Output 1920 x 1080 30p HD to DVD questions

[John Rofrano]

[Dave Petteruto] “I’ve heard a DVD only holds about 25 minutes of HD so I’m not sure how to go about this. “

What do you intend to play this DVD back on? A DVD player? If so, you can’t put HD on it. If you want to create a AVCHD Blu-ray disc on DVD media you can do that but that’s silly. Just buy a Blu-ray burner and make a real Blu-ray disc. Either way you will need a Blu-ray player to watch it.

~jr

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[Dave Petteruto]

Hi John,

Thanks for your response. My problem is that I need to give a DVD to some elderly family members that don’t have Bluray players (and probably never will). So I need to know how to get it onto DVD and keep the quality as best as possible even if it’s not HD.

Thanks
Dave P.

Intel I7 950, 12GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 SE, Vegas Pro 10 (32bit/64bit), Windows 7 Pro 64bit, LG WH10LS30 10X Bluray Burner.

[John Rofrano]

[Dave Petteruto] “My problem is that I need to give a DVD to some elderly family members that don’t have Bluray players (and probably never will). So I need to know how to get it onto DVD and keep the quality as best as possible even if it’s not HD.”

OK, that wasn’t clear from your post.

You want to render the video using MainConcept MPEG2 with the DVD Architect NTSC Widescreen video stream template and then render your audio separately as Dolby Digital AC3 Pro using the Stereo DVD template. Then author your DVD in DVD Architect. If you give the video and audio files the same name, DVD Architect will know that they go together.

~jr

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[Dave Petteruto]

It sounds like everything is the same as doing SD widescreen. Can I edit using the 1920 x 1080 30p HD Vegas project properties or should I use SD widescreen project properties? If possible I’d like to use the 1920 x 1080 30p HD Vegas project properties so I can also output an HD version onto Bluray for myself.

Thanks
Dave P.

Intel I7 950, 12GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 SE, Vegas Pro 10 (32bit/64bit), Windows 7 Pro 64bit, LG WH10LS30 10X Bluray Burner.

[John Rofrano]

[Dave Petteruto] “It sounds like everything is the same as doing SD widescreen.

Exactly. A DVD is always SD.

[Dave Petteruto] “Can I edit using the 1920 x 1080 30p HD Vegas project properties or should I use SD widescreen project properties? If possible I’d like to use the 1920 x 1080 30p HD Vegas project properties so I can also output an HD version onto Bluray for myself.”

Yes, this is what I would do. Edit in HD and then you can deliver both HD and SD as needed.

~jr

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[Dave Petteruto]

One more question if you don’t mind. As I mentioned above this is my first go-around with HD video so please be patient :). For Bluray burning if I use the 1920 x 1080 30p HD Vegas project properties to build my project it looks like I want to use the HD 1080 60i setup for rendering? Is the workflow similar to SD in that I make an AC3 file and a MainConcept mpeg2?
I tried the above and when I bring my AC3 and mpg2 into DVDA (set up as Bluray 29.970 interlaced, AC3 stereo audio format) I get a thumbnail from each file. Each thumbnail seems to have video and audio attached when previewed in DVDA but not when previewed outside of DVDA. Instead of having one thumbnail (after bringing in the AC3 and video file) I have two. When I do this with SD video I only have one thumbnail. I hope I explaned this correctly.

Thanks
Dave P.

Intel I7 950, 12GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 SE, Vegas Pro 10 (32bit/64bit), Windows 7 Pro 64bit, LG WH10LS30 10X Bluray Burner.

[John Rofrano]

[Dave Petteruto] “For Bluray burning if I use the 1920 x 1080 30p HD Vegas project properties to build my project it looks like I want to use the HD 1080 60i setup for rendering?”

Yea, Blu-ray doesn’t support 30p so you need to use 60i.

[Dave Petteruto] “Is the workflow similar to SD in that I make an AC3 file and a MainConcept mpeg2? “

Yes, exactly the same just with a different video template. You can use the same AC3 file for both.

[Dave Petteruto] “Instead of having one thumbnail (after bringing in the AC3 and video file) I have two. When I do this with SD video I only have one thumbnail. I hope I explaned this correctly.”

It sounds like you may have dropped both onto your menu. You only need to drop one and the other will follow. (i.e., just drop the video file and it will have audio by default)

~jr

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[Dave Petteruto]

[John Rofrano] “It sounds like you may have dropped both onto your menu. You only need to drop one and the other will follow. (i.e., just drop the video file and it will have audio by default)”

That was it John–I thought I needed to to drop both, but not so.

Thanks so much for your help John, it is very much appreciated.

Thanks
Dave P.

Intel I7 950, 12GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 SE, Vegas Pro 10 (32bit/64bit), Windows 7 Pro 64bit, LG WH10LS30 10X Bluray Burner.

[John Rofrano]

[Dave Petteruto] “Thanks so much for your help John, it is very much appreciated.”

You’re very welcome. That’s why we’re here. 😉

~jr

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[Dave Petteruto]

John–Well I thought that was my last question 🙂

Can you please tell me how much video run time do you get on a 25gb Bluray disc and what are the preferred brands to use?

Thanks
Dave P.

Intel I7 950, 12GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 SE, Vegas Pro 10 (32bit/64bit), Windows 7 Pro 64bit, LG WH10LS30 10X Bluray Burner.