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DVD Architect 5 BluRay Blus
I can create a BluRay disk based on a 1080p 25fps wedding video lasting around 30 minutes provided that I do so directly from the Vegas timeline. If I try to create a menu-based disk in DVD Architect 5 things begin to go wrong.
Black frames begin a few minutes in to the recording: the audio continues but the video is nonexistent. The video begins again some ten minutes later.
The DVD Architect preview timeline SOMETIMES shows the fault and sometimes does not. The whole video plays within Vegas. Even where the preview runs with no error, frustratingly, the actual disk is ruined,- and disks are expensive.
I have been through the vale of tears that is “buffer underflow”, I have forced a re-rendering to deal with this.. I am rapidly coming to the conclusion that there are serious incompatibilities between DVD architect and Vegas.. unless someone wants to tell me that I’ve got it all wrong and that producing a menu-based bluray disk is a walk in the park?
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Are you rendering out of Vegas using one of the MPEG2 or AVCHD Blu-ray templates or are you expecting DVD Architect to do the re-encoding for you? I would try rendering from Vegas and then dropping into a Blu-ray project in DVD Architect. This is how I make ’em and they play fine (albeit in NTSC land)
~jr
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Hi John:
I’m rendering using the =AVCHD 1920×1080-50i template,- but when I try to use this within Architect with no re-compressing I get the buffer underflow error.. this forces me to recompress it.. and up pops the error. I’m wondering whether there could be some corruption somewhere given that the error is always triggered at the same point in the film..
Dave E
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If the buffer underflow is happening when you are burning the disc, then try burning the .iso file with another burning program. Maybe it’s an incompatibility between DVD Architect and your Blu-ray burner?
~jr
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Hi John,
I have found other users who are getting buffer underflow messages when they try to create a menu-based BluRay disk from Architect although they, like me, are able to create a menu-less single file disk from within Vegas.
I have myself had the issue on two radically different computer systems.
It looks to me as though there is a fairly heavyweight bug in this aspect of Architect.
Have you managed to create a menu-based BluRay disk?
Dave E
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> Have you managed to create a menu-based BluRay disk?
Yes, I’ve created them and I haven’t had any problems. First DVD Architect makes an ISO file and then it burns it. You could always use another program to burn the ISO file once it’s made. I do have a very old 2x Pioneer Blu-ray burner which cost me $600 two years ago. Maybe try burning at a slower speed?
~jr
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I’ve spent more time on this problem. It is not a problem with burning a BluRay disk,- I never get to do that! I get this error:
Status: TSWrapper.dll::CTSWrapper::ProcThreadMain::Video buffer underflows. –
relating to a file STREAM/00002.m2ts – every time I try to prepare a compilation. If I recompress the video and experiment with the bitrate as Sony recommend the problem just happens hours later.
Interestingly I AM able to compile a usable, menu-driven BluRay using the same files with a demo version of Corel’s DVD Moviemaker 7..
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> relating to a file STREAM/00002.m2ts
OK, I have never made an AVCHD Blu-ray disc with a menu. (sorry I just caught that when I saw the filetype). Just as a test, render to MPEG2 HDV Blu-ray format (this is what I use because my Sony Z1U shoots HDV). This will create an .m2v file. I’ve had no problems with these.
~jr
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Thanks very much John: I hadn’t thought to try that and it WORKS!
I’m not sure whether I’m losing anything by using .m2v files but it doesn’t look like it and I’m very grateful to you for bringing weeks of frustration to an end.
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I have the same issue!!
But i don’t want to make MPEG2 blu-ray if possible.
I think that AVC blu-ray is sharper and better then MPEG2.
And offcourse the smart render is great with AVCHD. Less time to make an video stream.Still there is no fix/solution for make an AVC Disc??
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Sorry, Jay.. I didn’t respond to your question. I wasn’t able to create an image file,- the buffer underflow prevented it. I have now burnt a disk using MPEG 2 instead [see below].
The down side to Corel’s app. appears to be that there is no way of creating your own templates / backgrounds for the BluRay menus,- unless I’ve missed something you’re bound to use the supplied ones?
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