I rendered to file. I don't have MF6 so I burnt to disk with Nero Recode using the Sony PS3 settings. I tried to burn with Encore but couldn't do that - I need watch the Encore tutorial. I'm looking for MF6 now to give that a try to compare to Nero. With MF6 I believe no recode is necessary. Nero did drop the quality as playing the file from HD is much better than playing the disc in a player.

Thanks.

I look forward to try this too - I think MF6 is nice and quite inexpensive too.

/Ulf

After you rendered to AVC and 1080i, And finished the movie what format did you end up with? A .TS file or a BDMV file. I'm a little confused about what type file . A BDMV is an AVCHD movie & a .TS movie is a SD movie. Sorry I'm so dumb.

As I said the Nero Recode really degrades the image and I have not yet used MF6 but the straight .m2ts plays beautyfully on the PS3 - no menus of course but for a 60min short without options it's a great distribution option until we can all afford Blu-ray burners.

> it's a great distribution option until we can all afford Blu-ray burners.

Actually, burners have come down. You can pick up a 2x Blu-ray burner for $399 USD at NewEgg.com. The real issue is the price of the media. The discs are still around $10 each which means after burning 40 discs you have exceeded the cost of the burner. So the IMHO the burners are very affordable. ;-)

~jr

nj4y
The Vegas AVC render makes .m2ts files which are the same as used in the Blu-ray STREAM directory. I guess that these are in turn a more compressed form of the regular .m2t transport stream and I would like to know the exact difference between the .m2t and .m2ts files if anyone can explain that.

I would like to know the exact difference between the .m2t and .m2ts files if anyone can explain that.

Yes - would be nice ;-) it can be hard to follow up on all the technical standards all the time...

/Ulf

MH_Stevens,
Nero 8.2.8.0 update can smart render the videos from Vegas and create an AVCHD disk.
I installed the 8.2.8.0 update on Vista and didn't have any problems, XP kept giving me errors.
Finally got Nero 8.2.8.0 to work by renaming a directory. If someone else has this problem then ask.

Using Nero Vision is somewhat confusing but in the end burning screen you will see the amount of video/audio that Nero will re-encode. It should say 100% for the audio & video.
Nero uses 14MBS as the max-bit-rate. If you encode in Vegas then Nero will display approx 91% smart-render. You can let Nero re-encode the video (which I don't care for), or change the Vegas encoder to 14MBS or less instead of 15MBS.
MovieFactory 6 does not have this limitation, MF6 Max-bit-rate is 18MBS ( I think ).

To get Nero to Smart-Render you have to adjust or match your video/audio settings to the same as the source videos. It may work if you leave everything on automatic. In the Burning screen where you view the amount of smart rendering nero will perform while in that same screen click on "More" then "Video Options". You can change the settings, then exit & view the new smart encoding settings/amounts. It's easier to disable the menu when doing this to learn how nero will use smart render. Usually if your video is less than 14MBS and compliant audio the automatic settings will display 100% smart rendered.
You can make great AVCHD disks using Nero that play on the PS3 & blu-ray disk players, having Nero encode them or using Vegas encoded videos.

I just used Nero to smart render an AVCHD disk to harddisk. The avc/h264 video was 11 minutes encoded in Vegas at 12MBS with Dolby 5.1@448kbs. Nero took about a minute to write the avchd disk structure to the harddisk. You can't use the harddisk avchd format on a dvd, you have to burn a dvd for the avchd disk to play in players, different file extensions in the "Streams" Directory.