AVCHD to DVD-9

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AVCHD to DVD-9

Posted by John Telan on April 29, 2008 at 2:32 am

I am trying to import some AVCHD footage from my HG10 and render it to a dual layer DVD. So far I have rendered to mpeg2 ntsc widescreen using highest CBR and best setting for rendering but the quality has been dismal on a standard DVD.

I used Nero Vision for one burn, and DVDA for another. The footage is just over an hour in length and my files have been in the 5GB range. Obviously I’m not looking for HD, but I’m looking to get the best quality onto a dual layer dvd. I’m new to Vegas 8 but I can’t see any setting for DVD-9.

Any help would be great, I’ve been looking all over the internet the past couple of days and haven’t had much luck.

John Rofrano replied 17 years, 3 months ago 5 Members · 8 Replies
8 Replies

Mike Kujbida
April 29, 2008 at 2:57 am

…the quality has been dismal on a standard DVD.

Compared to the source footage, yes, it would be.

…I can’t see any setting for DVD-9.

It’s DVD Architect where this option is chosen, not Vegas.
John Telan
April 29, 2008 at 3:02 am

Yeah but I would hope it to be of much higher quality than it is now, considering it’s quite bad… not even close to sd imo.

I know of the setting in DVDA/Vision to burn it to DVD-9, but I can’t figure out how to render it out so it fits. The best of my efforts like mentioned have only netted a 5GB file.

So I guess what I’m asking is how should I render the file to gain advantage of the larger size of a DVD-9 over a standard DVD.

Thanks.
Mike Kujbida
April 29, 2008 at 3:49 am

John, I know from reading various posts on the Sony Vegas forum that some users are rendering to one of the Blu-Ray formats, dropping the raw file(s) onto a single or dual layer DVD (20 & 40 min. respectively) and then playing them back on a PS3 (it’s not just for games!!) to their HD TV set.
The results are supposed to be very good.
John Telan
April 29, 2008 at 10:48 am

I’ll have to look around to see I guess, I tried doing that a couple times and it wouldn’t play.

Thanks.
Douglas Spotted eagle
April 29, 2008 at 1:37 pm

You should be able to go through Tools | Burn Disc | Blu-ray disc template and burn a DVD that will play on PS3 and *most* Blu-ray compatible DVD players.

Douglas Spotted Eagle
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John Telan
April 30, 2008 at 1:19 am

Yeah I got it to work finally on my standalone BD player, that worked great. Now I would like to make a copy on DVD-9 for just standard DVD players for more versatility… is that easily done?

Thanks guys.
Andrew Miller
June 24, 2009 at 10:57 pm

I too would like to know. He never got a reply though so I will ask again. How do you convert the edited AVCHD files etc from Sony Vegas and burn it onto a standard DVD please? I am really struggling as the settings dont work for a DVD, are poor quality or Blu-ray format. Really disappointed. Sony couldnt have made this more user UNfriendly for finalising work onto a DVD 🙁
John Rofrano
June 27, 2009 at 3:21 pm

> He never got a reply though so I will ask again. How do you convert the edited AVCHD files etc from Sony Vegas and burn it onto a standard DVD please?

Render the video using the MainConcept MPEG-2 render type using the DVD Architect NTSC Widescreen video stream template. If you are in a PAL counter use PAL instead of NTSC. Then render the audio using the Dolby Digital AC-3 render type using the Stereo DVD or 5.1 Surround template if your AVCHD camera supports 5.1.

Finally, author your DVD using DVD Architect using the media you just rendered. Vegas does not produce standard DVD’s on it’s own.

~jr

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