Sony Vegas render advice

In Vegas Pro the easiest way is to just use the presets as follows:

Select your timeline area you wish to burn to DVD.
Go to Tools/ Burn Disk/DVD
Select the type of render you want 4:3 or 16:9; 60i or 24P from the menu.
Put a Blank DVD in your burner and render and burn.

If you need to create a menu structure DVD you will need to use DVD Architecture.


The best way for interlace selection is to just use the 60i setting and pick either 4:3 or 16X9 AR. Vegas will convert your video to 24p but the results are not as good. This is primarily for original video shot in 24p.

I would not recommend creating your own custom template unless you know what you are doing. Sony has these standard templates for a reason and they work. Changing the render parameters for a DVD can make your disk less compatible on different players.

It has always surprised me that Vegas has option for 2-3 pulldown for 60 Hz DVD-Video, but no option for 2-2 pulldown for 50 Hz DVD-Video. So these are the options:

* Treat PF25 as true 25p (set progressive in project properties) and render into 576p25. DVD Architect then will likely re-encode it into interlaced, because native progressive is not allowed for DVD-Video.

* Treat PF25 as true 25p but render into 25 frames/s, interlaced. A DVD player that is smart enough to not rely on flags only will be able to recover full frames from such quasi-interlaced video.

* Treat PF25 as interlaced and render into interlaced. This will allow adding rolling titles and stuff like that with smooth 50 Hz frequency.

To avoid blocking try increasing bitrate and shorten GOP length.