Vegas Platinum best quality for dvd architect?

mike152 wrote on 5/8/2008, 8:32 AM
Hello I am working on creating a slideshow with Vegas platinum and am having a lot of trouble I rendered the video as a .MOV Uncompressed and it is about 12 GB (which I expected it o be) now someone told me that you would get the best quality this way when you put it into DVD architect because it compresses it then.
But any way what is really the best quality for DVD architect. I will be selling this DVD and I need production quality Please help.
Thank you.
-Michael

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Chienworks wrote on 5/8/2008, 2:59 PM
DVDs are MPEG2, there is no other choice. The MPEG2 encoder in DVD Architect is a little more flexible than the one in Vegas Studio so your best bet is probably to render to uncompressed AVI, then use the 'Fit to disc' option in DVD Architect to let it pick the best bitrate that will fit.
mike152 wrote on 5/8/2008, 5:07 PM
Ok thanks for the reply, isn't an uncompressed AVI going to be HUGE?
Is there any way to make it an mpeg then have DVD architect not compress it or something?
I tried making it a MPEG2-NTSC DVD architect video stream.
The quality was actually OK but if AVI will be better I would like to know how to do that the thing is I don't have a lot of space to work with.
Thanks again.
Chienworks wrote on 5/8/2008, 7:52 PM
Uncompressed AVI should be the same size as uncompressed MOV. How long is the slideshow? Maybe about 7 minutes?
mike152 wrote on 5/9/2008, 10:03 AM
Well it's going to be about 30 Minutes. Also on the DVD I have a Picture Compilation and had a few questions about that.
Is there a way to manually scroll through images with the picture compilation?
and if i want to have an option between 3 seconds per slide and 7 seconds per slide is this possible?
Thanks for all of your help.
Chienworks wrote on 5/9/2008, 12:28 PM
The problem is, when you use DVD Architect to produce the DVD you're going to get ... a DVD. DVDs are for movies that play from beginning to end, no speed adjustments or other choices available.

You could create a slideshow of up to 99 pictures by making each one a menu page background with the default button linking to the next page. The user would press the enter button to advance to the next picture. You can set a default time to advance automatically too, if the user hasn't pressed a button by then. You could also add buttons to go back or return to the menu. Not a great way to do it, but it's what Hollywood does on commercial DVD slideshows.