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Vegas Pro 8 supposedly can export to BD9
Vegas supports writing to AVCHD disks, which is similar, HD content burned to a standard DVD disk, but as DSE says, you need the full version to do AC3 encoding.
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In the Vegas module that allows AVCHD output, when you select AVCHD with a m2ts wrapper, you cannot select 1920
In order to render 1920×1080 in H.264 render with the Mainconcept AVC encoder from Vegas, it allows you to render 1920×1080. The Mainconcept encoder uses the MP4 wrapper, which in general is preferable to the M2TS I think, but don’t quote me on that.
Basically, what I want is to be able to put my home videos in an AVCHD disc like the ones the Panasonic software makes
That should not be a problem as such, but you are going to find it hard to find authoring software that supports what you want to do. There is some, but it won’t do 1920×1080 at the moment as far as I know. But rendering from Vegas should not be a problem.
Currently I render 1920×1080 from Vegas in MP4 25M/s, burn it to a data DVD and play it on my Playstation 3. Currently working on setting up streaming instead. I use Ulead DVD Movie Factory to create AVDHD disks, they are at the moment the only thing that works reasonably (and Nero too) but the quality is not up to snuff. Probably have to wait until summer or so for the software to catch up.
You say “In Vegas, you have frame-accurate editing without a reencode or cut list.” You mean, for other formats, but not for AVCHD, right?
At the moment there is no NLE in the world that will do frame-accurate editing for AVCHD, and given the time it took to get only reasonable HDV editing, that is probably a couple of years away still. If you want to edit the AVCHD format your best bet is going to be to convert it to an intermediary using something like Cineform NEO HD and edit this. It’ll cost you a buck or two.
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As Ed and Mike says, you have to adjust the bitrate. This is a bitrate calculator you can use, and it says that for two hours of video, you can use a bitrate of 4853 kbits/s.
Switch to a dual layer disk and you can use a bitrate of 9030.
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The problem is not going to be with Vegas, but with the access to your server. The capture bit in particular I would be careful about. You will of course be able to work with media on the server, but I can’t imagine it being a pleasant experience rendering from and to a network drive, even over a 1G connection. This is TCP/IP and Microsoft we are talking about.
There are alternatives that will give you much faster connections of course, but I am not sure what your budget is.
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The short answer is “no”, but there are always modifications. There are a few things that are going to be hard to do over a network, capturing being one of them. Also, in general, I think that editing and rendering to/from a network drive may become painful, but I haven’t tried this my self.
Of course you need to back up your work regularly, and this should be done in an automated way, so having a big server to do this work is a clear advantage.
There are a number of solutions out there today that will make regular backups of your local hard drives onto the server, which can then be backed up properly. I would recommend solutions like those. IBM Tivoli Storage Manager is what we use.
My company has a ton of employees with personal laptop computers, and we all travel around all the time. Obviously having a proper backup solution is as important as it is hard. We all have IBM Tivoli Storage Manager installed, and the laptops are backed up automatically whenever we connect to the intranet. You could probably have a schedule where your desktops are backed up when not in use/late at night etc.
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Maybe it’s just me, but I hate to archive footage at high compression. I would get some archive media. Blu-Ray burner, tapes, a bunch of cheap external hard drives. Something like that.
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What you are asking is not entirely possible, that is the reality of the matter. When you compress enough to save any real amount of disk space, you will see quite a quality loss, particularly if the intent is to re-compress the video at a later stage.
You say that you render uncompressed, and from After Effects that would often be reasonable, but what is your source footage? It seems uncompressed is a little OTT if you are working with video footage.
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You should definitely defrag your HD regularly. I don’t defrag before every render, not even close, but I do defrag on a regular basis.
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Only thing I found in the forums was an old mention about having 32 bit processing enabled, which I guess doesn’t apply since this is in 32bit Windows XP do everything is 32 bit?
The 32 bit aspect of XP is a different issue than the 32 bit aspect of your video. If you change your project properties to use 32 bit pixel depth in you video, your rendering times will go up. Significantly. Have you set your project to use 32 bit video?
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Not yet. I use Ulead DVD Workshop with the HD plugin for this.
Given that Sony is the major proponent of Blu-Ray, this is odd to put it mildly, and hopefully they won’t lag hopelessly behind toy companies like Ulead for too long.