1080 Rendering in Vegas

[Bleeding Me]

Yeah I know, another HD question. But I'm wondering whether the gurus around here that can help as all the info out there has confused the shit out of me. I recorded about an hours worth of footage when the Foo Fighters were just out here and I want to convert to Bluray.

I used a Sony HX9V at 1080i 60fps as I couldn't really tell the difference between this and 1080p, plus it kept the file sizes down. Obviously everything looks fine playing the raw .mts files, but of course anything over 2gb has split the files into 2. So basically I want to keep close to the same settings as possible and the bitrate as you see below is quite high for the standard templates. But I'm getting conflicting info about the framerates etc in.

In AVICodec I'm getting the following, which seems about right.
File: 1.97 GB (1.97 GB) duration: 0:12:36, type: DSH, 1 audio stream(s), quality: 100 %
Video: 1.95 GB, 22231 Kbps, 59.940 fps, 1920*1088 (16:9)

And Media Info & Vegas 11 I'm getting this

Format : BDAV
Format/Info : Blu-ray Video
File size : 1.98 GiB
Duration : 12mn 35s
Overall bit rate mode : Variable
Overall bit rate : 22.5 Mbps
Maximum Overall bit rate : 24.0 Mbps
Frame rate : 29.970 fps
Color space : YUV
Scan type : Interlaced
Scan order : Top Field First
Stream size : 1.88 GiB (95%)

So I guess my question is, is 1080i a fake 60 fps and keeping that in mind, should I Render in Vegas as 29.970 fps and/or convert to 29.970 fps at 1080p as I heard that 1080i at 60fps is equivalent of 1080p at 29.970 fps. Or just stick to what Vegas recommends?

[FotherMucker99]

First select the SONY AVC/MVC codec and then use the "Blu-ray 1920x1080-60i, 16 Mbps video stream" template and don't change any settings on that template.

The resulting file should be a .avc file which is only your video!

In DVDA just open a 60i Blu-ray project and you're good to go.

[Bleeding Me]

Cheers mate, thanks for that. I did as you said, didn't take too long to render the files. I am having issues playing the avc files on my PC for some reason, but they work okay in in DVDA. PC is a little old though, so might be time to pull out the under utilized Laptop when authoring.

Just another question, I'm only used to using TMPG Authoring works, which is a piece of piss really. In DVDA I need to add the 8 or 9 videos into one separate timeline which contain 2 songs each, so they play back just like 1 long file with separate chapters. Can this be done in bulk? And does DVDA have an option to add transitions going from 1 file to the next, like fading in out out to the next file? Or does this need to be done in Vegas before rendering?

Cheers.

[FotherMucker99]

Just another question, I'm only used to using TMPG Authoring works, which is a piece of piss really. In DVDA I need to add the 8 or 9 videos into one separate timeline which contain 2 songs each, so they play back just like 1 long file with separate chapters. Can this be done in bulk? And does DVDA have an option to add transitions going from 1 file to the next, like fading in out out to the next file? Or does this need to be done in Vegas before rendering?

I suppose all the songs were shot with the same camera?

You should have done this in Vegas. Import all videos into the timeline, add your transitions (just right click into the timeline and select a transition there) and then export your video.

[Bleeding Me]

Thanks for the response. Yeah, the songs were all recorded on the same camera. I've pasted everything into the same project now with transitions etc, plus I have 2 audio sources which was a bit of a pain, but shall see how I go converting.

Just another quick question. I also have some footage from another source, but it was shot at 720p 25 fps. Do I leave it at this when rendering, or will I need to match the project setting and upscale? I plan to just put it as bonus material in another track on the disc and I know commercial Blurays often mix up their source material. I know Authoring Works will just re-encode it to match, but DVDA may be different.