vv3 rendered to dvd now can't view file

bulldog101 wrote on 3/3/2002, 9:50 AM

I have captured my clips and edited in vv3, Rendered as DVD NTSC, It took over 15 hrs to render, the rendered file has m2v file ext and none of my programs recognize
the extention even vv3. Anyone know what the problem is or does it have to burned to
DVD before it can be played back. As you can tell I'm new to this and any help is greatly appreciated.

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mrwizard wrote on 3/3/2002, 11:44 AM

I just rendered a small project using the DVD NTSC template on MainConcept MPEG-2 because I was curious about your problem. (I'm just getting into burning DVD's)

I don't know where the .m2v file extension came from on your rendering. Mine came out as .mpg and played fine in Media Player 6.4. Is there something that you changed that I didn't? FWIW, I used the TV spot sample for this test. (It compiles in just a couple of seconds.)

Try the TV spot and let me know if we get different results...maybe something is set differently between our machines. (like there are only a few parameters.....<grin>)

bulldog101 wrote on 3/3/2002, 1:01 PM

mrwizard thanks for help
I just tried 2 one minute clips that are already mpeg files.
put them on the time line to make a 2 minute movie.
Clicked on (file) (render as) and selected DVD NTSC
I took over 10 minutes to render, but it said it was rendering the (file name).mpg
but after it finishes it has the .m2v extention on it.
Sense it was already a mpeg2 file it shouldn't take that long to render should it.
My system is 1.2ghz Athlon.
I tried it again and chose mpeg1 and it had the right extention, I'm confused.

Lody wrote on 3/3/2002, 1:37 PM

The m2v extension is used for MPEG2 files that are video only (no audio stream). Check if the audio tab in your template if everything is checked.

bulldog101 wrote on 3/3/2002, 1:53 PM

Thanks Lody
Yea I finally found it, man there's alot of options in there.
Now I can experiment with quality.