[Douglas Spotted eagle]

It’s not an Architect issue.
Either:
A-buy a different burner/player that is both – and + compatible
B-buy a stack of +R

Since he’s your client, that’s about all you can do to assure compatibility.

Architect doesn’t burn data discs, although Roxio can. You’re comparing apples to oranges. Data discs don’t have to meet a replication spec, DVDs do, hence the differences.
HTH

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[Douglas Spotted eagle]

BIG RAID is first step. Second step is clean machine.
You’ll use the Sony YUV codec, and I’d recommend that you look at the Xena before the BMD. BMD makes a GREAT product, but their drivers are still fidgety, IMO.
RAM is good, but with Windows XP, Vegas can’t access more than 2GB at a time anyway. Can’t tell you about Vista, not running Vista on our SDI machines.

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[Douglas Spotted eagle]

coupla things…you sure your 1394 cable from camera is good? (prolly is, but it’s a place to start)

Resources…look at the hardware system and be certain nothing is sharing resources with the FW card.

Look at a SECOND firewire card to connect the cammera, alongside the first card. See if that helps.

Sounds like there is a resource problem more than anything.

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[Douglas Spotted eagle]

Somewhat. The contents of the nested veg remain independent of the properties of the timeline in which the veg has been dropped. For example, if you drop 24p timelines into a 60i timeline, it will continue to be 24p, but now pulldown will be added.
You can affect/effect any nested veg just like video. Think of a nested veg file like a rendered or captured video file, it may help. You can split, add FX, pan/crop, Track Motion, composite any nested veg just exactly like a video file. But…like a video file, the veg will be converted to the project properties of the host project, should there be any mismatch.

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[Douglas Spotted eagle]

I’m shooting at Lake Elsinore, and yes…skydiving. Wingsuit world record qualifier camp, actually…

Both of these cams suck for low light. I have the HD1000U, and while it’s a GREAT camera for the price…low light isn’t it’s strong point. The Panny is even worse.
AVCHD doesn’t do well in low light. It’s more greatly compressed, so if you feed it less information…it falls short of any reasonable expectation, IMO.
If you can…budget up and look at either the EX1, which is TERRIFIC in low light, or look at a Z1…it’s quite good in low light.

FWIW, i’m shooting the palm version of the 1000U on the ground, and AVCHD in the air for this event. Lotsa light though, and high shutter speeds make for great vid.

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[Douglas Spotted eagle]

Is pass-thru enabled on the deck?

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[Douglas Spotted eagle]

The Panasonic is a very nice camera. I’d recommend it over the Sony HD1000 as well. But for very different reasons.
The concept of 3 .25 chips vs a single CMOS is absurd, IMO.
HDV will hold up better than AVCHD in high motion sports, but you have to know exactly how to manage HDV in high motion as well.
We do this sort of thing quite regularly, and if you’re not careful, shoot too wide, shoot too slow…expect problems. Fast shutter speeds are your friend. The tighter the shot, the more your friend it will be. Avoid low lighting.

Coincidentally, I’m shooting a high action sports event this weekend in Lake Elsinore, if this damn rain would stop!

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[Douglas Spotted eagle]

HD or HDV project properties
Edit project
Tools | Burn Disc | Blu-ray disc
Choose the Sony AVCHD template for 1440 x 1080.
Select Render and Burn at top of dialog
Hit “OK”

That’s it.
We don’t have a Panasonic BD player, but do have both Sony and Samsung players, discs play correctly in those. If the Panny doesn’t have updated firmware, it won’t play…

Douglas Spotted Eagle
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[Douglas Spotted eagle]

I’m confused by “straight from camera.”
If I’m straight, you’re:
~downconverting from the camera either via firewire or component output
~plugging that into a set top DVD burner
~burning a real-time output from the camera to a DVD

If this is the case, I’d expect problems. You’re also losing a tremendous amount of quality by working this way.

Why are you not rendering to MPEG2 SD in Vegas, and outputting either from the Tools option, or using DVD Architect?

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[Douglas Spotted eagle]

Set smoothness to 0 in the Pan/Crop dialog. Vegas 8 does this by default.

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