Create a DVD from a Bluray Project?

[Matt Geier]

Hi Chris,

Standard DVD players read the .Vob format, what is the format you’re laying out with now? (AVI or MPEG etc?)

I would recommend you download ConvertXtoDVD. Ive been using it for over a year now. It’s the easiest way to put videos into DVD format for me!

It will convert your video files to the DVD format readable by all standard DVD players, then burn automatically to DVD!

It is easy to use…give it a try.

1. Download ConvertXtoDVD here:
https://www.burner-software.com/AVI-to-DV…

It can convert any video file.. like wmv, mpeg, asf, mp4, avi to DVD…
Add or drag-n-drop as many video files as the DVD can handle…
You’ll just need to insert a blank DVD..
Then click “Convert”..
Sit back and let yourself and your clients enjoy watching those video files on their home DVD player! =)

ConvertXtoDVD has a lot of extra nice features as well…

Maybe that will help.
I’m happy to help further if I can.

What do you use for Asset Management Software?
What’s your hardware / network / shared storage setup consist of?

Let us know!

Matt Geier

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[Thayalan Paramasawam]

Hi……good morning

Yes SVP can…….

You can pulldown from 1920×1080 to 720×576 then use DVDA to burn Dvds

Send your project details,i will guide you

Thank you
Thayalan Paramasawam

[Stephen Mann]

Why are you telling the OP to downconvert? That is a guaranteed loss of quality, notwithstanding the marketing claims of “no data loss”. When you recompress already compressed video, you will lose some quality.

The correct process is simply to encode the same project into the MPEG and AC3 files needed by DVDA.

Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
http://www.mmdv.com

[Thayalan Paramasawam]

Thats right sir (Stephen Man).I am always pulldown from 1920×1080 to dvd resolution if customer reguest dvd.

[Chris Evans]

OK, my BluRay project in SVP was rendered as MainConcept MPEG2 1920×1080-50i, 25 Mbps template and AC-3 Pro 5.1 audio.

So, for best results, I take it I render the project again specifically for DVD? If so, what templates am I best using?

Its a 1920×1080 project at 25fps with 5.1 audio.

Thanks again all.

[Dave Haynie]

You can take the DVD Architect project, change the project type to DVD, save it separately of course, and produce a DVD. Maybe.

Sometimes graphical elements won’t line up perfectly, depending on the complexity of your Blu-ray. You may be doing things that don’t really map to DVD, despite the fact that DVDA is basically modeling Blu-ray as an High Def DVD (eg, it’s not doing many Blu-ray specifics).

There’s an awfully good chance that’s all you need. Sure, the Blu-ray project video will have been compressed once from your originals to Blu-ray, and you’re recompressing to DVD in DVDA. But Blu-ray video contains about 6x as much useful information as DVD, so DVD video rendered this way will look pretty good.

It will definitely get better if you re-render video from Vegas for the project… same thing you had before, but rendered to DVD’s MPEG-2 format. The real win here is less avoiding the extra compression step, and more that Vegas gives you much more control over MPEG rendering than you can get in DVDA. For example, for any longer project, you want VBR MPEG-2, which you can’t get in DVDA (last time I checked, anyway).

Same goes with audio… if your DVDA project is using audio rendered at Blu-ray resolutions, it would have to be recompressed for DVD. If it’s the same old, same old 192kb/s or 448kb/s AC-3, it’s already in DVD format.

-Dave

[Stephen Mann]

Use the DVDA Widescreen template.

Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
http://www.mmdv.com

[John Rofrano]

Change the DVD Architect project from Blu-ray to DVD Widescreen and Burn to DVD. That’s all you really ned to do.

~jr

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

[Thayalan Paramasawam]

Good Morning Sir,(Mr.John Rofrano)

So the mpeg file 1920×1080 can be authoring in DVDA for dvd 720×576?Right…….

Thank you
Thayalan Paramasawam

[John Rofrano]

Yes, change you DVD Architect project to PAL DVD Widescreen.

~jr

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