Vegas vs DVD Architect

CorTed wrote on 9/13/2009, 2:46 PM
I have created a HDV bluRay program (1440x1080) using Vegas and then created BluRay menu and burn using DVD Architect.
I now need to create a SD version (widescreen) for DVD

Does it make sense to let DVD Architect do the downconvert from HDV to SD-widescreen, or should I re-encode the entire program to mpeg2 using Vegas?
Is there a quality difference?

Ted

Comments

musicvid10 wrote on 9/13/2009, 3:15 PM
Not necessarily, but by doing your second render in Vegas you have complete control over every step of the process. In DVDA you take what it gives you.

If you have time, do it both ways using the DVDA Widescreen templates in Vegas, and letting DVDA do it it's own way, and post the results back here. Lots of people would be interested to know what differences you can tell.
CorTed wrote on 9/13/2009, 3:23 PM
Well, I am letting DVD Arch do the conversion first.
It is now re-encoding, and it looks like it will be about 7 hours to do this.
I may try to have Vegas do the conversion as well, although it takes 17 hours render the main program. Don't have the time right now to do this.

Ted
CorTed wrote on 9/13/2009, 5:14 PM
FWIW I just finished letting DVD Arch downres the entire project to SD-Widescreen and I was quite impressed with the results. Looks pretty good, and I do not think using Vegas to encode to mpg before DVD architect would have been any better.

Ted