[Mike Nesbit]

Hey Dave,

It does seem a bit whimsical for them to never bump it up after that long. Maybe understandable a few years ago, but now with everything HD and people using it more and more, they should at least allow a max of 30Mbit.

I did run three tests with burning Blu-Rays. One was burnt with me rendering it as an MP4 (under Sony AVC), but I was still figuring the settings out and didn’t use a Blu template which made Architect render the entire thing over again. Then I did one with Mpeg2 quality at 25Mbit, then just an AVC stream at 20Mbit with the separate audio. I have to say that the 20Mbit avc stream definitely beats Mpeg2. I find the best results it to watch them being played via Blu on a TV, and it was pretty good looking. I would feel comfortable at 25, but as you say, if a 20Mbit AVC looks as good as a 40Mbit Mpeg2 then I guess we should be pretty content.

I do find it annoying that the big editor (Vegas) is limited to 20Mbit while Architect could take the videos and make them up to 40Mbit. Very strange way of doing things.

[Mike Nesbit]

John, thank you again.

Probably a lot of unnecessary work just for a bump to 25, eh? I’ll go out on a limb and say the jump from 20 to 25 probably won’t be an extreme difference besides some better fast motion looks. AVC bit rates on official Blu-Rays vary quite a bit but I tend to see a lot of them around 24-ish. Shame that Sony doesn’t offer just a tad bit more in Vegas just yet.

[Mike Nesbit]

Hey Ken,

I do have a lot of fast motion (a lot of hand held cam work at events). I did another burn using avc stream and then doing the audio. It does look pretty good, I can’t be too negative about it. I just think I’d be more content at 25Mbit, but that’s the obsessive part of me trying to be perfect.

When you say Architect will do them up to 40 (I’d stick to 25 probably), that would mean you would have to create your whole timeline and everything within Architect?

[Mike Nesbit]

Thanks John,

That’s a shame, but hopefully they will allow more adjustment sometime down the road. At least it does look good at 20.