[Rick Hughes]

RE discs arrived today ……….. wanted to check before I commit to disc … due to time to burn.

So when TV’s quote 1080p ….. how does 25i Blu-ray become progressive ? ……. or is that just something hardware takes care of.

[Rick Hughes]

John .. been following this advice … and used the MainConcept 1920×1080, 50i template … but maybe I did not use it correctly.

If I try to render this with frame rate at default (50) it fails with ‘an error occurred while creating the media file‘
If I set it to 25fps it Renders OK.

I also tried 50fps and set it to progressive – fails with same error message.

What should I be using here? Goal is a Blu-ray compliant 1920×1080 … and assumed for best HD this should be 1080p.

[Rick Hughes]

Just finished rendering out all the videos for this project (and might have screwed up)

I had settings as per the template shown above (but with slider now set to High)

When I dropped into DVDA studio I noticed that this is then set to produce 1920×1080 25i – with no option to choose 25p
When I started down this route I had advice to use the 50i ‘Render as’ template .. explanation that it would be 2 identical frames would produce the 25 fps I wanted to end up with.

I want this to be full 1080p ….
Looking at MediaInfo it shows the output files are 25fps interlaced. Should I have set template to 25 fps progressive?
I thought (maybe incorrectly) Blu-ray spec need this to be 50i interlaced and it converted to 25p

Here is the DVDA properties:

[Rick Hughes]

I did have ‘all sources’ selected … but that did find the problem .. to the left of ‘all sources’ drop down menu is a small button … ‘show all buttons’ wasn’t selected.
(I didn’t even know it was there)

Though – if anybody is aware of any extras on-line that can be downloaded – point me to them.

[Rick Hughes]

I’ll do the same as well

[Rick Hughes]

Looking at the template again … I have another Q on settings.
I am unclear what I should set for Level it is default to ‘High‘
With the option to set Level to: HIGH, HIGH 1440, Main or Low

The help files quote:
High Level
HDTV production rates: 1920 x 1080 x 30 Hz

High 1440 Level
HDTV consumer rates: 1440 x 960 x 30 Hz

Main Level
Main Level CCIR 601 rates: 720 x 480 x 30 Hz

Low Level
SIF video rate: 352 x 240 x 30 Hz

We recommend using the Main Level setting if you’re creating MPEG files for NTSC or PAL DVDs or SVCDs. Change this setting only when required by specialized production environments.

It does not mention Blu-ray at 25fps … but on frame size would I be correct in leaving Level set to HIGH

[Rick Hughes]

That knocks that idea on the head then.
Maybe AC3 professional will make an appearance ion Movie Studio in future version – can’t justify cost of Vegas Pro.

[Rick Hughes]

Didn’t know the ? symbol bought up specific info .. thought it was general ‘help’ menu only – thanks for that.

OK .. think I follow – the video files size, bit rate, frame rate will be unchanged … but how the codec treats the data is what it impacts.

Still don’t understand why you would ever want an MPEG2 file lower quality than ‘best’ if all other parameters don’t change ?

Also to follow this though – if in project properties you have set “Full resolution rendering quality” to Best … does that overrule this slider, or does the slider make the properties setting almost irrelevant ?

[Rick Hughes]

Thanks … ver 5 has not been upgraded for some time

Maybe I’ll look at ‘pro’ ver when they offer next upgrade, or would there be no point as Movie Studio only has the non “professional”! ac3 encoder.

[Rick Hughes]

To confirm I have ..

Movie Studio 12 Platinum
DVD Architect Studio 5