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  AVCHD in Sony Vegas to DVD and HD DVD

  Posted by Richard Foster on July 26, 2008 at 11:29 pm

  Apologies if this has already been answered, I have looked through previous posts.

  I’ve bought a Panasonic SD5 camcorder which produces AVCHD videos. I’m using Sony Vegas 8 to edit them and intend on using DVD architect to burn them. Please could you answer the following questions?

  1.) To use DVD architect I must encode the Vegas project to MPG or AVI, i.e. it is not possible to import the project?

  2.) What is the best encoding format to use to create a normal DVD? I have tried numerous configurations in different codecs and each one seems to lose a substantial amount of video quality.

  3.) What is the best codec to use to create HD DVDs to play on a HD DVD player and does a HD DVD player support AVCHD?

  4.) I’ve been creating the Vegas projects as HD NTSC, is this correct?

  Sorry if I’m missing something obvious, I’m just stuck with the best thing to do with the project! Thanks in advance.

  Richard Foster replied 18 years, 2 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Douglas Spotted eagle

  July 27, 2008 at 3:37 am

  1.) To use DVD architect I must encode the Vegas project to MPG or AVI, i.e. it is not possible to import the project?

  No, you cannot import the project. You’ll get best results rendering to AVCHD or MPEG2 in Vegas.

  2.) What is the best encoding format to use to create a normal DVD? I have tried numerous configurations in different codecs and each one seems to lose a substantial amount of video quality.
  You get to choose exactly three.
  VC1-Silly, IMO
  AVCHD-very compatible codec, plays most anywhere.
  MPEG2-Won’t play on many computers, but will play in any BD machine.

  3.) What is the best codec to use to create HD DVDs to play on a HD DVD player and does a HD DVD player support AVCHD?
  See above. You do know HD DVD is dead, right? Blu-ray/BD is the only current format. HD DVD died a blessed death shortly after Christmas.

  4.) I’ve been creating the Vegas projects as HD NTSC, is this correct?
  Somewhat…there is no NTSC HD. There is 60i HD, and 24p HD, both are NTSC compatible.
  FWIW, The Full HD covers this in tremendous detail.

  Douglas Spotted Eagle
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  Certified Sony Vegas Trainer
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  Richard Foster

  July 29, 2008 at 5:05 pm

  Thanks for your help. I will try your advise out.

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