Where to Render? DVD-A or VV4? also....

Bucoholic wrote on 3/6/2003, 10:57 AM
For the best quality of video should I render Mpeg2 in Vegas Video 4.0 or out put as AVI and use DVD-A to compress?

Also

I am Buccaneers fan, I record all of the games onto my computer using my DV camera. I then edit out the commercials using VV4. I was using DVDit PE to create my DVD's but like the functionality of DVD-A better. I create 1 file for the first half of the game. What I would like to do is make a menu that has certain key plays from the game but not have separate clips. On this menu I would have 10 plays from the game (Sacks, Int's, TD'd ....) when a play is selected it should play that 1 play and then return to the menu. Is there any way of doing this with out making several clips?

Any help would be great.

System: XP
CPU: P4 2.4
Ram: 1 gig 333mhz
HD: 120 gig WD Special Edition (for editing only)

Comments

videoman69 wrote on 3/6/2003, 1:36 PM
I just hope the NFL does not see this!
stg wrote on 3/6/2003, 1:59 PM
Sure. First create separate links for each play and point each one to the same clip. Then go into each link and set in and out points on the timeline to the specific play you want to show.
Bucoholic wrote on 3/6/2003, 2:51 PM
Great, thanks "STG". U da man. :)
beatnik wrote on 3/6/2003, 3:24 PM

What was the answer to the rendering question, waht is the best thing to do

a). render to MPEG in Vegas then send to DVD-A or
b). send to DVD-A in .avi and allow DVD-A to render to MPEG?

Thanks.
rwsjr wrote on 3/6/2003, 3:52 PM
I've been doing the same thing with my beloved Ohio State Buckeyes. I have a collection of tapes that goes back over 20 years. I only have about 10 games left to transfer to DVD. VV4 and DVD-A have sped up the process significantly.

I select the key plays of the game with markers in VV4 as I edit out commercials and break-ins from other games. Those markers become chapter points when I render to mpeg2. I bring that video into DVD-A and using a looping scene selection menu with animated thumbnails, I can watch all the plays on the scene selection menu simotaneously. Of course, I can then select that thumbnail to go that particular part of the game. I also have been making pretty cool motion menus for the main menu and loop a favorite play from the game on the main menu.

Just some ideas since you seem to be doing the same thing I am doing.

Go Buc(k)s!

jetdv wrote on 3/6/2003, 4:03 PM
I render to MPG in Vegas because you have more control of the settings. You also need to then render the audio to AC3 and then import BOTH files into DVDA.
theigloo wrote on 3/7/2003, 6:50 PM

I find that VV4 renders way faster than DVDA.

Anybody else find that?

gojira wrote on 3/8/2003, 2:27 PM
Yes, I find that V4 mpeg render times seem shorter but I haven't measured the same file in both to be conclusive.
melomano wrote on 3/9/2003, 10:49 PM
I once tried to render a 53 minute avi file in DVDA and it took over 7 hours to do it!

With VV4, I encoded both video and ac-3 audio in less than 2 hours.