Video Studio 9 DVD Creating - how do I get no reencoding?

mji · Post by **mji** » Mon Jan 23, 2006 10:59 pm

DVD Movie Factory is/was just DVD Movie Factory - no version.

I started using AC3 with VS9

VS9 appears to convert everything

I have just patched VS9

I also may investigate other DVD mastering packages I bought VS9 for editing

Post by **Ken Berry** » Mon Jan 23, 2006 11:03 pm

It's just that we are now in version 4 of Movie Factory, so if you had a very early version of it, and/or a crippled SE version, it would not have been able to handle Dolby. And you still haven't told us where the files, whose properties you set out, came from. Thanks in advance...

mji · Post by **mji** » Mon Jan 23, 2006 11:46 pm

Well with my holiday videos and even my old Beta material captured for doing DVDs of a railway I am a member of (Ebay shop MJI Productions),

DVD MF worked fine in conjunction with TMPGENC however editing a 6 camera shoot of the school play was too much for DVD MF or freebie VS5 so I downloaded VS9 and found it capable - so I bought it.

Here goes

I used DVD MF to capture all 6 tapes 1 at a time, my camera first as the main track, then dumped clips all over it as overlays - 1 good AVI, then I exported the AVI and encoded, in the mean time DVD MF stuffed itself and was unable to create an ISO so I bodge using Nero, however I needed to reburn due to 3 lip sync errors - (guess who deleted the wrong AVI 2 weeks ago) and of course who was the lip sync out on? Noone else but my daughter!!!!

In the mean time I had bought the AC3 addon for TMPGENC as well.

So encode with the well known Pegasys encoder and imported them back in.

Here is how to fix it.

Remember that TMPGENC is efficient and creates smaller files than most encoders at its price level.

I had used CBR 8900 with 448 AC3 16x9 PAL 720x568.

I set up VS9 the same

It reencodes the MPEG when it should not.

The fix was easy eventually, but has taken all evening to find. Set the bit rate in VS9 to higher than the MPEG then it does not reencode.

So all I had to do was run at 9000 and it went straight to creating the disc directories and stuff - the same as stage one of DVD MF.

Tomorrow I will burn the ISO I am creating tonight and see what it is like.

I have also applied some updates in the mean time to VS9.

I will post when I have a DVD in my hands, unfortunately a 2nd gen Pioneer A04 and work prevent me from finding out until tomorrow evening.

Thanks to every one for their help and suggestions, and I hope I can help too!

Post by **Ken Berry** » Tue Jan 24, 2006 3:03 am

Glad you found your solution!

Once I saw that your bitrate of the captured files was 8900, I was going to suggest that was the source of your reencoding blues, since the normal maximum for VS 9 is 8000. So if the latter was set as your default, the program naturally had to reencode to get the 8900 down to 8000 kbps. This is where it is handy to have VS 9 set in Preferences to ask you when you insert your first clip into the timeline whether you want the project properties to match those of the clip. And then, of course, you make sure you produce an mpeg-2 with the same properties and burn with the same properties...