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cost of BD-R disks mandate AVCHD in Greece
i have read many posts here about the cost of BD-R disks is now down to 1,30 dollars each making it silly to go the AVCHD route for burning.
However i want to add that it may only be the case for the USA.
For the past 5 years i have been living in Greece and the rise of the BluRay happened while i was out of the USA.
Just want to ask for details for a good Sony Vegas HD (1920×1080) to DVD (50min of HD) solution as BD-R disks cost over 10 dollars each and are next to impossible to find. Especially in rural greece.
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Sony Vegas won’t directly burn an AVCHD disc. DVD Architect will create a Blu-ray compilation for use on DVD, but it will not create a proper AVCHD format — there are small but important differences. And the main reason for caring about this is that most Blu-ray players will play AVCHD discs, only a few will play “Blu-ray on DVD”.
What you want to do is create a high quality AVC rendering, up to 18Mb/s bitrate. Audio should be rendered in AC-3. Download the free “MultiAVCHD” application, and use this to create the final AVCHD file structure. Then burn this on a DVD using the UDF 2.5 or 2.6 file system, and you have made yourself an AVCHD DVD. These can be DVD5 or DVD9 by the way.. the results for shorter videos won’t be quite as good as full Blu-ray, but given the quality of most camcorders, pretty close.. and certainly much better than scaling down to DVD-Video.
-Dave
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thanks for the info Dave.
however reading that there might be incompatibilities, i have decided to buy a few BD-Rs at the cost of 10 dollars each! Hope I dont get any coasters.
Man, its like reliving the SVCD vs DVD days, when DVDs were too expensive (and we would make Divx CDs). I am still waiting for these things (bluray disks) to drop in all cities in the world. -
Yeah, I did the whole series of things. I made SVCDs and, after about a week of that, Super SVCDs (my early Pioneer DVD player handled pretty much anything you could throw at it), before I could afford a DVD drive and media.
Before Blu-ray, I had a red-laser DVD player that did either DivX-HD or WMV/HD discs. However, it auto-recognized the WMV/HD disc, and supported hybrid WMV/HD and DVD discs (it would actually pop up with a menu, asking which one you wanted to play).
A WMV/HD disc was authored in Windows Media 9 and Window Audio, which is no problem. However, the menus and all were done in HTML and JavaScript… and there was no authoring tool available. And the docs were sketchy. So I did a bunch of these, but didn’t get too crazy with the user interface.
By comparison to any of these, AVCHD is well supported. Probably not 100% across Blu-ray players, but then again, neither are BD-Rs. You will find some Blu-ray players that refuse to play BD-R/BDMV discs. AVCHD has very good support because it’s a camcorder format, and of course, because many of the major BD brands are made by camcorder companies (Sony, Panasonic). Well, or the Chinese, who usually try to support whatever format pirates^H^H^H^H^H^H individual are likely to want for their own use (yeah, Chinese piracy is a big problem).
You can find a list here: https://www.videohelp.com/dvdplayers?DVDname=&Submit=Search&Search=Search&bd=1&orderby=Name&hits=50. Unfortunately, many of the players listed haven’t been tested with BD-R media, and they’re not yet testing AVCHD-on-DVD compatibility yet. Nothing wrong with BD-R if you need the space… I have done a number of long videos (weddings, plays) on BD, with great success. But I don’t have a worry about AVCHD for smaller things… short videos, high definition music discs (I do legal downloads of better-than-CD quality music from HD Tracks, and put this on AVCHD discs at 96/24 or 192/24).
-Dave
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