Best quality renderer for Sony Vegas

Author: rockin
Date: 19-Oct-2008, 10:45 AM

Author: rockin
Time: 19-Oct-2008 10:45 AM
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Hi guys, I'm using Sony Vegas to do a couple of my own edits but I'm struggling to find the best format to render my edit in. I've probably been through every preset format and even configured them to my own liking, but the quality is always lower than a standard DVD. I want the quality to be the same or as good, not worse! In searching for this, I did find some formats that offered similar quality, namely the HD ones such as the mpeg4 1920x1080 presets but they take too long to render under those profiles.

Can anyone recommend a decent one to use or maybe a codec I can use in conjunction with sony vegas that isn't already there?

thanks

Author: MeBeJedi
Time: 19-Oct-2008 6:30 PM
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Well, what's your source material? Keep in mind that commercial DVDs are made from film masters with a great deal more resolution. If you are making an DVD from an NTSC source (i.e. a videocamera), then it's not going to look like the transfer on a commercial DVD.

And that's not even going into comparing the quality of a consumer videocamera versus a profession TV camera...

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Author: ThrowgnCpr
Time: 20-Oct-2008 9:36 AM
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for best quality, its probably best to rip the dvd to a lossless AVI, then when you are done editing frameserve to CCE to render for DVD.

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Author: rockin
Time: 20-Oct-2008 12:20 PM
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Well it's just one of my own personal edits of The Phantom Menace DVD, I am using the VOBS from the DVD in Sony Vegas. I'll try the lossless render, but I have a feeling that is going to use an absolute immense amount of space. :S

Author: ThrowgnCpr
Time: 20-Oct-2008 2:28 PM
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Vegas doesnt handle MPG (here in your case in VOB format) editing that well. I have never had good results with this. You are correct though that lossless AVI is going to require a TON of space.

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Author: MeBeJedi
Time: 24-Oct-2008 12:37 PM (Edited)
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ThrowgnCpr said:
Vegas doesnt handle MPG (here in your case in VOB format) editing that well. I have never had good results with this. You are correct though that lossless AVI is going to require a TON of space.

Agreed on all counts. Vegas can handle most MPGs/VOBs, but it's not great, and VOBs with branching video get screwed up (try putting in the opening crawl from one of the SW DVDs...you can see the languages switching back and forth. Very weird.)

Buy a big hard drive (they're very cheap now), and render out to lossless AVI first. It'll also render out of Vegas much faster this way.

MeBeJedi: Sadly, I believe the prequels are beyond repair.
JediRandy: They’re certainly beyond any repair you’re capable of making.

MeBeJedi: You aren’t one of us.
Go-Mer-Tonic: I can’t say I find that very disappointing.

JediRandy: I won’t suck as much as a fan edit.