Best output for Blu-Ray Disk

[John Rofrano]

[Dariusz Stochmal] “When I create video in Vegas what is the best rendered output (file type) so when I use it with DVD Architect to create Blu-Ray Disk there is no re-encoding?”

You can use any of the Blu-ray … templates under MainConcept MPEG2 or Sony AVC and they will not get re-encoded. I like to stick with the same format as the source that I shoot. So when I shoot HDV I use the MPEG2 templates, and when I shoot AVCHD I use the AVC templates.

~jr

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[Rick Kowalski]

So, if I shoot 1080/60p with my Panasonic TM700K, would I need to bring the footage in as AVCHD first rather than edit the 1080/60p footage? When I add titles & transitions, doesn’t it still need to render the output video? Or does it just render the transitions & titles portions? As you can tell, I’m a newbie to HD editing.

Rick

[Dave Haynie]

You will re-render.

Firstly, Vegas doesn’t currently do AVC smart rendering. And in Vegas 10, Smart Rendering seems a bit broken anyway… this will hopefully be fixed. Extending to AVC would be better, still, but at present, Sony doesn’t including an AVC CODEC with support for over 20Mb/s… less than many people shoot, certainly less than the 1080/60p rates most so-capable cameras shoot.

Then there’s Blu-Ray. 1080/60p is not a supported Blu-Ray format. If you want to make a Blu-Ray compliant disc (or AVCHD, for that matter), you need to rendering to either 720/60p or 1080/60i.

There is no problem editing in 1080/60p, other than the fast that’s crazy slow on most systems.

-Dave