Wav. rendering problem

bluejohn wrote on 10/4/2004, 6:39 PM

I'm trying to complete a first run through with this program. I opened a short mpeg, did some editing, added a wav. file as a sound track, and rendered for dvd. The video portion renfered fine, while the wave rendering did nothing at all after 22 minutes, telling me to expect over 9 hours to completion. After I hit cancel, the program froze. Any ideas?? Thanks

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gogiants wrote on 10/4/2004, 7:46 PM

You might want to try the option to "Save to your hard drive" instead of "Burn it to DVD." When you save it to your hard drive you can save it as an MPEG-2 file, which is what you'll need anyway to make a DVD.

There's been some discussion here as to exactly why Sony included a "Burn to DVD" option in the wizard when really you need a program like DVD Architect Studio or some alternative to actually create everything you need to burn to DVD.

bluejohn wrote on 10/4/2004, 9:11 PM

Thanks, I'll give that a try. I'm new to the program and the forum and appreciate the feedback. The program saves to hard drive anyway if you select burn to DVD. I don't want to lose any audio quality as much of my stuff contains music. Will I lose audio quality by doing as you suggest? Thanks again.

gogiants wrote on 10/5/2004, 8:00 AM

I'm not completely sure how this works, but here is a bit to think about on the audio quality:

With Movie Studio 4, you don't have the ability to tweak the audio settings when creating an MPEG-2 file. If you look at the screen it will give you the details (in kbps) on the audio portion of the file you'll create. Also, if you use DVD Architect Studio, it will tend to "compress" the audio when it makes the DVD image. None of that sounds terribly promising, but I've found it sounds pretty good, and if your ultimate target is a DVD then it might be the price of admission, at least when using the Movie Studio line of products.

If you are not going to be making a DVD, then you should be able to use other file formats instead of MPEG-2. I believe most of these other formats give you an "advanced render" button that would allow you to fine-tune things like audio.