Correct Project Properties for burning DVD

laynlow wrote on 10/21/2004, 8:26 AM

Hello all,

I have been learning Vegas Movie Studio 4 for about a week now and I am really getting along well with the program now. One area the help is lacking on is the proper settings for rendering a file to be burned to DVD.

I think the correct setting is NTSC Standard (720x486, 29.970 fps), but I would like to be sure. I am assuming the NTSC DV (720x480, 29.970 fps) setting is for transferring back to DV tape. Is this correct?

Thanks for any help.

Sam

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ADinelt wrote on 10/21/2004, 8:52 AM

Hi Sam:

Your are correct in stating the Project Properties should be set to NTSC Standard 720 x 480, 29.970fps, assuming that you are using NTSC and not PAL (as in outside of North America).

When you are ready to create your DVD, you will want to render to MPEG2.

Hope this helps...
Al

laynlow wrote on 10/21/2004, 9:06 AM

Thanks for the help Al.

I am assuming that Movie Studio will render to MPEG2 when I tell it I am going to burn to DVD after clicking on the Make Movie button. Have I missed a setting somewhere else to force it to MPEG2?

Thanks,
Sam

gogiants wrote on 10/21/2004, 11:33 AM

The "Burn to DVD" option in the Make Movie wizard is sort of odd in that it will create separate sound and MPEG files.

I've found the best thing to do is to specify that you want to save the movie to your hard drive and then create an MPEG-2 file.

Your other option is to generate a .avi file, then import it into DVD Arch Studio and create your DVD, letting DVD Arch Studio do the rendering to MPEG.

Which option you choose depends on whether you anticipate making lots of tweaks and reworks in the DVD Arch Studio side of things... if so, you'd want to avoid re-rendering to MPEG-2 each time in DVD Arch Studio and you would likely want to do this ahead of time in Movie Studio itself.

laynlow wrote on 10/21/2004, 6:51 PM

Thanks all for the comments.

I finished editing today and left the computer to render in peace. Tomorrow I will find out if I was successful or not.

Then I get to start learning DVD Acrh.

nograde1 wrote on 10/25/2004, 5:25 PM

I've used Vegas 5 and Movie Studio to render a movie. When I render to a WIDESCREEN format/template I cannot get audio. There seems to be only video formats. What am I missing?

desertman wrote on 10/26/2004, 7:28 AM

I believe that you are running into the problem that I have had in the past and a work around has been given.

In Vegas Movie Studio, click the options tab, then the preferences tab, and then uncheck the "close media file when not the active application" preference.

You will need to regenerate the movie. This does work for me. It is apparently a know problem, but Sony has not given a fix for it yet.

Randy