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Blu-ray – major rendering times even with fast PC
Hi,
I am hoping you can give your experience or advice on this since I think I am having major issues with time in creating blu-ray.
I have a new PC (Win7 Home 64bit/6Core/8Gb ram + Pioneer Blyu-ray writer). I am using Sony Vegas 10 (32bit version though) and DVD Architect Pro 5.0
I have created a Project in Vegas from miniDV (filmed in 1080i – HD – Sony Camcorder). The resulting project rendered within an hour and finished as a 3hr video footage – M2T file around 36Gb in size.
1) I am assuming that since the original raw footage taken off miniDV was M2T clips. With the correct project settings, the finished render also being a M2T clip means that there is no real quality loss in the footage?
2) I then put the footage into DVD Architect to prepare and burn onto a 25GB Blu-ray disc (obviously, some decompression is required here). Its been 9 hours now…”Making Disc” is on 26% and “Rendering Progress” is on 78%. Is this how long it really takes???
I am now thinking that maybe it would be quicker to just burn the resulting M2T file straight onto Blu-ray as a standard file since my TV Blu-ray player can play these native files. Only thing is then I dont get chapters/menus etc. Thus I’ll need a 50GB disc.
What are your thoughts on this? What does everyone do with their HD footage nowadays? Archive to hard discs instead?
Appreciate your thoughts and advice on this.
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Just a further update.
That same M2T (HDV 1080I – 50-PAL) 3 hour footage (35GB) file in DVD Architect. This time I chose to prepare DVD instead of Blu-ray.
The optimize to disc meant quality rate went from 8000 to around 4600. Time take to prepare disc: 15 hrs and 10min
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