Topic: BluRay sharing/Trading

[firmdragon]

phanophis: what are you using to make the dvd menus?

[phanophish]

I used DVD Architect which is part of Vegas Pro....

[firmdragon]

for all you guys authoring in blue ray.  what are you guys using for video/audio codecs.  maybe a workflow or something would be cool.  bit rates and settings would be awesome. 

[leehookem]

I'm interested as well.

[sparkey]

for all you guys authoring in blue ray.  what are you guys using for video/audio codecs.  maybe a workflow or something would be cool.  bit rates and settings would be awesome.

me too me too

[beatkilla]

I edit than render pcm audio(sony wave 64) than render the video as sony avc 16mbps.im using sony vegas pro 9.for bluray you can use mpeg 4,avchd,or .m2t .my tests have shown avc to give best results .

[madpicken]

hey first post! i've been using vegas9/architect5

i've found that if you render HD mpeg2 with the HDV 1080X60i template that's at a constant bitrate of 25MBPS you do not get a recompression of the original video.... however, when i author the bluray on architect any which way i go with; bluray stream at 25mbps variable bit rate or with the HDV 25mpbs CBR template, it recompresses the video and takes my computer 6-7 hours to render the video. has anyone found a template in which you do not have to recompress the video in architect or is there just no way around this?

here's a quote from architect help on video compression:
<sup>You can burn Blu-ray Disc projects to BD recordable discs using the BDMV format:

A 25 GB single-layer BD recordable disc can store approximately 3 hours, 42 minutes of AVC video (15 Mbps) or 2 hours, 15 minutes of MPEG-2 video (25 Mbps).

A 50 GB dual-layer BD recordable disc can store approximately 7 hours, 25 minutes of AVC video (15 Mbps) or 4 hours, 31 minutes of MPEG-2 video (25 Mbps).</sup>

[beatkilla]

When i use sony avc  dvd architect 5 does not recompress.for your mpeg 2 recompression if you make any changes at all to the preset like using constant bit rate recompression will be required.thats why i use avc plus it looks better.if your going to stick with mpeg 2 id skip the vegas render and let architect compress it.

[madpicken]

beatkilla; ok ill check out the avc setting when I get around to my computer. the hdv setting makes a m2t container. But what evidence can u point out that makes you say that avc setting looks better? also, what camera are u using? canon hv30 here. minidvs.... the input bitrate is 25mbps, im curios to understand why you are choosing 16mbps?

[beatkilla]

16 seems to be the limit for avc.im using sony fx 1000 and canon hv30 both are hdv mini dv.after capture of m2t.s .i transcode to cineform for color correcting purposes and than i render to sony avc .