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Burning old VHS tapes to Blu ray, need advice
I’ve converted 23 years of family VHS video to digital using a camcorder with AV In / DV Out and captured in Vegas 10. Now I’m editing and burning it all to Blu ray. It’s 4:3 720×480 NTSC from VHS and VHS-C camcorder tapes. I know I’ll have black bars left and right but I want to use BD because of the storage space.
I burned one BD using DVDA and it works fine, there is no distortion. It’s about 2 1/2 hours long with 21 chapters. In Vegas I rendered to mpeg2 16:9 1080 60i @ 25 mbps, I used that because I know it works.
Those settings sound like overkill for SD video. I’d like to fit as much on one disc as possible without a loss of quality.
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I would render from Vegas using the built in Bluray template at 8 Mbps.
With a VHS>DV source, I don’t believe that 25 Mbps is going to give you any better video quality. I have not tried this myself, so I might let one of the guru’s of the forum comment.
Intel i7 920, 12GB RAM, ASUS P6T, Vegas Pro 10 (x32/x64), Windows 7 x64 Ultimate, Vegas Production Assistant 1.0, VASST Ultimate S Pro 4.1, Neat Video Pro 2.6
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Thanks, I’ll give that a try. I have Ultimate S Lite, I’ll try that to render. I haven’t used it for anything but a montage yet.
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Blu-ray supports standard definition so just render using the normal MPEG2 DVD Architect templates and use them on your Blu-ray disc.
~jr
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Thanks John, I tried that using Ultimate S. It worked well and dropped the file size to 8GB for 2 hours of video. I’m burning it now, I’ll report back.
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It worked very well. Thank you both or your help.
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