Blu-Ray Workflow

[Jeff Mcguire]

Jonathan

Depending on your resolution, you will choose the Blu-Ray or HDV template for rendering. On the last tab of the template, make sure video quality is set to Best.

Ofcourse, you need to render audio separately using the Dolby Digital AC3 template.

Jeff

[Jonathan Gentry]

What about the choice to run interlace or progressive? I would assume if I shot in 60i I can keep it interlaced all the way throught the workflow to the DVD. If so I would assume I would want 1080i format (1920x1080i?)

Conversly if I wanted to switch from 60i to 30p or even 24p at what step would it be best to switch to progressive? These are the choices:
1. Initial Capture (to Cineform.)
2. Through the project settings in Vegas.
3. Upon render.
4. When encoding to blu-ray

-Jonathan

[Jonathan Gentry]

Let me also say that an issue I’m having is that I’m trying to keep everything interlaced all the way to the blu-ray disc. I’m exporting from Vegas at 1920×1080 and keeping those settings in the burn process in DVDA. When I view the video using PowerDVD9 on the PC I see black lines running through the footage. The menu looks and functions great.

-Jonathan

[Jeff Mcguire]

I really don’t know about switching to 30p.

But I recently kept interlaced all the way through the burn, downloaded a trial version of Cyberlink powerdvd and it looked beautiful!

I capture with AVCHD, decompress it with UpShift program and use the templates I describe.

Jeff

[John Rofrano]

> I’m exporting from Vegas at 1920×1080 and keeping those settings in the burn process in DVDA.

I thought the Canon’s were HDV cameras? HDV is 1440x1080i PAR 1.3333. I would set my project and all of my renders to match the HDV source.

> When I view the video using PowerDVD9 on the PC I see black lines running through the footage

Is PowerDVD9 deinterlacing the footage properly? The only way to really check quality is to burn a Blu-ray disc and watch it on an HDTV. It doesn’t matter what it looks like on a PC if your final destination is Blu-ray/HDTV.

~jr

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[John Rofrano]

> Conversly if I wanted to switch from 60i to 30p or even 24p at what step would it be best to switch to progressive?

I would switch on initial capture to Cineform. Then keep your entire workflow 24p so that any titles, generated media, transitions, etc. are all done at 24p. This will give you the most accurate editing experience with no surprises.

~jr

http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasst.com

[Jonathan Gentry]

I think the HV20 is 1920×1080 and the A1 is 1440×1080 (from memory.)

The black lines were caused by me not understanding proper workflow. I was rendering to cineform and that didn’t make sense. I’m now rendering from Vegas to mpeg2 and that means I don’t need to recompress in DVDA. Everything is looking good, testing on PS3 now.