Print To Tape

Woodson

Woodson

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I'm trying to put my short film on a dvc when I go to the capturing in Vegas I press print to tape but it's says Warning: an error occured during the current operation The file could not be opened. Make sure that the file exists and that you have access to that file/folder. The file is a veg file .. is this why? In order for me to do that I have to render the file first to mpeg 2 or avi ? Will this make it loose picture quality?
 
Print to Tape in the Vegas captutre program is meant to play out AVI files. Use PTT from your Vegas timeline if you don't want to first creat an AVI (it will still have to render the renderable bits)

Gary
 
Gary_Kleiner said:
Print to Tape in the Vegas captutre program is meant to play out AVI files. Use PTT from your Vegas timeline if you don't want to first creat an AVI (it will still have to render the renderable bits)

Gary
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what does PTT stand for?
 
I belive it's on the Tools menu. But I don't have it in front of me, and it might be under a different one.
 
Vegas has a handy Help function. Access it from the menu or hit F1.

For instance:

Help>Index>Print>Print Video to DV Tape
 
okay, I've print to tape from the timeline, but when I watch the video on the camera its very very shaky, the picture is moving up and down pretty fast. Any idea why this is happening? It my options I put NTSC DV Widescreen 23.976 (inserting 2-3-3-2 pulldown)
 
2:3:3:2 pulldown is going to give you a stuttery look in motion -- particularly on a camera's LCD. Now, stuttery up and down? Not sure about that. Could be a refresh issue?

Try playing it out to a TV and see how it looks.
 
No stuttery up and down on the tv but it shows full screen.

Maybe I should not have put the 2:3:3:2 pulldown and put 23.976 (inserting 2-3 pulldown)? the last and third option is 29.970 (NTSC). Hmmm okay those are when I click to make custom.. but other options before are ....

NTSC DV -

Audio: 48,000 Hz, 16 Bit, Stereo, PCM Uncompressed.
Video: 29.97 fps, 720x480, Lower field first.
Pixel Aspect Ratio: 0.909. OpenDML compatible.
NTSC DV video files compatible with Sony Video Capture.

NTSC DV Widescreen -

Audio: 48,000 Hz, 16 Bit, Stereo, PCM Uncompressed.
Video: 29.97 fps, 720x480, Lower field first.
Pixel Aspect Ratio: 1.212. OpenDML compatible.
Widescreen NTSC DV video files compatible with Sony Video Capture.

NTSC DV 24P (inserting 2-3 pulldown)

Audio: 48,000 Hz, 16 Bit, Stereo, PCM Uncompressed.
Video: 23.976 fps inserting 2-3 pulldown, 720x480, Progressive.
Pixel Aspect Ratio: 0.909. OpenDML compatible.
NTSC DV video files compatible with Sony Video Capture.

NTSC DV Widescreen 24P (inserting 2-3 pulldown)

Audio: 48,000 Hz, 16 Bit, Stereo, PCM Uncompressed.
Video: 23.976 fps inserting 2-3 pulldown, 720x480, Progressive.
Pixel Aspect Ratio: 1.212. OpenDML compatible.
Widescreen NTSC DV video files compatible with Sony

NTSC DV 24p (inserting 2-3-3-2 pulldown)

Audio: 48,000 Hz, 16 Bit, Stereo, PCM Uncompressed.
Video: 23.976 fps inserting 2-3-3-2 pulldown, 720x480, Progressive.
Pixel Aspect Ratio: 0.909. OpenDML compatible.
NTSC DV video files compatible with Sony Video Capture.

and

NTSC DV Widescreen 24p (inserting 2-3-3-2 pulldown)

Audio: 48,000 Hz, 16 Bit, Stereo, PCM Uncompressed.
Video: 23.976 fps inserting 2-3-3-2 pulldown, 720x480, Progressive.
Pixel Aspect Ratio: 1.212. OpenDML compatible.
Widescreen NTSC DV video files compatible with Sony Video Capture.



What I want to do is print to tape then back to the computer as a windows video file and open it straight in DVDA 2 to burn it onto a dvd. The file from the timeline is a VOB file which I tried burning but the quality of it sucked big time when watched on tv. I figure print to tape and back to the computer as my last option and maybe I will see what I see on my timeline when I watch the dvd on TV.


It does say 29.97 when I watch in preview... but the project was shot in 24 ofcourse so do I choose NTSC DV Widescreen 24P (inserting 2-3 pulldown) option?
 
I don’t think it will make much difference – rendering to MPEG-2 (for DVD Architect) is your best bet, really. Exporting to tape and then recapturing, dumping into DVDA and then recompressing will really only lose you generations. Don’t use extra steps when they’re not necessary.

The footage may have been shot in 24p, but if you pulled the file from a DVD, the 24p frames may have been lost – unless it was a 24p DVD. If it wasn’t, then you’re just working with 60i video, and you’ll want to render as NTSC, not 24p. You can still render as 24p if you want to, but that, too, will cause a generational loss and it won’t really gain you anything.

Unless the footage is widescreen (originally, or if you cropped it), don’t render as widescreen.
 
This is what I don't get maybe with a VOB file it's different at first I started rendering in Vegas to a MPEG2 File so that I can use it in DVDA 2, when I open it there it started to rendering again then it burned the dvd. When I played it on my TV the screen is very shaky and not viewable. When I rendered to a Video for Windows file and put it in DVDA 2 to render and burn then watched it on TV it was fine, not shakyness at all. Exactly what I saw on the computer. The thing I need to change is that its dark when it's played on my newer TV in the house, you can see very dark spots, my older TV plays it exactly the way it's on my computer. So I'm thinking my computer and TV screens are not set up right, and that when I give the dvd to other ppl to watch on their tvs in will play dark like on my new TV.

Hmmm I dunno, but I'm not giving up yet, maybe I can still do something about it.
 
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