Help - dvd

[New_Zealand]

I need to burn a film I shot onto a DVD. The film runs 1.48. I did the burn from Vegas time line (had to break it up onto two parts) but it isn't the best quality. I'm on Vegas Pro 9 and Vegas Dvd 5. All I want to do is burn the footage onto the DVD without ANY chapters etc.... Just drop it into the player and it start right away.

Does anyone have a step by step to just burn it? I did do a WMV and drop it into the DVD time line and I get Menu 1 on there. I have a showing of the film in a small theater with the overhead digital projector. When I did a test run the dark scenes you couldn't see the talents due to being too dark and everything else is pretty much wash out.

Thanks

 

[rs170a]

The film runs 1.48. I did the burn from Vegas time line (had to break it up onto two parts) but it isn't the best quality.

I don't like using that feature as you have NO control over the final quality.

I did do a WMV and drop it into the DVD time line

WMV is OK for web renders but never for a DVD.
Always do this using MPEG-2 for video and AC-3 for your audio.

[/QUOTE]Does anyone have a step by step to just burn it?

Give this a try.
If you can, a dual layer DVD (Verbatim is the recommended brand for this) is best as you can do it as a custom 8,000,000 CBR setting.
If dual layer isn't an option, then you need to do this as an MPEG-2 custom 2-pass VBR encode from Vegas using the following settings.
9,168,000 / 5,232,000 / 3,136,000
This assumes AC-3 audio at the default of 192k.
I've been using the bitrate calculator found at http://www.johncline.com/bitcalc110.zip and it's never let me down.
I set the Safety Margin to 5% and click "1 kilobit = 1000 bits" (this latter setting is found by clicking the Settings button on the main screen.
Give both files the same name and render them to the same folder. This way, when you load the video, DVDA automatically loads the audio.

To have your DVD start right away, open up DVDA, go File - New and click Single Movie.

When I did a test run the dark scenes you couldn't see the talents due to being too dark and everything else is pretty much wash out.

That comment has me concerned as a long program will only make bad things (especially dark scenes) worse when burned to DVD.
How do these scenes look on the Vegas timeline?
How do they look on the scopes?
If they're too dark there, you may want to use tools such as curves and/or levels to brighten things up a bit.
If they're too noisy, Mike Crash has some free noise reduction tools on his site at http://mikecrash.com/index.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=6

Good luck with the showing.

Mike

 

[New_Zealand]

In Vegas time line I go up to FILE and click on RENDER AS: Then I go to SAVE AS TYPE: and click on MPEG-2 and below that it has TEMPLATE: what setting should that be set at on DVD?
After that I click on CUSTOM and do my setting from there. I shot the film on the HVX200A at 24 fps. I noticed that there are a few choices should I go with 24 or 23,976 or 23,976 + 2-3 pull down?
Aspect Ratio should be 16:9.

 

[El Director]

Render it out the at the same framerate as your project and as you shot it. When you prepare the DVD, you'll go to Optimize and from there you can ensure that DVD A is seeing the movie as 24. DVD players will perform the pulldown for you.

 

[New_Zealand]

THANKS GUYS - will give that a try