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AVCHD to DVD with Vegas
I would just like to share some information about my experience trying to create a DVD from High Definition AVCHD files.
I use a Panasonic HDC-HS900 video camera,
I produce Video in 1080i AVCHD format.
I use Sony Vegas to create Blu-ray discs.
Al this works well with Sony Vegas,
However I found it necessary to make a few DVD disc with these files as some friend who wanted copies of my movies only have DVD players.I tried loading the AVCHD files into Vegas as normal then after editing I would render the project in PAL DVD format.
This always ended up with a final file that was unstable and “jittery”
I tried several different formats both for the project properties and for the final render, they all resulted in jittery poor quality video,I finally found that if i render the AVCHD files as high definition blu ray 1920×1080 then use DVD Architect to render them into DVD files the resulting files were fine,
I hope this information helps someone out there and if anyone has had similar experience let me know OK
Pete
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2 Replies
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For best results, render your HD Vegas project to MPEG2 format and use one of the DVD Architect Video Stream presets (probably PAL widescreen in your case). Then render the project again as Dolby AC3 and give the output file the same name (except for extension) as the video render.
You can then drop those 2 files (MPG and AC3) onto a DVD Architect project and produce a DVD without any intermediate re-compression.
Using the Blu-ray renders in DVD Architect is convenient and probably fine for your videos, but it will force DVD Architect to convert the video and audio to DVD format and that will incur a small loss of quality. You also have more control over the encoding parameters if you use Vegas to produce the MPEG2 file.
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Many thanks for your tips Matt.
I will try it out on my new project
Pete
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