Rendering AVCHD to dvd

[John Rofrano]

[Aleksandar Acimovic] “I use dvd architect studio to burn on dvd. Do you have any better solution ?”

DVD Architect Studio is the perfect tool for the job. Why do you need anything else?

[Aleksandar Acimovic] “What render configuration i need to put/use ???”

You have a choice. You can render to AVCHD and drop those into DVD Architect Studio and it will figure out what bit rate it needs to use to convert it to MPEG2 for DVD. Or you can use a Bitrate Calculator and figure out what bit rate to use to fit 2 hrs of video on a single sided DVD and then modify the MPEG2 DVD Architect template to use that bit rate and render a DVD compliant MPEG2 file from Movie Studio and use it in DVD Architect Studio. It’s obviously much easier to do it the first way.

BTW for rendering 02:06:00 on DVD you should use an Average Bit rate of 4611Kbps.

~jr

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[Aleksandar Acimovic]

Ok i will look into it, i will try again, i can always rerender in architect studio but i don’t want to do that, its waste of time and video will mess up..will it ?

[John Rofrano]

[Aleksandar Acimovic] ” i can always rerender in architect studio but i don’t want to do that, its waste of time and video will mess up..will it ?”

Letting DVD Architect Studio render the video will obviously take more time in DVD Architect Studio, but no more time than it would take in Movie Studio to do the same render. The resulting video should be the same quality either way.

If you are combining two separate videos into one long one, that would need to be done in Movie Studio because DVD Architect Studio would keep them separate.

~jr

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[Aleksandar Acimovic]

Yes i see. I use vegas because my camera records, umm creates like chapetrs, a lot of files, video files, so the only way is to put them all in vegas then cut 2 hrs slices and render 2hrs. Because my firm has deal when recording we put 2hrs on dvd, no more, no less.

[John Rofrano]

Yes you should absolutely be combining all of your camera footage in Movie Studio cutting out the bits you don’t want and keeping the rest. You can then render the whole thing to a single HD file and let DVD Architect convert it to SD MPEG2 or you can render it to SD MPEG2. It’s up to you.

Sony makes this very easy by using the Make Movie button in Movie Studio. If you can use the Make Movie button then forget about the bit rate calculator. I thought you needed to place two completely separate projects onto the same DVD.

~jr

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[Aleksandar Acimovic]

Here is the thing, i am working as camerman on weddings, partys and things like that. Here in my place i have to record like 8 10 12 hrs in one day. Before i was recording video from camera to dvd via dvd recorder. In real time.

I want to improve that, to use my computer (one has i7 other is i5 cpu)
to finish job faster.

So i wrote before we put 2hrs on dvd via dvd recorder. I want to do the same thing with computer. Just i had problems, i did so many projects, i was using original, default mpeg2 render from vegas. I changed bitrate, and my rendering will take around 55 minutes (previus projects took around 90 minutes to render).

in about 30 minutes my rendering will be finished, so i will see how am i standing…

[Aleksandar Acimovic]

ok finished, and i got 4.72 gb and then when i open it in architectit says 5.4gb disk usage, so i dont realy understand how do do this, again failure

and MY SOURCE FILES ARE 4.2 GB … so why does vegas make them larger, i dont understand …

[Stephen Mann]

Ignore that warning. DVDA is notoriously conservative with disk usage. I “prepare” all of my projects to a subdirectory of the project folder named… drum roll,,, “DVD”. When DVDA “prepares” the disc it generates the VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS folders. If my “DVD” folder is less than 4.3Gb according to Windows Explorer, it will fit on the DVD irrespective of the warning from DVDA.

You mentioned that “I use vegas because my camera records, umm creates like chapetrs, a lot of files, video files, so the only way is to put them all in vegas then cut 2 hrs slices and render 2hrs.”

You don’t say what camera, but I’ll bet that you are recording to a memory card and all those files from the camera are 2Gb. You should have received with the camera a program that collects those files into a single video file ready for editing.

Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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[Aleksandar Acimovic]

On architect, when it shows me that message, then it tells me i have to rerender project all over again, to fit it on dvd.

About camera, it contains two sd card slots and one of them also reads pro duo cards and yes those files are around 2 gb.

I got Content management utility program. I didnt see how to use it, i thought its only opening media files which are stored on memory card.

[Miguel Almanza]

Hello, Aleksander.

Have you tried the “fit to disc” option in the Optimize Disc option of the “Make DVD” process?

I sometimes use it, depending on how much space I need.

I have a Quinceañera I am currently editing that renders into 1h36m40s at 6.5 Gb, but if I use the “fit to disc” process and the bit rate goes down to 6.05 from 9.397mbps to fit as a 4.5 Gb file. I use this to put the file as a single-movie DVD to check for edits on a big screen. Else, I will have to cut out a lot more footage. Quinceañeras take forever to edit!

I have not been able to fit more than around 1:20 worth of 720×480 video on a 4.7Gb DVD before, so I’m going to keep an eye on this thread because I noticed the experts are answering things I might use.