Vegas render settings for input to Architect

wtfranklin wrote on 2/12/2014, 12:47 PM

I'm using Vegas Pro 12 to prepare some football games for burning onto BDs. They are 1920x1080 '.TS' files captured with a Hauppauge HD PVR.. I've trimmed each end, and added markers to the segments where the game resumes after each commercial break. This gives me the choice to watch up until the 1st commercial of each break, then hit the next chapter button on my remote to get to the end of the last commercial - back to the football game.

I render to an ISO image and burn with ImgBurn. However, the 'markers' are extremely innacurate. I want to try adding chapter markers in DVD Architect 6.0, hoping they are more accurate. What should I 'Render As' to input into Architect so I can add Chapters.

What I've tried, with NO success:

In Vegas:

I tried "Render as" - MainConcept MPEG-2 (Blu-ray 1920x1080-60i 25Mbps video stream). Then - since there's NO audio option in that template - I "Rendered As" - Dolby Digital AC-3 Pro (Stereo DVD).

In DVDA:

I tried Single Movie - Blu-ray Disc - MPEG-2 1920x1080-60i, 16x9 - AC-3 Stereo. From the "+" icon I chose "Media" and added the ".m2v" file from Vegas. It also grabbed the ".ac3" file of the same name.

I chose "Make Blu-ray Disc - Prepare

A 5 min clip became a 1GB ISO file that was a still image of a black background with 6 horizontal gray bars.

Any ideas?

Comments

Steve Grisetti wrote on 2/12/2014, 6:56 PM

What do you see when you watch the MPEG you output from Vegas?

wtfranklin wrote on 2/12/2014, 11:47 PM

It looks fine. In fact, when I "Insert" it into DVDA and play it back from the timeline, it looks fine.

Steve Grisetti wrote on 2/13/2014, 7:23 AM

Assuming you've properly set up your chapter markers in DVD Architect, I have no idea why this would not produce a perfectly fine BluRay.

Do you see the same issues when you play it on your computer (using a program like VLC Media Player rather than Windows Media Player)?

wtfranklin wrote on 2/13/2014, 2:56 PM

VLC is what I'm watching it on. I took the SAME input file and produced a regular DVD. Worked fine. It's 1920x1080 so it must have re-rendered it as 720x480 (it did take longer). At this point, I don't even have any chapter markers. I just took a 5 minute segment of the 3+ hr. program to experiment on.

Pretty frustrating.

Thanks for repying.

Arthur.S wrote on 2/16/2014, 4:51 AM

So, just to be clear; You added markers on the Vegas TL, but they didn't show in DVDA? This can be caused by renaming the file afterwards (Because the marker/chapter info is in the sfk file of the same name). Personally, I'd also ditch DVDA 6.0 and try 5.2. Lot's of folks here had problems with 6.0.

wtfranklin wrote on 2/17/2014, 9:23 AM

Vegas is CRASHING constantly. Rendering overnight (so I can actually use my PC for other things during the day), it stopped working at 20%. It's been taking 10+ hours. Last night was the last straw.

Thanks for all your help, but I'm DONE with this piece of CRAP. I'll be looking into another program. What a WASTE of money!

Thanks again for replying.

Steve Grisetti wrote on 2/17/2014, 11:25 AM

You're welcome.