How does a DVD with ACVHD compare to a Blu Ray

[John Rofrano]

> Would there be an improvement in quality if I used a Blu Ray burner?

No, you just get more capacity. Burning is essentially just a file transfer of the data. The quality would be the same.

~jr

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[Danny Hays]

So I can burn blu Ray rendered files to a regular DVD and play it on a Blu Ray player? I didn’t know this. Thanks John. Danny Hays

[John Rofrano]

Yes, you are just limited to the capacity of the disc which is about 20 minutes. The physical DVD media was never meant to play back such high bitrate files so it is unknown if over time the disc will become unreliable but they do seem to play fine.

~jr

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[Greg Barringer]

[Terry Esslinger]

Lets ee if I have this straight: I can take HDV video from my F1 and render it using one of the BluRay templates (don’t know which one except that it probably should be NTSC) Then burn it to a standard DVD-R (not a bluRay disc) using a BluRay burner (not a standard burner)and it should play on a BluRay player (ie PS3)But I am limited to about 20 minutes and there is some question of longevity.? What program do you burn it with?
Thanks

[John Rofrano]

Terry, It’s even better than that. You don’t need a Blu-ray burner at all. Just a Blu-ray player / PS3. You can use your regular DVD burner to burn a 20 minute Blu-ray image onto a standard DVD media disc. You do this right from within Vegas from the timeline with:

Tools | Burn Disc | Blu-ray Disc…

~jr

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[Greg Barringer]

Thanks for all the comments, the slideshow is a better quality than I ever expected.

I burned Blu Ray to a standard DVD directly from Vegas like John said. I played it in a Sony BDP-S550.

[Terry Esslinger]

John,
Just a little bit more on this please. You don’t even have to render the time line to anything.? I assume tha time line needs to be m2t or native HDV. What if you have made editing changes (transitions, color correcting etc). Thanks for your time.

[Greg Barringer]

Rendering and burning will all be completed. Choose 1920×1080 60i and leave the rest a default.

[Terry Esslinger]

Thanks,
I’ll give it a try as soon as I get a chance.