Blu Ray Authoring in Vegas 8.0 and DVDA 5.0

[John Rofrano]

You author a Blu-ray disc the same way you author a DVD disc in DVD Architect 5.0. Just change your project settings to Blur-ray. In Vegas, render to either one of the Blu-ray templates as MPEG2 or one of the Blu-ray template as AVCHD depending on what your source HD media is. That’s all there is to it.

~jr

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[James Gagnon]

Thanks for the response. When I render through vegas as a blu ray it only does video and not audio. So when I insert the media into DVD Arch it is only video. Obviously I’m doing something wrong which is why I came looking for help.

[Allen Zagel]

Hi James

I’m not working in BlueRay however any time you render for a DVD you need to render twice. Once for the video and the seond time for the audio. they have to be separate files but both with exatly the same name. For example, rendering SD I usualy first render the video to MPEG-2 (mpg) using the DVDA template. Second render for the AC-3 audio. You should have 2 files to bring into DVDA.

Allen

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[James Gagnon]

Thanks for the post. I have been rendering only once and using the DVD NTSC template whichs renders video and audio. So you’re saying I’d be better off to render video and audio separately and then insert both into DVD ARchitect? I usually insert media and select te file…would I just do that twice and the audio and video would come in all in sync?

[Allen Zagel]

Hi again

Yes. From my own personal experience you’re better off doing the DVDA (Mpg – AC3) render in Vegas if your video is less than 90 minutes.

If you’re approaching the 2 hour point then I’d render to AVI in Vegas (1 render) then let DVDA figure it out. There’s a check box in DVDA render that says “fit-to-disc”. Rather than messing arond trying to figure bit-rates.

I did that when I had a 2h 5m video to get onto a DVD and DVDA did a wonderful job figuring it out.

Allen

ASX Media Group, Inc.
http://www.asxvideo.com
NEW DVD – Europe, Trains-n-Trams

[John Rofrano]

> …would I just do that twice and the audio and video would come in all in sync?

Exactly. The reason is so that you don’t render the audio twice. MPEG2 audio is not part of the NTSC DVD spec. So you are taking your audio, encoding it to MPEG2 audio and then DVD Architect is encoding it again to AC3. You will get higher quality audio if you just do the AC3 encode once in Vegas. If you make the names the same and just the extensions are different (mpg/ac3) DVD Architect will automatically pull in the AC3 when you drop the MPG file on it.

~jr

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[James Gagnon]

Wow this is a huge help…thanks alot! I will try to render the video in blu ray video template and then render the audio in AC3…then I’ll try to insert the video file into DVDA

[Hartono Adi]

hi
i’ve read most of the thread about authoring bluray
n ur work flow seems to be the one similar to mine…
hope u can help me.
i’ve tried several times using DA5 but doesn’t work
yes DA 5 doesn’t need to re encode the mpeg2.
but when it finishes the preparing session n start to the burning session
i always got the error message from DA…it is :
“TSwrapper.dll::CTSwrapper::ProcthreadMain::fa iled to read ES file, the ES file maybe shorter than the size described in MUI file”
did i miss something?
my project is 1hour 47minutes 1440×1080 50i HDV (mpeg2HD)
yes the ac3 audio file has been named the same
desperately need help…2 days less sleep did many trial n error ;(
tx for the help

[Chris Newman]

Hartono,

I am having the same problem (Failed to read ES file.) Have you had any luck solving this? Has anyone else had any ideas.

Thanks,
Chris

[Chris Newman]

I solved the problem. By deleting different media from my project, I narrowed it down to an MPEG2 file created with Final Cut Studio that I was attempting to use without rendering. I fixed it by bringing this file into a new Vegas project and rendering a new file. Forcing a re-render in DVD Arch (in “optimize” section after you click “Make Blu-Ray”) might work too.