I just recently started using Vegas 9 Platinum and using Vegas put together video of football highlights shot in HD on a Canon HV30. I imported the video into Vegas in HD. I then created a 15 min video which includes some still images with audio and the video with the original audio. I want to burn it to an SD DVD.
Looked through the Vegas help and this and other forums to determine the best way to render and followed the guidance. I first rendered the video with MainConcept MPEG2 (Template: "DVD Architect NTSC Video Stream") and then the audio in Dolby Digital AC-3 AC3 Studio (*.ac3) - "Template: Stereo DVD". Both with same file names so the audio imported automatically into DVDA. When I then go into the Renders folder and play the newly rendered MPEG video file (using Windows media), the quality is very good with very few artifacts.
I then add the newly created video render into the DVDA project window (both video and audio import with no problem) and I set up the simple menu structure with just a five chapters. When I use I use the DVDA Preview function the photos with voice-over play just fine, but the video is not very good, lots of artifacts and any horizontal lines/images in the video (for example bleachers, lines on ground, tops of buildings) show really major flickering; there is pixellation of the grass on the field as the camera pans, and the uniforms of moving players show some pixellation as well - image generally looks very grainy/out of focus. Audio works fine throughout. I then burn the DVD which has these poor results.
Frustratingly, when I first made the trial DVD some weeks ago, the video quality was a bit better, though it was my first attempt and I unfortunately did not write down the settings I used ( do not think I rendered the video and audio separately at that time; but it played in DVD players and on PCs).
I think the steps I described above are the correct ones to follow and normally the result should be a DVD of better quality than if I had shot the video on SD to begin with...but this is not the case!
Any help much appreciated!
Looked through the Vegas help and this and other forums to determine the best way to render and followed the guidance. I first rendered the video with MainConcept MPEG2 (Template: "DVD Architect NTSC Video Stream") and then the audio in Dolby Digital AC-3 AC3 Studio (*.ac3) - "Template: Stereo DVD". Both with same file names so the audio imported automatically into DVDA. When I then go into the Renders folder and play the newly rendered MPEG video file (using Windows media), the quality is very good with very few artifacts.
I then add the newly created video render into the DVDA project window (both video and audio import with no problem) and I set up the simple menu structure with just a five chapters. When I use I use the DVDA Preview function the photos with voice-over play just fine, but the video is not very good, lots of artifacts and any horizontal lines/images in the video (for example bleachers, lines on ground, tops of buildings) show really major flickering; there is pixellation of the grass on the field as the camera pans, and the uniforms of moving players show some pixellation as well - image generally looks very grainy/out of focus. Audio works fine throughout. I then burn the DVD which has these poor results.
Frustratingly, when I first made the trial DVD some weeks ago, the video quality was a bit better, though it was my first attempt and I unfortunately did not write down the settings I used ( do not think I rendered the video and audio separately at that time; but it played in DVD players and on PCs).
I think the steps I described above are the correct ones to follow and normally the result should be a DVD of better quality than if I had shot the video on SD to begin with...but this is not the case!
Any help much appreciated!