EXCESSIVE DISC BURNING TIMES

JohnJ wrote on 11/13/2015, 10:23 AM

Hello,
I am trying to burn a Bluray which is 49% of the capacity of a Bluray disc. There are 6 titles which I rendered as 1920x 1080 50i 25 fps. I have rendered the audio separately as Stereo AC 3.This has been done in Vegas Pro 13. I then set up the project in ArchPro 6 and dragged the rendered files on to the title page of the project from the explorer. Then I went to make Bluray disc chose burn to disc. it is now saying that it is going to take 14 hours (and rising!) to complete the project.
I have done this many times before and I know it not take this long.
Can someone advise me what may have gone wrong, please?

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PeterDuke wrote on 11/13/2015, 4:53 PM

Did you render your video to a Vegas template that says "Blu-ray" or "AVCHD"? Did you render the audio to the AC3 Pro (not studio) version?

See my instructions towards the end of this thread:
http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/forums/showmessage.asp?messageid=934688

JohnJ wrote on 11/14/2015, 11:14 AM

Thanks for your note. I have set project properties in Vegas 13 as HD 1080-50i (1920x1080,25,000fps.
I have rendered the video as Sony AVC AVCHD 50i with the include video box checked and include audio box unchecked. Audio has been rendered as AC-3 PRO CUSTOMISED TO -31db
dialogue normalisation. This appears to work as the files can be reopened with Vegas 13.
DVDA has been set as Blu-ray disc with menu AVC 1920X1080 16:9 WITH AUDIO FORMAT ac3 stereo.
Two files appear in the explorer file, I am not sure which one to take, presumably the one with the film strip and music note icon.
However when I try to insert the files from the explorer into the DVDA project they will not pick up.
I am clearly doing something wrong, I am non technical and this is my retirement project and I would be very grateful if you would give me some guidance in simple terms.
Thanks
Johnj

PeterDuke wrote on 11/14/2015, 5:05 PM

By default, Windows does not show the file extension, forcing you to use the icon to identify the file type. I think this comes from Mac envy. I suggest that you set your folder properties to show the file extension if you have not yet done so. I think the Sony AVCHD files will have a .m2ts extension, and the audio a .AC3 extension.

Both files should preferably be in the same folder and have the same file stem name. If you do, then loading one file will also load the other.

I start a new project as you have done. I then locate the files in DVDA explorer window and drag the video file to the main menu. An icon will appear with the name of the file as well. The audio also gets loaded.

I usually change the icon to text only and if there is to be no chapter menu, I may leave the name as is or rename it to something more elegant if appropriate.

If I have only one video (known as a title set) and it has a chapter menu, I rename the text of the icon to "Play".

If there are two or more videos, the text should be the name of the video of course.

JohnJ wrote on 11/16/2015, 10:49 AM

Thanks for your help, I am still working on it.
I don't understand why when I drop the rendered Vegas 13 files into the DVDA project it renders them again. This seems to be what takes so much time, or am I missing something?

PeterDuke wrote on 11/16/2015, 6:21 PM

If DVDA renders your files again, then you are missing something. The normal aim is for DVDA to only render the menu.

JohnJ wrote on 11/17/2015, 2:06 AM

Thanks,
Although it said it would take 15+ hours to complete, I left it to see what would happen and it completed in normal time. So it seems that the error is in the time forecast, not the actual execution of the task. Thanks again
JohnJ