Topic: Rendering issue with Vegas Studio 9

[mmadd29]

I'm using Vegas Studio 9 for my multi-camera mixes.  I used Studio, and Adobe Encore to make DVD's, but have since moved to DVD Architect.

I shoot everything in 16:9, and when I get done I render it as NTSC Widescreen as an .avi.  When I used Adobe to do the DVD, it looked correct aspect ratio wise.  Now since I have moved to Architect, it is 16:9, but there it is in the middle of the TV, with bars on top and bottom, and sides.  It is like it is half screen.  It used to fill the whole Widescreen TV.

I just looked another show I rendered in Studio, but haven't put it in Architect yet.  On my widescreen computer the show is 16:9 with bars on the top & bottom, and sides.

What is the proper setting to render so that is the show is 16:9 and fills the full screen of a widescreen TV?  I never had this issue the Premiere, (but had every computer realted issue), so it's something I'm doing in Studio.

When creating a DVD with Architect, what is the proper way to create it so that it is correct on the TV?

Thanks in advance.

[beatkilla]

First in vegas go to project properties and make sure they are set to the same settings as your source footage,when you put media in the timeline vegas does not change the default project properties which are standard 4:3 dv

[BayTaynt3d]

Why aren't you rendering out to MPEG2 using one of the widescreen DVD presets? So is DVD Architect re-transcoding your AVI's again to MPEG2?

If you render out straight to the right MPEG2 preset from Vegas, then render out your audio (either PCM or AC3), you can then just plop your files into DVD Architect and it will just use the files verbatim as is.

[SClassical]

BTW this is a Vegas question...I used to render 1hr video this this settings MPEG2, BEST, render rate: 7,700,000, no audio..it will usually take about 1 hour to finish rendering. Now it is taking 7 hours to render my avi files to mpeg with the same settings. Is there something wrong with my computer? Do need to clear something out? I tried to clean up my C drive and defragment my C drive hoping it will speed up the rendering process like it used to be. But still it is taking about 7 hours to render my videos. Can someone tell me why it is happening?

[beatkilla]

Are you using magic bullet fx or any effects?heavy color correction?that can triple your render times.also check to make sure the opacity is at 100percent at the track level and event level .its easy to accidentally lower the opacity which will add to render time.do you have alot of text or a constant watermark?that could also be the culprit.and also render to a different harddrive than the one your source media is on,you dont want to read from and write to the same drive cuz it will take longer.

[mmadd29]

Are you using magic bullet fx or any effects?heavy color correction?that can triple your render times.also check to make sure the opacity is at 100percent at the track level and event level .its easy to accidentally lower the opacity which will add to render time.do you have alot of text or a constant watermark?that could also be the culprit.and also render to a different harddrive than the one your source media is on,you dont want to read from and write to the same drive cuz it will take longer.

Great suggestions....Thanks

[SClassical]

Thanks for your reply. I tried refragmenting my C drive after cleaning it and it seems to work faster now. So maybe it's due to not refragmenting it.

[mmadd29]

Why aren't you rendering out to MPEG2 using one of the widescreen DVD presets? So is DVD Architect re-transcoding your AVI's again to MPEG2?

If you render out straight to the right MPEG2 preset from Vegas, then render out your audio (either PCM or AC3), you can then just plop your files into DVD Architect and it will just use the files verbatim as is.

I have a custom template setup for rendering to widescreen DVD which works well.  I understand that by rending to MPEG2 that would speed up the DVD process because DVDA would need to transcode the file.  I do have a couple questions since I've never done it like this:

Is the quality better if I used this method?  I would change my custom template to MPEG2.

Can I have the audio with the video?

Thanks in advance.

[beatkilla]

My method is to render the mpeg from vegas,you don't want dvd architect to render for you.you render 2 files out of vegas,an audio file and a mpeg video.name them the same and dvd architect will know to use them together.

[jamhead64]

was having the same issues and found solutions that worked in this thread. thanks!!!!

[guitard]

I used Studio, and Adobe Encore to make DVDs, but have since moved to DVD Architect.

I stopped using DVD Architect - it all too often wants to render the audio without any options of stopping it from doing so.

I switched to TMPGenc DVD Author - and haven't ever regretted it.

[junkyardt]

so this may seem like a noob-ish question but i'm ready to render with Vegas and can't figure out how to render a full show into separate clips/songs easily. of course i'm envisioning i could do it one at a time by splitting up clips, moving each clip to its own separate track (ending up with dozens and dozens of tracks), muting all the other tracks but song 1 and render...next mute all tracks but song 2 and render...etc. that seems like a lot of tedious work though. is there a simpler way to tell it to render all clips at the same time, one after another seamlessly? i've poked around the menus and help contents and can't figure out how to do that. thanks.

[TimeBandit]

put the full recording single track, set markers in the time line where you want to split into tracks then you have just to select the areas between the markers (Marker 1 to 2 = Clip 1, Marker 2 to 3 = Clip 2 and proceed )

on rendering screen the program should automatically set into "selection only" (don´t know the english text there, using german version )

[beatkilla]

Unless you want fade in fade out on all your individual songs theres no need to make splits or move to other tracks and mute.What you could do is set IN and OUT points for each section you want to render.Place the cursor where you want the render to start and press the I for inpoint on keyboard,the inpoint is set.The same for where you want the render to end but press O for outpoint.A loop region is set.Go to render and make sure the "render loop region only" box is selected.  After that render is complete you will do the same for all other songs.

[junkyardt]

thanks for the suggestions. what i've begun doing is keeping the whole show in one track, but splitting between songs and dragging the loop region over each song and rendering loop region only. then drag the loop region to the next song and repeat. splitting makes it easy as that way i don't have to make note of the exact min/sec/frame i want -- the dragging feature just intuitively locks to the split point. still have to do it one song at a time, but i don't imagine there's going to be a neat way to do it all at once as i don't see a 'batch render' feature anywhere.

btw, i'm encoding a bunch of shows for upload to youtube and/or facebook, and taking into account youtube's recommendations for settings that will yield best results when uploaded...i'm encoding to mp4 obviously, starting with the iPod 640x480 template, then just tweaking it by changing rendering quality from 'good' to 'best' and checking the 'two-pass' box. sound good or should i be doing something different?