BluRay or HD DVD and double density discs?

vicmilt wrote on 10/27/2007, 10:39 AM

Figured this rates a new thread...

I burned a BluRay directly from Vegas 8 (Tools>Burn Disc>BluRay) and it crashed a few times, but there were some serious effects on the timeline. So I renderder to a new track with HDV1080 and it burned the BluRay w/o incident.
Quad 6600 2 gig RAM 16x burner - about 2 hours of render and burn for a 30 minute piece.

So now the problem with standard DVD discs is that you can only get 1/2 hour on a standard disc.

1 - will the "BluRay to DVD from Vegas 8 timeline" burn to a double density disc? My single densities are about 32 minutes to the disc, so I assume a double density (if it works) will get about an hour and five minutes or so. My movie is 1 hour and 15 minutes - any thoughts there?

2 - What's the max length you can burn on HD HDV for the Toshiba deck? And will that deck accept double density discs?

Every onward... and best to all you pioneers out there bleeding on the cutting edge.

v

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craftech wrote on 10/27/2007, 12:21 PM

2 - What's the max length you can burn on HD HDV for the Toshiba deck? And will that deck accept double density discs?

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None of the prosumer programs for burning will create any of the extra interactivity inherent in the HD DVD spec so you can burn the menus and buttons.

You have to burn your video to DVD-R/+R or DVD-R/+R DL discs.
That gives you a maximum capacity of 8.5GB,or about 50 minutes of high-quality video, and about 30 minutes for a single-layer disc.

Greater compression will make the video quality suffer so I would put it on two DVD-R/+Rs - one single layer and one dual layer. You need a logical break point for switching discs in the video. The Toshiba plyer will play both SL and DL discs. It may work better when sent over component rather than HDMI, but you should experiment.

John