Vegas 10 - Blu Ray Help

[hellawaits77]

Hey All;

Attempting my first Blu Ray authoring w/ Vegas 10 + DVD Architect. This sound stupid, but I have a really simple question. Once I have my video in the timeline, what Blu Ray option should I render it to? I think there are 5 or 6 options.

And also, do I have to transcode the audio at all?

[norbinho]

i always use the following setting (for a video in full HD), nick, of course depends on your video:

Blu-ray 1920x1080-50i, 25 Mbit/s,

[hellawaits77]

i always use the following setting (for a video in full HD), nick, of course depends on your video:

Blu-ray 1920x1080-50i, 25 Mbit/s,

Thanks Bernd. That was actually the one that caught my eye.

[FotherMucker99]

You have to use the SONY AVC codec for Blu-Ray authoring. MPEG-2 is old/outdated and shouldn't be used for Blu-Ray- it's fine for DVD though.

[hellawaits77]

You have to use the SONY AVC codec for Blu-Ray authoring. MPEG-2 is old/outdated and shouldn't be used for Blu-Ray- it's fine for DVD though.

Shit. Looks like I'll have to do it over. Thanks for the heads up though

[hellawaits77]

Jesus. My old school dual core is going to take ~25 hours to render to that setting. Not worth the time, nor the stress on my computer.

I watched the MPEG-2 version I rendered earlier, and it looks no different than watching the raw m2t files (at least on my monitor). Gonna use it and see what happens. If it doesn;t work, I stick to DVD. Fuck it ;-)

[norbinho]

Jesus. My old school dual core is going to take ~25 hours to render to that setting. Not worth the time, nor the stress on my computer.

I watched the MPEG-2 version I rendered earlier, and it looks no different than watching the raw m2t files (at least on my monitor). Gonna use it and see what happens. If it doesn;t work, I stick to DVD. Fuck it ;-)

so far i created 2 blurays and for rendering i used the MPEG-2 for blurays. both shows look awesome and i could not say the quality is worse than in the original files.

but next time i'll try to use phil's setting and see how it works...hopefully it won't need 25 hours on my PV too

[hellawaits77]

Jesus. My old school dual core is going to take ~25 hours to render to that setting. Not worth the time, nor the stress on my computer.

I watched the MPEG-2 version I rendered earlier, and it looks no different than watching the raw m2t files (at least on my monitor). Gonna use it and see what happens. If it doesn;t work, I stick to DVD. Fuck it ;-)

so far i created 2 blurays and for rendering i used the MPEG-2 for blurays. both shows look awesome and i could not say the quality is worse than in the original files.

but next time i'll try to use phil's setting and see how it works...hopefully it won't need 25 hours on my PV too

LOL. I agree, Bernd. My PC is 4 years old, and I don't trust it to hold up w/ that much consistent work.

[hellawaits77]

I think it worked fine. The final BD plays great and looks great on my computer, just need to try it out on my regular Blu Ray player.

[Sepu]

well I tried the Sony AVC but the output file is 12 Gb and took 6 hours for the render. While playing the file with VLC it continues to stop, the audio goes but the video is blocked. I think there is something wrong...

I then tried .mxf and it took only 2 hours, with 21 Gb file output.

So I guess there is more conversion on rendering them to AVC....it doesn't sound the right thing to do.

Now I'm rendering to .m2v (MPEG Blu Ray 1920x1080 like the cam)....it seems it's going to finish in 2 hours as well.

My original files came from a Canon HFS21 in 1920x1080, 50i, 25mbps

Any comment?