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Understanding Blu-ray
I’m never used Blu-ray before but I know it’s for high definition video. I know DVD is for standard definition video.
Here is my question: since my projector is an XGA and has a native resolution of 1024×768, is it possible to burn my 1024×768 video to a Blu-ray disk? It’s too big for a DVD but is it too small for Blu-ray? Essentially, I want to be able to play my video (which is between SD and HD) from a disk and not lose the resolution. Is that even possible? There is nothing for the “in-between” resolutions so I’m trying to come up with a solution. Thank you!
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[Bob Wiley] “Essentially, I want to be able to play my video (which is between SD and HD) from a disk and not lose the resolution. Is that even possible? There is nothing for the “in-between” resolutions so I’m trying to come up with a solution.”
Video standards and computer standards don’t match as you have seen. No there is nothing in between. HD is either 1280×720 or 1920×1080. You would need to either place your 1024×768 video in a 1920×1080 frame and have black bars around all of the edges, or scale the video up to fill the height of 1080. In fact, if you drop your 1024×768 video into a 1920×1080 project in Vegas Pro it will automatically do the scaling for you.
Then render to Blu-ray with Tools | Burn Disc | Blu-ray Disc… assuming you don’t need any menus. Yes, you will loose quality by re-rendering but you don’t have a choice since your original video is not Blu-ray compliant.
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