Greets,

I am working with HD footage for the first time in Vegas Pro 8.0c. I know Vegas has a lot of choices when it comes to rendering your footage.

My question is, what's the best choice to render with for the final output to DVD?
Note: as of now, I do not have a Blue Ray burner so unfortunately, it will not be a HD DVD.

The video files I'm working with are:
1440x1080x12.29.97 fps interlaced / MPEG-2

Also, are there any 3rd party plugins used for rendering that are even superior to what Vegas has?

Thanks in advance.

Mark Dalzell

PC Specs:
VisionDAW 4U 8-Core Xeon Workstation
2 Intel QUAD-Core Xeon 5365-3.0GHz, 8MB, 1333MHz Processors
16GB 667MHz Fully Buffered Server Memory Modules (2x2GB)
Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional x64 Edition
WDC 250GB, Ultra ATA100, 7200 rpm, 8MG Buffer Main OS HD
MOTU 24 I/O (main) / MOTU 2408mk3 (slave)
2 WDC 750GB, SATA II, 7200 rpm, 16MG Buffer HD (Samples)
Plexor PX-800A 18X Dbl. Layer DVD+/-RW Optical Drive
Front Panel USB Acess
Integrated FireWire (1394a) interface
Thermaltake Toughpower 850W Power Supply
Dual ESATA Bracket
2 WWDC 750GB, SATA II, 7200 RPM, 16MB Buffer HD (Raid 0)
3xUAD1 Universal Audio Cards
EVGA NVIDIA GeForce 9600GT, 512MB,
PCI-Express, DUAL-DVI Video Card
Dual 25.5" Samsung 2693HM LCD HD Monitors

Mark,

DVD's can only render in one format. Mpeg2. So select the Mainconcept DVD Widescreen option, and render your file. You can adjust the bit rate to make sure it fits on the DVD. You will need to render the audio seperately, and you will see an option for that.

Are there better tools than Vegas? Sure. But in most cases, you REALLY will not want to pay what it costs for top notch Mpeg2 encoding. Vegas does a stellar job with the Mainconcept encoder.



Greets,

I am working with HD footage for the first time in Vegas Pro 8.0c. I know Vegas has a lot of choices when it comes to rendering your footage.

My question is, what's the best choice to render with for the final output to DVD?
Note: as of now, I do not have a Blue Ray burner so unfortunately, it will not be a HD DVD.

The video files I'm working with are:
1440x1080x12.29.97 fps interlaced / MPEG-2

Also, are there any 3rd party plugins used for rendering that are even superior to what Vegas has?

Thanks in advance.

Mark Dalzell

Perrone,

Thanks for taking time to reply and your advice. I'll try it out.

Best.

Mark

Find a good beginner's guide to rendering out of Vegas for DVDA in Edward Troxel's newsletters (http://www.jetdv.com/), specifically V1#7, but they're all worth a read.