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First time creating Blu-Ray
This is the first time I will attempt to make a Blu-Ray disc. All my other work was in SD to DVD.
The footage that I have is HDV 1080-60i (1440×1080), 29.970 fps. What would be the recommended settings to render the files to do the DVD authoring using DVDA Pro 5.2?
Also, in the past, I had to set the Field Order to None (progressive scan) when I was doing it for HD TVs. Will I need to change that or do I leave it as Upper field first?
Mike Yoneda
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[Mike Yoneda] “The footage that I have is HDV 1080-60i (1440×1080), 29.970 fps. What would be the recommended settings to render the files to do the DVD authoring using DVDA Pro 5.2?”
You want to render your video using the Main Concept MPEG-2 codec with the Blu-ray 1920×1080-60i, 25 Mbps video stream template.
Then render your audio using the Dolby Digital AC-3 Pro codec with the Stereo DVD template.
Give both files the same filename (only with the .m2v and .ac3 extension) and DVD Architect Pro will know that they are the video and audio streamns for the same movie.
[Mike Yoneda] “Also, in the past, I had to set the Field Order to None (progressive scan) when I was doing it for HD TVs. Will I need to change that or do I leave it as Upper field first?”
I don’t know why you thought you needed to do that before but I’m guessing that DVD Architect re-rendered your video to interlaced because you cannot put progressive video at 29.97fps on a DVD or Blu-ray. That doesn’t conform to the spec. Valid formats are 60i, 50i & 24p only.
~jr
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[John Rofrano] “I don’t know why you thought you needed to do that before but I’m guessing that DVD Architect re-rendered your video to interlaced because you cannot put progressive video at 29.97fps on a DVD or Blu-ray. That doesn’t conform to the spec. Valid formats are 60i, 50i & 24p only.”
I only encountered this when doing DVDs using SD. I was getting some “fuzziness” around the soccer players in my videos when I either selected Upper field or Lower field. One user recommended that I do the None (Progressive) since I was making this for LCD TVs. It did fix my problem. Also, I rendered the SD just like you mentioned for the HD, by separating the video from the audio. So, there was no re-rendering.
Mike Yoneda
High Angle Video
Mililani, HI -
[Mike Yoneda] “Also, I rendered the SD just like you mentioned for the HD, by separating the video from the audio. So, there was no re-rendering.”
If you rendered it to 24p there was no encoding. If you rendered it for 30p (i.e., 29.97p) it would have been re-encoded to be interlaced (60i) but since you already smoothed it out by deinterlacing it probably looked fine.
~jr
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I tried rendering and it was very very slow. Is this normal? For a 27 minute clip, how long should I expect it to render? I have an AMD 1090T hex-core processor running at 3.21 GHz with 8 GB of RAM.
Mike Yoneda
High Angle Video
Mililani, HI -
[Mike Yoneda] “I tried rendering and it was very very slow. Is this normal? For a 27 minute clip, how long should I expect it to render? I have an AMD 1090T hex-core processor running at 3.21 GHz with 8 GB of RAM.”
It depends on what FX you used. Some are more CPU intensive than others. It could easily take 3x-4x real-time to render especially if you selected an FX that is single threaded because it will only use one core are really slow things down.
~jr
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