Obtaining Best DVD Quality

[djkoz]

I posted a similar question about a months ago and I thought I understood the answer but I have to ask/rephrase it again.

I volunteered my time to create a promotional video for a charity that I now want to produce into a DVD. I've used Vegas to do the editing.

In a previous reply someone said that I should RENDER the Vegas project in DVD Architect. I do not see a way to that that, DVD Architect does not seem to allow me to import a raw Vegas file, only a pre-rendered file . So, assuming I misunderstood his suggestion I am assuming that I should do the following:

1. Render the project to an AVI file in Vegas using the NTSC template with the best rendering quality and the following defaults:
Audio: 48,000 Hz, 16 Bit, Stereo, PCM Uncompressed.
Video: 29.97 fps, 720x480, Lower field first.
Pixel Aspect Ratio: 0.909. OpenDML compatible.

2. Import that rendered AVI file into a new DVD Architect project with the following properties: NTSC 720x480, AC-3 stereo and burn to a DVD.

Is that it? Or is there a better way for me to achieve a higher quality DVD?

Thanks very much for your help.

Dan

 

[Cranky]

Render into MPEG-2 file that is DVD-video compliant (Vegas has a template for that). You would have to render audio separately, because for some strange reason Vegas does not output AC3 audio in supposedly DVD-video compliant video file. Then load to DVD Architect and burn. Depending on settings, DVDA may or may not consider your input files DVD-video compliant, your goal is for DVDA not to re-render video.

 

[djkoz]

Thank you. I think I understand it now.

Dan