Render to Hard Disk and then to Architect

[John Rofrano]

[Danick Sierras] “What settings should I use to render the video so that it has excellent quality. Will it have to re-render the video twice? (Once for Movie Studio and then again for Architect?)”

Press the Make Movie button and follow the prompts. It should give you the option to Burn it to DVD or Blu-ray Disc and then select Blu-ray Disc with Menus. There is nothing else you need to know. Movie Studio will “do the right thing” and then launch DVD Architect for you.

~jr

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[Danick Sierras]

Thanks, but I don’t want to burn it to Blu Ray right away. I have a bunch of videos that I want to edit and render still, plus a few more that I will probably take before the end of the year.

So the question is, which setting should I use that will produce the best quality?

I tried to use the Main Concept MPEG-2 format with the Blu-ray 1920x 1080-60i, 25 Mbps video stream template. Seems to work fine and renders quite fast, but there is no sound in the output video.

When I go into custom settings, and click the audio tab, I see that the “Include audio stream” is not checked. Could this be the problem? Or should I use a different template for what I’m trying to do?

Thanks

[John Rofrano]

So don’t burn the Blu-ray disc. Just create the video and audio streams and leave them on your hard drive for later. If you want to render manually, you need to render the audio separate as Dolby Digital AC-3. You do not want to include the audio with the video because that will not yield the highest quality.

~jr

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[Danick Sierras]

OK – I think I now know what you mean by render the audio separately. So if I understand correctly, this is what I would do:

1) The captured video from my camera is:
HD 1080-60i (1920 x 1080, 29.970 fps)

2) Render the finished video to my hard drive using these settings:
Format: MainConcept MPEG-2
Template: Bluray 1920x 1080-60i, 25 Mbps
This produces just the video portion

3) Render the finished video again just for the sound by selecting “Project – Render as” and using these settings:
Save type as: Dolby Digital AC-3 Studio
Template: Default Template
Description: Audio: 192 kbps, 48,000 Hx, 24 bit, Stereo, AC3

4) Make sure I use the same name for both the video and sound portion

5) Open Architect and add the video portion to my menu and the sound portion will automatically follow.

Please let me know if this is basically what I need to do to get the best movie quality from my camcorder and / or if I missed or need to improve a step.

Thanks

[John Rofrano]

[Danick Sierras] “Please let me know if this is basically what I need to do to get the best movie quality from my camcorder and / or if I missed or need to improve a step.”

You got it. And what I was trying to say is that using the Make Movie button will do this for you in one step instead of two but you can certainly do it manually if you want.

~jr

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[Danick Sierras]

[John Rofrano] “You got it. And what I was trying to say is that using the Make Movie button will do this for you in one step instead of two but you can certainly do it manually if you want.”

Thanks very much for your help.
Happy holidays!

[Danick Sierras]

OK I followed the settings above, but when I try to make the Blu Ray in DVD Architect Studio, I get a message that my Audio track will be re compressed.

I thought that using Dolby Digital AC-3 Studio with Audio: 192 kbps, 48,000 Hz, 24 bit, Stereo, AC3 would allow Architect to make a Blu Ray without re compression.

And when I checked the Sony web site, it states that it would be compliant

See Avoiding re compression in DVD Architect
https://www.custcenter.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/84/kw/architect

So why is my version of DVD Architect Studio wanting to re compress?

[John Rofrano]

[Danick Sierras] ” when I try to make the Blu Ray in DVD Architect Studio, I get a message that my Audio track will be re compressed. “

Are you sure it’s your program audio and not just the audio that you added to the menus? Also, does your version of DVD Architect Studio support AC3? (some earlier versions did not)

~jr

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[Danick Sierras]

[John Rofrano] “Are you sure it’s your program audio and not just the audio that you added to the menus?)”

I did a test with a video that had no menus, just audio and it did the same thing.

[John Rofrano] “Also, does your version of DVD Architect Studio support AC3? (some earlier versions did not)”

I just bought this version. Vegas Movie Studio HD 11 Platinum (build 283) which came with DVD Architect Studio Version 5 (build 157).

Note that this is the Studio version – NOT the Pro version.

The reason that I have to use the two steps in creating a video file and then an audio file, is because if I click on the “Make Movie” in Vegas Movie Studio, and then select the “Blu-Ray Disc with Menus”, the program selects a .w64 audio format that I can not change.

I am now coming to the conclusion that DVD Architect STUDIO is not able to render an AC-3 audio file when creating a Blu-ray disc. Maybe this is just for the pro version.

However, there is no mention that AC-3 should be used for DVD authoring only.

See Avoiding re compression in DVD Architect
https://www.custcenter.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/84/kw/architect

I would like to know if anyone who has DVD Architect STUDIO able to create Blu-ray movies with AC-3 audio without having to re compress the audio.

[Jorma Nippala]

This is from DVD A Studio 5.0 build 128. I believe build 157 is the same. PCM audio only with Blu-ray.

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/50473571/DVDAS5.0_128.jpg