Vegas newbie question

[chuckakers 426]

Just putting together my first test edit on Vegas. Looking for general info on best project settings, file output type, etc.

I'm saving the "movie" as WMV and AVI - both take forever to save. Am I doing something wrong?

Haven't tried burning straight to DVD with Architect. Hopefully that will be faster???

BTW, I'm using the i7 processor equipped p/c discussed early on this forum - should be plenty fast.

Oops, just stopped and gave me an error msge saying it stopped for an unknown reason.

Chuck Akers
D-10855
Houston, TX

[parachutist 2]

What's the source of video footage? Was it from a tape, or flash card? Was it HD or SD recording? SD will render fast, HD will take longer.

If your final goal is to burn a standard DVD, then you'll want to output to MainConcept MPEG-2. There are lots of options inside that selection... I'd choose either DVD Architect NTSC Video Stream, or DVD Architect NTSC Widescreen Video Stream, depending on your source video. This will render video file only... then you'll need to render a Dolby Digital AC3 audio stream as well.

[chuckakers 426]

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What's the source of video footage? Was it from a tape, or flash card? Was it HD or SD recording? SD will render fast, HD will take longer.

If your final goal is to burn a standard DVD, then you'll want to output to MainConcept MPEG-2. There are lots of options inside that selection... I'd choose either DVD Architect NTSC Video Stream, or DVD Architect NTSC Widescreen Video Stream, depending on your source video. This will render video file only... then you'll need to render a Dolby Digital AC3 audio stream as well.

I tried what you said, but there was no audio options and the video came out with no audio. Where do I render the audio as you instructed?

Chuck Akers
D-10855
Houston, TX

[parachutist 2]

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I tried what you said, but there was no audio options and the video came out with no audio. Where do I render the audio as you instructed?

You'll be rendering the same video twice: once to a video file (MPEG2) and once to an audio file (AC3). After the video file was created, just hit Render As again, and choose save file as type Dolby Digital AC-3 Studio and use the default template for AC-3.

Now you'll have a video file and audio file. If they both have the same name, like skydive.mpg and skydive.ac3 and they're both in the same folder, then you can just add the MPEG to a DVD Architect project and it'll automatically use the audio file as well.

[Teigen 0]

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Just putting together my first test edit on Vegas. Looking for general info on best project settings, file output type, etc.

I'm saving the "movie" as WMV and AVI - both take forever to save. Am I doing something wrong?

Haven't tried burning straight to DVD with Architect. Hopefully that will be faster???

BTW, I'm using the i7 processor equipped p/c discussed early on this forum - should be plenty fast.

Oops, just stopped and gave me an error msge saying it stopped for an unknown reason.

If you are burning it to a DVD, use DVDPREP, a script for Vegas made by VASST! Its free and super awesome! DSE pointed me to the download

If you are posting to youtube etc, you should just go to youtube and search for something like Sony vegas render for youtube There are tons of tutorials.

Project settings has no effect on the final file. all of that is taken care of in rendering. But vegas defaults the preview window to 4:3 so you can change that to 16:9 in project settings!

[chuckakers 426]

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Just putting together my first test edit on Vegas. Looking for general info on best project settings, file output type, etc.

I'm saving the "movie" as WMV and AVI - both take forever to save. Am I doing something wrong?

Haven't tried burning straight to DVD with Architect. Hopefully that will be faster???

BTW, I'm using the i7 processor equipped p/c discussed early on this forum - should be plenty fast.

Oops, just stopped and gave me an error msge saying it stopped for an unknown reason.

If you are burning it to a DVD, use DVDPREP, a script for Vegas made by VASST! Its free and super awesome! DSE pointed me to the download

If you are posting to youtube etc, you should just go to youtube and search for something like Sony vegas render for youtube There are tons of tutorials.

Project settings has no effect on the final file. all of that is taken care of in rendering. But vegas defaults the preview window to 4:3 so you can change that to 16:9 in project settings!

I want to burn DVD's, but need to do it as fast as possible. I'll be doing most of my work as a staff vidiot for a busy DZ, so turn-around time is very important.

Does the DVDPREP script make DVD burning fast and single operation?

Chuck Akers
D-10855
Houston, TX

[Skydivesg 7]

When looking at my "project properties" in DVD Architect Pro 9, the video defaults (under "disc properties") shows Video format = MPEG-2 / Bit rate = 8.000 /
Aspect ratio = 4:3 / Res = 720x480 (NTSC) /
frame rate = 29.97

Should the aspect ratio be 16:9 ?

Be the canopy pilot you want that other guy to be.

[DSE 5]

if your source was widescreen, yes.

[Skydivesg 7]

My "Audio defaults" bit rate is set to 192. Is that the correct setting?

Be the canopy pilot you want that other guy to be.

[DSE 5]

you musta done that, because Vegas sure didn't.
No. Audio should default to 48k, 16bit.

[Skydivesg 7]

I let a friend who said he "Knew Vegas" help me set it up initially. Now I'm working through it on my own.


When looking at the "disc properties" and then audio defaults it has "Audio Format" which I have set to "AC-3 Stereo"

And then the options for "Bit Rate" are 96-112-128-160-196-224-256-320-384-448

What should I choose, keep in mind this is in the DVD Architect.

Be the canopy pilot you want that other guy to be.

[DSE 5]

Do us both a favor.
Close Vegas, hold CTRL+SHIFT and boot Vegas. Hold CTRL+SHIFT until Vegas opens.
this will reset Vegas to factory settings. If your friend set up audio for 192 (I'd be surprised if your hardward supports that) then heaven only knows what other prefs and properties were changed out.

DVDA should be 48k, 16bit.

[Skydivesg 7]

Spot, I am really reluctant to do that.

I've spent the last 2 weeks setting up Vegas for my edits. Many hours invested.

How is it possible that DVD Archictect will show any thing other than what pops up in the options window?

It won't let you put anything in that isn't already there for options. And the options are listed in my post above? (I made a mistake in my post -- 196 should be 192) There is no way to put in 48K, 16bit.
Even if you try to overwrite it.

I don't see how setting everthing back to defaults in "Vegas" will change the options for "DVD Architect".

Maybe we're not on the same page here.

Now, when I go to the properties in "Vegas" under "Audio", ---- "Master bus mode" is set to "Stereo" -
"Number of stereo buses" is set to "0" - "Sample rate (Hz)" is set to "48,000" - "Bit depth" is set to "16" {maybe that's what you're talking about}and "Resample and stretch quality" is set to " Good"
(should I set that to "Best")?

Enlighten me.

BTW did you see a tall skinny kid with a somewhat long pointy nose at MOAB?

Be the canopy pilot you want that other guy to be.