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Make A Smaller File for Rendering in Sony vs Creating Stems in Audio Editor
Hello Everyone
When I render my file in Sony, it is 20GB. This may be why I am having problems burning to my Blu ray. At least I would hope that that’s the case. I haven’t tried the other suggestions concerning the blu ray burning yet, as I am finishing up on some additional edits in audio. I have read that when people drop the audio into an audio editor, they create stems, so to make the file smaller. In my case, I did all of my audio mixing in Sony. Is there a way for me to make my file smaller? I have a total of 156 tracks.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Many thanks,
Debbie
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[Debbie King] “When I render my file in Sony, it is 20GB. This may be why I am having problems burning to my Blu ray. At least I would hope that that’s the case.”
Blu-ray can hold 25GB of video and audio + menus so 20GB should not be a problem.
[Debbie King] “I have read that when people drop the audio into an audio editor, they create stems, so to make the file smaller. In my case, I did all of my audio mixing in Sony. Is there a way for me to make my file smaller? I have a total of 156 tracks.”
You mean you have 156 tracks in your project that you rendered to stereo or did you render 156 separate tracks of audio for your Blu-ray? It isn’t clear from your post.
You should be rendering your audio as Dolby Digital AC3. This will give you the smallest file size.
~jr
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Hi John:
I have 156 tracks that renders to stereo. I posted an earlier question regarding my blu ray not burning, and it was suggested to maybe use Wave64 as an alternative. I had rendered AC3 on an earlier version of my edit, but for some reason, DVDA is not reading my disc as a blu ray and compresses my file from 20GB to 6GB. I don’t understand why I can’t upload the full 20GB. I am still working it out. Well, not really! I went back into the project and started fiddling around with the audio again. I just finished, and will try rendering and burning it again.
Many thanks for responding.
Best,
Debbie
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Sorry I didn’t see your other thread. Are you rendering using the DVD Architect templates for Blu-ray without changing them? Are you sure that your project is set to Blu-ray and not DVD?
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Hi John:
I use the setting for MainConcept MPEG2 Blu ray 1440×1080 24P and Dolby AC3. After it renders I upload it into DVDA which is fine, accept that it compresses the file a great deal and won’t allow me to burn blu ray. It reads that I have a DVD in the drive.
Many thanks,
Debbie
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[Debbie King] “It reads that I have a DVD in the drive.”
Well there is your problem right there. Try burning it to an ISO file first. That should be one of the built-in options. Then you can burn the ISO file to Blu-ray with a free utility like BurnAware.
~jr
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Thank you John:
So I would first render it with the settings I posted before, MPEG2 1440×1080 and AC3, then in DVDA burn it as an ISO, then burn the ISO to blu ray. I just want to be clear on the process.
Also when I upload it to DVDA as a blu ray setting the audio levels move. My dialogue, music and sound effects are thrown and I don’t understand why. Places in Sony that were loud is now very low in DVDA with the blu ray settings. The other problem is that it compresses my 20GB file to a 6GB, which may explain why there is a change in my audio.
Many thanks,
Debbie
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You don’t really mention it in this post, but did you set the project settings within DVDA to Blu-ray. Sounds like it is still at the default of dvd instead. DVDA does not detect from your rendered video you upload to it what type of disc format you would like to create. In DVDA, go to Properties under the File menu.
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Thank you so much Mark. No I didn’t set DVDA to Blu ray. I thought that it would detect it from the file imported.
Thank you so much. I’ll try it now.
Best,
Debbie
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[Debbie King] “No I didn’t set DVDA to Blu ray. I thought that it would detect it from the file imported.”
You know, there is always a point at which you just assume people are setting their project up correctly and you don’t want to insult them by asking the obvious question but good on Mark for asking it.
DVD Architect will make whatever the project is set up for. It doesn’t care what video you give it… it will convert that footage to the project format. What is happening is DVD Architect is converting your Blu-ray render to DVD format because the project is set to make a DVD. You definitely need to set your DVD Architect project to Blu-ray if you expect it to create a Blu-ray disc.
~jr
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Thanks John:
What a relief. I thought I was in the twilight zone. I rendered again and uploaded with the proper DVDA blu ray settings and all picked up well. Now I’ll see if burning will be as smooth.
Thank you so much.
Best,
Debbie
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