[Joseph Hannigan]

Thank again John. (I think it was your suggestion originally?) I’ve been struggling with this issue for a few weeks now, and it’s been very frustrating with long-form videos that take hours to render, only to find out it’s a gig or so too large to fit on a BR DVD.

After my previous post, I created an AVC file that at just under 22gig that came in small enough to fit onto a BR DVD. Very nice. No re-compression, either, so it’s all good.

I’m doing this all with Sony Vegas Pro 11, btw.

[Joseph Hannigan]

Thank you, Rick; you may have saved me some time & aggravation as well.

I’ve been following this thread, because I too have run into the same problem with getting a 2 hr & 15 minute HD video to fit onto a BluRay DVD; it’s always just over 25 gigs, and kills/takes up hours (usually overnight) of rendering time, only to find out that I can’t make it fit. Grrrrr!!!!

I didn’t want to cut the Bit rate down so drastically, either…going below 20 or 18mgs scares me, in terms of losing quality.

HOWEVER,it turns out I already have a client that provides VOD for Amazon clients, etc., and they require AVCHD/MP4 formats, which are usually exported at 25-29 mps., but end up being a LOT smaller than m2v files.

I didn’t know Sony DVD Architect could import/handle MP4 files, so that’s interesting.

So, I just tested a different, but equally long AVCHD/MP4 file for making a BR DVDin DVD architect, and it seems to work, albiet with some additional compression warning messages. I’m going to try it and see if it works ok and looks as good.

Hope this works, and thanks in advance!