Best way to render in Vegas for DVD Architect

Looping problem..

Umm... I have made a dvd Menu with 4 buttons (text and image). Each of them activate a movie clip.

Now with these button they play a short selection of each of the movie as a mini trailer of the clip they activate.

I also have a sound track file that plays for approx 90 seconds. When this music track finishes after 90 seconds, all the clips inside the buttons freeze. I have tried to use the looping function but it doesnt allow me to loop the whole sequence so that if the user just left the dvd running on the menu screen, the music would repeat itself.

Its no biggie but would like to fix it..
 
Several have asked why a higher or lower bit rate...?

I always assumed the obvious --
1. video quality
2. file size

Is it not that simple? The higher the bit rate, the higher the video quality. Though I can't believe a regular DVD player would have problems player and higher/lower bit rate. What a gyp!
 
Another q

Does anyone know how to create a credits screen like at the end of the movie... with the text scrolling upwards with a black back ground...?
 
Kurious...i know, but i have had problems with my Panasonic mid-priced dvd player at anything higher than 8Mbs...not sure if there is a general rule of thumb, so i always render for dvd at 8mbs, regardless of how static or motion-intensive my footage is....if someone can tell me otherwise, please do...i get a lot of conflicting info about this. Thanks!

Chris
www.vimeo.com/chrislight
 
I agree Skinny!

That was I was saying, I have a $30 dvd player that sometimes skips and pauses and does funny crap with higher bit rates... but then my pc and my Sony dvd player play in top qaulity, thanks for the post... A GYP IT AINT !
 
...but then, i got to a point, and i think some people are in denial about this...no matter how good your footage looks, it will only look so good on DVD....if your footage is shot in HD, edited in HD, then all you've been looking at is HD...your eye gets so used to HD that a dvd, no matter how high the bitrate or quality encode, you're now subjected to SD, albeit NICE SD...but definately not so pleasing to the eye when you've been staring at HD for weeks.

just a thought


Chris
 
When rendering with Vegas and the HMC150 as mpeg2, my file output was a m2t file, not a mpeg2 file! Did I do something wrong?
 
KuriousJorj said:
Several have asked why a higher or lower bit rate...?

I always assumed the obvious --
1. video quality
2. file size

Is it not that simple? The higher the bit rate, the higher the video quality. Though I can't believe a regular DVD player would have problems player and higher/lower bit rate. What a gyp!
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You will run into problems if you go much higher than 8 Mbps for more than a brief period. DVD players aren't designed for sustained bitrates of that high -- and it's not even necessary.
 
skinny! said:
Kurious...i know, but i have had problems with my Panasonic mid-priced dvd player at anything higher than 8Mbs...not sure if there is a general rule of thumb, so i always render for dvd at 8mbs, regardless of how static or motion-intensive my footage is....if someone can tell me otherwise, please do...i get a lot of conflicting info about this. Thanks!

http://www.vimeo.com/chrislight
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Do you mean you use 8 Mbps at a constant bitrate? Not necessary. You're just wasting space.
 
skinny! said:
...but then, i got to a point, and i think some people are in denial about this...no matter how good your footage looks, it will only look so good on DVD....if your footage is shot in HD, edited in HD, then all you've been looking at is HD...your eye gets so used to HD that a dvd, no matter how high the bitrate or quality encode, you're now subjected to SD, albeit NICE SD...but definately not so pleasing to the eye when you've been staring at HD for weeks.

just a thought
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It's not just HD vs. SD; it's also about the color space, particularly between a computer monitor and a standard TV.
 
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