what is the best quality for DVD

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bline889

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Hi i'm having some trouble with this one. Just a question here. What is the best way to render a project for dvd. I have rendered with mpeg2 on a 720 by 480 project timeline i use a dvx100b. i have vegas 7.0 i burn to dvd and video has jagged lines like interlace problem. file size 116MB

then i rendered in wmv v9 at 4M,cbr lines are gone but picture is a little less quality

Baiscally i just want to know what is the best settings and tips to output to dvd using vegas

Someone please me.
 
I am a novice with Vegas and also found myself in your dilemma. I frequent "YouTube" vegas tutorials and think this one may be of some assistance http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MaoywukMws
The video is based on settings for "You Tube" broadcasts but they show well on Televisions too.
I have used the 6M bit rate and increased to 10M and 15M. All look very good on my 52" flatscreen. I think increasing the resolution to at least 1280 x 720 and a good bit rate are key to improving your quality.

I am quite confident that these settings are not the "best" settings, but they have provided me with a starting point to begin experimenting. Render at 1280x720 and 10M and see what kind of file size that generates for your video. If it is to big you can do some simple math to find out what bit rate will fit onto your dvd. If it is significantly smaller than 4.3 G, then you can increase the bit rate to maximize your quality.

As soon as someone with some actual Vegas experience chimes in, we will both probably improve our video rendering.
Good Luck
Doug
 
You're best off just rendering using the DVD Architect NTSC/PAL templates that are already provided for you. The "jagged lines" you're experiencing are interlacing, and that can't be gotten rid of unless you render to a progressive format (24p is most accepted by NTSC DVDs). If you shot in interlaced, you're best to stay interlaced. When you playback these files using a player like VLC, the interlaced lines will remain, however if you were to play back the final DVD on a TV, the interlaced lines will go away and instead be transformed to actual frames.

The DVD templates can be found under the MainConcept MPEG-2 encoder when you go to render. The other advantage to using these templates is that you won't have to re-render the material when making a DVD using the supplied DVD Architect because they are already at DVD specification.
 
Thanks for the reply. If i render at 24p and film in 60i or 30p will there be a difference in over quality. Also i never rendered in 24p, what happens to audio on a 24p project?
 
If you shot 60i or 30p, don't render as 24p. If it's 30p, it'll never look good. If it's 60i, you'll lose up to half your vertical resolution, and unless you shot very carefully, intending to convert to 24p all along, it won't look good, either. It'll probably end up very stroby.

If you shot 24p, then edit in a 24p project and use the DVD Architect 24p DVD template under MPEG-2.

Audio, you render separately as AC-3 or WAV (you do this with any DVD Architect template, not just 24p). There is no issue.

Also, you can edit any footage on any timeline and there's never an audio issue.
 
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