BluRay Render – Failed Attempts

[John Rofrano]

[Farhan Ali] “Resolution:- 1920×1080
Frame Rate:- 25 FPS “
[Farhan Ali] “When it came to Project Properties I used the pre-set:- HD 1080-60i (1920 x 1080, 29.970 fps)”
[Farhan Ali] “MainConcept MPEG-2 > Blu-Ray 1920×1080-50i, 25 Mbps video stream.”

This makes no sense. If you are delivering 25fps and your camera footage is 25 fps it doesn’t mater that you have other video at 29.97, you should be setting your project to HD 1080-50i (1920 x 1080, 25.000 fps). This has nothing to do with your problem. I just happened to notice that it was sub-optimal because you are making edit decisions based on 29.97fps timing and then changing them to 25 fps when you render.

[Farhan Ali] “After my finla project was complete the next step was to render. For the past 3 days I’ve encountered one major problem, sony vegas seems to “stop” rendering my project, instead a blank display is shown on the “preview” monitor. “

What changed 3 days ago? Maybe you added a piece of media that was different? Did your system get updated? Do you have a backup from before 3 days ago that you could restore? Bottom-line is that something changed and only you can figure that out. Things don’t stop working without a reason. Think about what might have changed 3 days ago to cause this.

In the mean time, see if you can render in sections. If some smaller sections render and one doesn’t, that’s a clue that a piece of media in that section may be the cause.

~jr

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[Steve Rhoden]

Could be a corrupt/bad bit of video you have there on the timeline.
Watch the preview window while rendering and try to identify the exact
event the render fails and try replacing it and see.

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[Farhan Ali]

Hello thanks for your responses, oh no! Please don’t say there might be a corrupt media file, it’s been months in the making and would be a disaster if there was something wrong with any of the parts. I will each section and report back.

Also, in regards to the quality would you agree my project settings have been set to the highest quality possible?

Thanks

[Farhan Ali]

After testing our numerous settings I found out the problem was coming from the “Render” project itself.
For some reason I can’t render using:- Blu-Ray 1920×1080-50i, 25 Mbps video stream

Whereas if I was to render using:- MainConcept AVC/AAC no problems are encountered.

I managed to find the part where I initially thought the problem was coming from. So I tried different render setting, MainConcept and the problem no longer occurs.

Does that mean I cannot render using Blu-Ray settings?

( cry )

Update 1:- I read on another thread I can render using Blu-Ray using the template:- Sony AVC/MVC.
I will be using Blu-Ray 1920×1080-60i, 16 Mbps video stream.

Update 2:- Using the above render setting:- Blu-Ray 1920×1080-60i, 16 Mbps video stream
Doesn’t cause any problems.
Can some please confirm if this would be the best setting to use for my Blu-ray project.

[Geoff Candy]

Video recorded at 1920×1080 25fps. It matters not whether i or P as the bluray standard is ‘i’.
However; set your timeline to match your ‘footage’.

So why render render render at 60i?

Simply use the standard Mainconcept (AVC or MPEG2) 1920×1080 50i video stream templates.

Don’t forget to render .ac3 audio using Pro not studio.

[Farhan Ali]

Hello, I tried rendering using AVC but the final video file doesn’t seem to open with any media players.
Is this normal?

[Farhan Ali]

So after countless hours I finally managed to render my project. But there seems to be another issue, one some parts of the video, quality seems to “lack” it no longer stays at 1080p, in fact majority of the parts don’t seem to be 1080p quality.

What has gone wrong? Perhaps I used the wrong render settings?

P.S. I will be using Adobe Encore for BluRay & DvD Authoring, what that be an issue?

[John Rofrano]

[Farhan Ali] “What has gone wrong? Perhaps I used the wrong render settings?”

Did you change your project to 50i? If your footage is 50i and you are rendering to 50i your project should also be 50i.

~jr

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