VEGAS to DVDA2 ... veg to avi file????

dukerss wrote on 10/12/2004, 6:43 PM
Hello.... Please someone tell me there's a faster way to fix my problem. After I edit and get my video file all ready with Vegas 5 (clippings,transitions,end credits etc) I want to transfer it to DVDA2 for menu and chapter building. Well, the Vegas file will only save as a .VEG which DVDA2 won't accept. So the only way I see to get the file into the Architect Builder is to render it to a AVI or similar file save... ??????? Holy cow, it wants to take several hours to do this. I know I must be doing something wrong, I mean Vegas 5 and DVDA2 are supposed to be brothers and completely compatible. right? Aren't I supposed to compose it in V5 and finish it in DVDA??? ................ Help for a rookie please........ Thanks

P4 with 1012 RAM

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amemain wrote on 10/12/2004, 8:05 PM
Vegas5 has a DVDA template under (MainConcept Mpeg2) . If you render to this, DVDA will not need to re-render. Probably best you render once through Vegas rather than rendering avi then DVDA having to render again.

Just a note, the DVDA template will not render the audio (unless you customize it), render the audio after to AC3.

Eventually you will need to render...sorry.
bStro wrote on 10/12/2004, 8:19 PM
DVDs have videos on them.

A VEG is not a video. A VEG is a project file that contains instructions -- what clips to include in your project, effects to apply to them, audio to add, etc. When you're satisfied with your project, you render it to a video. This part takes a long time because the program (Vegas) has to alter all the frames that you changed in some way. This is going to occur no matter what program you use to edit your video.

And if DVDA did accept VEG files, it would still have to render it all into a video....which, again, takes time.

Welcome to the world of video editing. :)

BTW, you don't have to render to AVI. You can render to MPEG2, which would actually be better because MPEG2 is the format used by DVDs. Less work for DVDA.

Rob
dukerss wrote on 10/13/2004, 12:22 AM
Thank you.. great info !!! I am curious, does MPEG2 render faster than the AVI? It is like 7 hours with a P4?
mbryant wrote on 10/13/2004, 1:00 AM
No... generally rendering a DV file to MPEG2 takes longer than rendering to DV-AVI.... but it has to be done, as MPEG2 is what is needed for a DVD. It is still generally better and faster to have Vegas render to MPEG2.... Vegas can render faster to AVI, but then DVD-A would need to do that slow render to MPEG2. Also this way if you find you need to change your menus in DVD-A it avoids DVD-A having to re-render your main video.

Render times depend on the complexity of the video as well as the length, and your CPU speed... but 7 hours is not unusual.

Mark