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Blue ray – 720p
I’ve been experimenting with up scaling SD footage to HD.
I’ve been fairly successful by setting my project properties at 720p
and rendering out at that same setting. I add a bit of sharpening
and it defiantly looks better.
Most of the video is made up of historical stills so they
become hi-rez by default.
My question is; What is the best way to import to DVDA.
Seems using the Blue ray 1080-60i template is overkill (there is no 720p option) and the render time is looong. Would it work to use the M2t directly into DVDA delete the audio and ad an ac3 track and then burn a disk?
Is there a better solution? Thanks – Gene -
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Off the top of my head, i believe the Blu-Ray spec only supports 1080 at 24p or 60i. i believe 60p is coming. i have found with Vegas/DVD Architect, sticking to the presets saves a lot of grief, as DVD Architect will re-render anything it doesn’t like.
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I think you are correct Chris, I tried this out and DVDA changed the format when compiling the DVD. So I probably should bite the bullet and take the time to render 1080 60i from Vegas rather than having Architect to the conversion.
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Blu-Ray (and DVD-A) supports 720/60p, 720/50p, and 720/24p as well as 1080/60i, 1080/50i, and 1080/24p.
For a 720/60p Blu-Ray, I would export video in AVC at an appropriate bitrate, audio in WAV or AC-3, depending on my needs. If you don’t have a 720/60p Blu-Ray template (I swear they’re in there, but it could I made my own… it’s been some years), edit your 1080/60i template, change the resolution and frame rate, then save as a 720/60p template (actual rate is, of course, 59.94fps).
Then, in DVD-A, fire up the “properties” requester, and mess with stuff. Change “Video format” to AVC, “Resolution” to 1280×720, and “Frame rate” to “59.940 progressive”. Now say “ok”.
The AVC files you created at 720p should drop right in, now, and not show any re-encoding in the “Optimize” chart.
-Dave
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Much obliged Dave.
I will re-visit my authoring attempt
using your info.
Gene
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