[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?

[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]

Well after numerous attempts to reconnect the files, I finally gave up and just re-created the project.

Still don’t know what happened, or how those files got all messed up.
But just wanted to close this issue in case someone may have started to look into this post.

Hope it doesn’t happen again…

[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

[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