Need help -- 1920X1080m to mpeg2 for DVDA. Which is the best, quickest, easiest way?

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KuriousJorj

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Got footage filmed on some canon camera/camcorder. I'm using Vegas Pro 8.0c.

The footage is 1920X1080X24, 29.970fps, mov extension, H.264, Little Endian codec.

I've had nothing but trouble working with it in the Vegas timeline, google says many others have as well, I had to edit smaller segments individually (to keep from crashing), and now want to render those into avi's, put those on a single timeline, then render that into an mpeg 2 for DVDA.

Just spent 3 hrs trying to render a 20 min footage segment into an avi. It failed, as the drive ran out of space. (file was over 100 GB). Was using the Sony YUV codec.


QUESTION: What is the quickest, smallest (file size) and most lossless render-scheme or 'workflow' for me to get this footage into an mpeg? (From 1920X1080 .mov segments into the DVDA mpeg 2 for DVD?)

Thanks!
 
Update: I was able to render straight to an mpeg2. So I guess I'll just do that, and skip any intermediary steps.
 
Ok, never mind, was only able to render one clip straight to mpeg2, the rest all lock up Vegas at 0%. So I still need to render to avi, or some intermediate format first, before rendering to mpeg 2 for DVDA.

It's been years since I've had a project that was this much a pain in the ass.
 
First of all, I advise against rendering 1920x1080 footage to AVI. Sounds like your problem may be coming from your computer's capabilities. Have you dealt with HD before? You probably need to transcode your footage before editing. H.264 can, indeed, be a pain in the ass to deal with at times.
 
Yeah, I've been shooting footage on the HVX200 for the last few years, but this footage was sent to me from someone else.

I have an AMD quad-core 3.2 GHz, 4gb RAM (XP tho, so only reads 3), so HD is usually no problem.

Anyhow, I've found that if I keep projects shorter than (largest so far) 32 minutes, I can work with them. Though the render times (to go from 1920X1080, to mpeg2) are nearly 3X as long as the project itself.

IIRC, when I render HVX footage into mpeg2 with Vegas, it usually only takes around 120% to do, whereas this is taking 300%.
 
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