Vegas 5 Render Settings

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Vegas 5 Render Settings

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I have a file on Vegas 5 that i need to render down as MPEG-2 for a DVD project. I have set it to the best settings i think and it looks amazing in the preview window (Its a collection of images faded in and out to make a 1minute video for a dvd background) and whenever I render it down there is massive quality loss. I have the bitrate set high and the quality set at high but still no look. What are the best settings to use for MPEG-2 in Vegas?
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Re: Vegas 5 Render Settings

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Let me explain first. I got 2004-04-20 uniondale in an online trade as mpeg 2. i am practicing synching livemet for shows on the next tour. I have synched it pretty good, and i am ready to burn it as dvd with menus and chapters. what would i render the mpeg as. I am planning on going to 12 shows this next tour to videotape them and reauthor them. so any help in preparing for this would be helpful. the help on vegas video isn't telling me much. Thanks in advance

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Re: Vegas 5 Render Settings

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bloodoflightning wrote:Let me explain first. I got 2004-04-20 uniondale in an online trade as mpeg 2. i am practicing synching livemet for shows on the next tour. I have synched it pretty good, and i am ready to burn it as dvd with menus and chapters. what would i render the mpeg as. I am planning on going to 12 shows this next tour to videotape them and reauthor them. so any help in preparing for this would be helpful. the help on vegas video isn't telling me much. Thanks in advance

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Don't render the video. De-mux the video. Take the video and use it as "workplate". If you have DVD-compliant MPEG-2 just export the synced audio and mux it with the video. By doing so you won't re-encode the already decoded mpg2.

I have only used the video as workplate for the audio. When the audio is synced to the video then I export the audio. Open Authoring software. Take the mpg2 video and the synced audio and author the dvd.
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Re: Vegas 5 Render Settings

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slayerdiabolus wrote:I have a file on Vegas 5 that i need to render down as MPEG-2 for a DVD project. I have set it to the best settings i think and it looks amazing in the preview window (Its a collection of images faded in and out to make a 1minute video for a dvd background) and whenever I render it down there is massive quality loss. I have the bitrate set high and the quality set at high but still no look. What are the best settings to use for MPEG-2 in Vegas?
..what happens when you lower the quality setting a little bit?
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