then DVDA will recompress the audio portion and do so all by itself without you doing anything. I think that's the smarter way, especially if you're just starting out and just want to get your feet wet to see how things work.

If you want to have something where you just pop in a DVD, no menu, try the single movie option under File/New in DVDA. There should be lots of threads in this and the DVDA forum that give more specifs. There of course there's the manual. <wink>