I've recently downloaded trial versions of Sony's Vegas Studio (Version
6.0b, build 126) and DVD Architect Studio (version 3.0b build 93) for
evaluation. I've found that they more than meet my needs for editing
and DVD menu creation. However, Architect Studio doesn't allow you to
burn a DvD; you're only allowed to preview the project in a DVD player
simulation within the application. I found that the on-screen display
of the video was poor - the picture was very grainy and movement very
jerky (as if frames were dropped). The DV-AVI files I fed into
Architect play much better than this in both Vegas Studio and Windows
Media Player.

I've checked the Preferences-General-Use Microsoft DV Reader box and
this has no effect on the way the video plays. I'm assuming DVD
Architect's previewer is just rendering the DV-AVI file and has not
transcoded it.

Do other users of DVD Architect Studio notice that video played in the
previewer is poor in the way I described? Also, what is the general
opinion of the quality of Architect Studio's MPEG encoder? Your
replies will be appreciated.

--Mike

Mike,

I started using Vegas Studio a few years ago and to be honest I'm very
impressed with the codec. But I'm using a little bit another schema to
create and burn my DVD disks. I create Mpeg2 files using Vegas and then I
create disks in Nero using smart option which assumes - no recoding, just
take the file as is and use it. I assume that DVD Architect is maybe a good
tool, but I tried it couple times and didn't find it very convenient for
myself. Maybe it's my old habit of using Nero, I don't know.

Also since you're using Demo/Trial you're not able to get a valid MPeg2 file
and test it out. Although you can probably find these files stored somewhere
in TEMP dirs on your machine before Vegas Studio deletes these files after
you reviewed them. If/When you install a workable version with activation
and all other stuff you'll see that you can create mpeg2 files and burn up
to 2 hours of a very good video on one standard 4.5 DVD disk with the
quality pretty close to TV broadcast, but only if your camcorder is good
enough to originally bring you this quality with AVI files. My GL2 is close
to perfect one and I see that even when children run in the forest (a very
busy picture and hard task for codec) in this movie the picture is excellent
after encoding with Vegas Studio. I've never seen something like that trying
half of dozen different codecs before I finally bought this software.

Thanks a lot to the people in this newsgroup for letting me know about Vegas
and its smaller sister Vegas Studio, that's all I need and like to do my
movies.

I know that at least couple more people in this NG are using the same
product and can explain you more details about it.

Regards,
Just D.

"Micheal Ra" wrote in message
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I've recently downloaded trial versions of Sony's Vegas Studio (Version
6.0b, build 126) and DVD Architect Studio (version 3.0b build 93) for
evaluation. I've found that they more than meet my needs for editing
and DVD menu creation. However, Architect Studio doesn't allow you to
burn a DvD; you're only allowed to preview the project in a DVD player
simulation within the application. I found that the on-screen display
of the video was poor - the picture was very grainy and movement very
jerky (as if frames were dropped). The DV-AVI files I fed into
Architect play much better than this in both Vegas Studio and Windows
Media Player.

I've checked the Preferences-General-Use Microsoft DV Reader box and
this has no effect on the way the video plays. I'm assuming DVD
Architect's previewer is just rendering the DV-AVI file and has not
transcoded it.

Do other users of DVD Architect Studio notice that video played in the
previewer is poor in the way I described? Also, what is the general
opinion of the quality of Architect Studio's MPEG encoder? Your
replies will be appreciated.

--Mike