what should i render as...??

[wviveen]

Hi everybody, i have probably an easy question for all of you...

I made a movie with vegas 4.0 and now i want to burn it to dvd.
What kind of format should i render it to to get best possible quality?

The movie fragments where made with a JVC G R-dx300E

I am burning the dvd with ulead 2.0 dvd movie factory.
I rendered my movie as mpeg2 but the result was not so good on dvd.

Please help..?

[Richard_G]

You want to have as few changes of resolution/file type as possible. As your JVC is a PAL MiniDV cam, I assume you are capturing through Firewire. If this is the case you will capture in DV format as an avi file at 720 x 576. Do your editing to produce your finished movie and then convert or render that to a format that is DVD compatible. In this case it is mpeg2 at 720 x 576. The bitrate is entirely up to you. If you go for 8000 kbs you will get no loss in quality compared with your original footage but you will only be able to fit about an hour on a DVD-R or DVD+R. Dropping the bitrate to 6000 kbs will increase the amount you can fit on the DVD disk but you may start to notice the quality is beginning to drop.

If the loss of quality is too much, render at what is known as Half D1, 352 x 576 instead of 720 x 576. This allows you to drop the bitrate to 4000 kbs without losing the quality (half the picture only requires half the bitrate for the same amount of information). This will let you get over 2 hours of good quality footage on a DVD disk.

[wviveen]

Thanks....!

I will give that a try..

[wviveen]

Where can i find the bitrate.? I could only find bitdepth, or is this the same?

And also which template do you use..?
Dvd pal (not very good quality at all)
Default (oke... but the view is sometimes somewhat jittery)
All sorts of horizontal lines..?

Please help.

Thanks.!

[Richard_G]

Horizontal lines suggests that the frame order may be wrong. What do you transfer from camcorder to pc with? As you are finishing the job with Movie Factory, I would suggest you use that to capture, edit with your chosen editing package and then put the final edit back into Movie Factory to convert to mpeg and burn.

You will transfer as DV avi, edit and save the final finished job as DV avi and then open this file in Movie Factory. When you reach the finish stage you have options for different quality settings, the best will give about an hour per disk. These quality settings are what alter the bitrate, if you select custom, you will see the different settings.