First Blu-ray….first Blu-ray problems

[Fred Robinson]

I did it the other way around. The only problems were that the menus I’d created in the BluRay project looked a bit rubbish and so did the subtitles. But they still worked. I guess they’d look fine going the other way around because the resolution would be being increased.

[Jim Murphy]

Is there a way to take the DVD version in DVDA and change it to a Blu-ray version without starting from scratch? Jim

Vegas Pro 8 DVDA 5 Excalibur

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[Fred Robinson]

Yes, there must be, because I did the same thing in reverse. I started by creating a new render of the video in Vegas Pro of course, using a standard DVD template. I replaced the Full HD one with this in DVDA. The audio file I left the same. I’m afraid I can’t tell you what I did after that in detail, but I know I changed the media to DVD (instead of BD) etc etc. I just ‘followed my nose’ and it all worked out. I think the choice you make at the very start of the DVDA process is almost meaningless. For example, if you choose ‘single movie’ no menus etc, guess what, you can still do what you like afterwards. Same goes for DVD/BluRay choice…

Sorry I can;t be specific about how I did the reverse of what you want, but I’m confident that the answer is yes, and that it was really easy just by using intuition / common sense.

[Dave Haynie]

Sure… that’s the big win with DVD-A. They have basically built a Blu-Ray authoring model that’s very DVD-like, so you can move from BD to DVD, or DVD to BD, without much trouble.

Obviously, you may need to upgrade assets, and possibly adjust menu elements, depending on how the layout is done.

Basically, you load up your DVD project, call up the File/Properties dialog, and change “Disc Format” from DVD to Blu-Ray disc. You can set other project defaults here at the same time.

If you have DVD-A rendering your MPEG-2 for DVD from HD sources, you may be all set. Usually, though, you’re using more tightly designed DVD-class MPEG-2 files rendering in Vegas. If that’s the case, you can let DVD-A render for you, or add in your Vegas-rendered assets.

I *NEVER* used DVD-A for rendering MPEG-2 for DVDs. But DVD-A does seem to understand 720/60p a bit better than Vegas by default. I don’t know.. I’ve been shooting 720/60p for sports lately, rather than 1080/60i. Could just be a Sony prejudice on built-in formats… they don’t seem to bother with formats other than 1080/60i in most of their cameras either.

-Dave

[Dave Haynie]

Whoops… didn’t intend to double-post (where’s the DEL button?).

[Jim Murphy]

Thanks for posting. Will look into this. May need some more direction later. Thanks, Jim

Vegas Pro 8 DVDA 5 Excalibur

Dell Quad Core 2.67 GHz

[Jim Murphy]

Thanks for your ideas. Jim

Vegas Pro 8 DVDA 5 Excalibur

Dell Quad Core 2.67 GHz

[Jim Murphy]

Very helpful info. Many thanks. That was easy!! Now if I can just solve the “green monster” problem I mentioned in the other post. The last half of the rendered project looks almost totally green. Has that ever happened to you? Do you have any suggestions? Thanks again, Jim

Vegas Pro 8 DVDA 5 Excalibur

Dell Quad Core 2.67 GHz