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[Russ Hurley]

BTW: dont forget 1920×1080 will not play back on a DVD.

You must stick to the DVD spec:

Either 4:3 or 16:9 aspect ratio MPEG-2 video, stored at a resolution of 720×480 (NTSC) or 720×576 (PAL) at 29.97, 25, or 23.976 FPS.

Audio is 16-bits/48 kHz to 24-bits/96 kHz format with monaural to 7.1-channel “Surround Sound” presentation, and/or MPEG-1 Layer 2.

Sony Vegas 9 Pro 🙂

[Joe Willis]

I have heard that from some people but apparently you can. I dont know if it is because I am burning with my Blu Ray burner or what but I put my videos on a DVD and played it on my big screen HD tv and it certainly isnt 720×480.

There is talk all over the net and many people are doing it. I have blank Blu Ray disks but I am trying to avoid using them until I have something that large. Maybe a compilation disk or something.

When I go through the settings before the burn I set it to 1920×1080 24 and it burns away.

Right now I am going to set it explicitly to burn a Blu Ray disk and use a DVD disk and see what happens.

That is the way I did it from the timeline in Vegas and it came out beautiful on the DVD.

I think I know everything….at least thats what everybody tells me.

[Joe Willis]

Ok while I am typing this I have my video in Vegas set rendering to be burnt to a Blu Ray at 1920×1080 in my BD Burner but I am using a DVD disk. It is a very short video. It will easily fit on the disk. I think it is like 700 Mb.

Is there a handy dandy app or something that you know of that will show the resolution of a video you are playing?

Lets see what happens.

I think I know everything….at least thats what everybody tells me.

[Russ Hurley]

The issue concerns some modern DVD players that contain AVCDHD codecs.

These players will, effectivly be blu-ray spec players, but will not play blu-ray discs.

Some blu-ray players will also play HD DVDs. However, this is likely to be confusing you. Chances are that no matter what file you give your dvd software, it will format it for official DVD spec (there is only 1 DVD spec).

It answer to your quesiton, there is a simple way to find out….

1) Put put your newly-pressed DVD into your PC drive.

2) Start up Sony Vegas

3) Import a DVD file into vegas (import media / choose drive / choose VideoTS folder / choose any VOB file

4) Once in Vegas, right click on it and choose properties

5 Here you will see that the file is true DVD (of course!) in atrittubes – 720*576
Simple drop one of the files onto the time line.

Sony Vegas 9 Pro 🙂