Hi all. Running DVD Architect 5.2.
I purchased/downloaded some tutorials and I've been turning them into Blu-rays. I was using the Adobe workflow previously for the other discs, but this last batch just wasn't cutting it because Premiere would ALWAYS render out the video longer than the audio, so the tutorials would lose sync. So, I went back to the Vegas/DVD Architect workflow.
I compiled the individual clips (each tutorial has several chapters) in Vegas, added bookmarks, and rendered them out at 1280x720 (59.94fps) AVC. The bookmarks never showed up when I brought the clip into DVD Architect, but no big deal. I made the menus, added chapter stops, good to go.
Herein lies the problem. Some of the tutorials are upwards of 6 hours in length; some are just a few hours. In each case though, the AVC file exceeded the 25GB limit - or 22.5GB, whatever the Blu-ray limit is - so I needed to recompress everything and use the Fit to Disc feature, something that has always worked in the past.
I optimize the disc, select a bitrate that'll get my under 22GB or so, then render away. I prepared four Blu-ray .iso files, and it took between 8 and 16 hours per Blu-ray, only to find that the .iso files were between 3GB and 6GB!
I burned a test Blu-ray on the smallest .iso, popped it in the Blu-ray player, and it looked horrendous. It was obviously crushed way too much.
So, thinking that perhaps I screwed up the settings somehow, I gave it another go and built the project from scratch. Made sure I was creating a 1280x720 59.94fps Blu-ray, brought everything in, optimized the disc, only this time I just selected "Fit to Disc" and didn't mess with the bitrate slider; just went with what DVD Architect recommended.
9 hours later, same problem. Instead of a 22.5GB project (which is what DVD Architect showed at the lower right while the disc was being prepared), I ended up with a 5GB .iso file.
Any idea what in the world is going on here??
I purchased/downloaded some tutorials and I've been turning them into Blu-rays. I was using the Adobe workflow previously for the other discs, but this last batch just wasn't cutting it because Premiere would ALWAYS render out the video longer than the audio, so the tutorials would lose sync. So, I went back to the Vegas/DVD Architect workflow.
I compiled the individual clips (each tutorial has several chapters) in Vegas, added bookmarks, and rendered them out at 1280x720 (59.94fps) AVC. The bookmarks never showed up when I brought the clip into DVD Architect, but no big deal. I made the menus, added chapter stops, good to go.
Herein lies the problem. Some of the tutorials are upwards of 6 hours in length; some are just a few hours. In each case though, the AVC file exceeded the 25GB limit - or 22.5GB, whatever the Blu-ray limit is - so I needed to recompress everything and use the Fit to Disc feature, something that has always worked in the past.
I optimize the disc, select a bitrate that'll get my under 22GB or so, then render away. I prepared four Blu-ray .iso files, and it took between 8 and 16 hours per Blu-ray, only to find that the .iso files were between 3GB and 6GB!
I burned a test Blu-ray on the smallest .iso, popped it in the Blu-ray player, and it looked horrendous. It was obviously crushed way too much.
So, thinking that perhaps I screwed up the settings somehow, I gave it another go and built the project from scratch. Made sure I was creating a 1280x720 59.94fps Blu-ray, brought everything in, optimized the disc, only this time I just selected "Fit to Disc" and didn't mess with the bitrate slider; just went with what DVD Architect recommended.
9 hours later, same problem. Instead of a 22.5GB project (which is what DVD Architect showed at the lower right while the disc was being prepared), I ended up with a 5GB .iso file.
Any idea what in the world is going on here??