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Old May 2nd, 2006, 08:05 AM   #1
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Render question

Do you render and save to AVI or a Mpf format when your getting ready to burn a DVD in DVD Architect 3?
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Old May 2nd, 2006, 08:13 AM   #2
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You can do either but you will get slightly better results if you render an MPEG video stream and AC3 audio stream directly from Vegas. Use the DVD Architect MPEG2 templates that Vegas provides.

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Old May 3rd, 2006, 11:16 AM   #3
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Do you render and save to AVI or a Mpf format when your getting ready to burn a DVD in DVD Architect 3?
I haven't used anything BUT the DVDA render of MPEG2. The result is great quality and no re-rendering from inside DVDA. Granted, the MPEG2 render from Vegas will take a long time if the project is of any complexity or size and you won't be able to network render (still haven't been able to get that working).

But you shouldn't accept the quality hit by using any other format.

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Old May 3rd, 2006, 06:20 PM   #4
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Could someone explain what DVDA is?
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Old May 3rd, 2006, 06:27 PM   #5
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DVDA = (Sony) DVD Architect...at least I hope it does as that's how I've been interpreting it over the last couple of years.
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It's simply much easier to type DVDA instead of the full "DVD Architect". (Plus, you don't need to know how to spell "Architect" :-) )
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Just bear in mind that it's also a porn-industry reference, hence the reason many are loathe to use the "DVDA" moniker. Makes some folks snigger a bit. I tend to use "DVD A" instead, FWIW.
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Old May 4th, 2006, 04:25 AM   #8
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Yes a very bad choice of acronyms I think.

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Old May 4th, 2006, 07:32 PM   #9
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whats wrong wth porn?? ;)
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whats wrong wth porn?? ;)
Too much to get into here... and also the reason I have never heard of any sort of alternate meanings and, I'm sure, I do NOT want to know.

p.s. I think this thread has gone far enough now.
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Old May 4th, 2006, 11:23 PM   #11
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I use uncompressed AVI

I've been rendering TV :30's to uncompressed AVI's and then re-rendering out again in DVD architect. This yields a razor sharp output so far as I can tell.

The MPEG streams are compressed and result in less data on the DVD then when I re-render from AVI, so I'm convinced there is more compression if you go straight to MPEG.
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The MPEG streams are compressed and result in less data on the DVD then when I re-render from AVI, so I'm convinced there is more compression if you go straight to MPEG.

Of course there is. You render to DVavi first, you're going to a 4:1:1 sample, and then you render to MPEG from that, and you've got 4:2:0, which means it's really 4:1:0 because it's so starved at encode input.
Always render from the timeline to MPEG if you can.
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