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SD to Blu-ray
Ok, I have some dv 720×480 that I would like to put on Blu-ray, as opposed to DVD, because I want to be able to put as much video as I can per disc. I am using Vegas Pro 9 and DVD Architect 5.
1. I still need to seperate each video stream to different videos. What resolution should I use to render to from Vegas, keeping in mind that they will be put into DVDA and authored to Blu-Ray?
2. What setting do I need to use for DVDA? The default is 1080i.
I have done some testing, and strangely enough, the best results that I have gotten have been to render from Vegas to 720p, and then use the 1080i template in DVDA. This looked better than rendering to both 1080i and 720×480 in Vegas and then using 1080i in DVDA.
Please help. How would you go about this? Thanks!
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2 Replies
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Not sure but you may be able to make a regular DVD on the blueray disc and take advamtage of the disc size. Let me know, danny
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Thanks Danny, I ended up doing just that!
I rendered out of Vegas as 720×480 mainconcept mpeg2 NTSC template into individual files (I am editing and authoring old 8mm/VHS/VHS-C home movies). This does not trigger a video re-encode or re-render in DVDA. I then created a blu-ray project in DVDA, changing the project properties’ aspect ratio to 4:3 and the resolution to 720×480. I left the format to mpeg2 and the bit rate to 18Mbps. The Audio I changed to pcm 48,000, but DVDA does re-compress this from the original Vegas file (only takes a second).
The quality is about what I would expect from 8mm home movies on an HDTV, which is acceptable. I am able to fit quite a few on each disc, which is one goal that I had. The project also burns very quickly. Thanks again for your help. I did look into Multi-AVCHD, but in the end DVDA did what I needed.
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