Great Vegas Tip (just ignore if you already know)

michaelshive wrote on 5/2/2008, 6:19 AM
If you are anxious to get into Blu-ray burning but haven't invested in any equipment yet, Vegas provides a great way to provide HD material to your clients in Blu-ray format at no additional cost.

Using the new "Burn timeline to Blu-ray" feature in Vegas 8 you can render and burn your HD content to a standard 4.7gb DVD-R and the client can play it back in HD in their Blu-ray drive (PS3 or other). We tested it out using AVCHD compression and Mpeg-2 and both worked great in a Playstation 3 drive.

I'm sure this has been talked about here but the ease of use of this feature is so nice and works so well that I just had to share!

Comments

video777 wrote on 5/2/2008, 8:20 AM
I didn't know that. Thank you.
StormMarc wrote on 5/2/2008, 9:48 AM
Thank you. How much video will fit?
michaelshive wrote on 5/2/2008, 10:24 AM
Depends on the compression ratio. One of the templates is 15Mbps (AVC) and the other one is 25Mpbs (MPEG2). So if you normally compressed DVD at around 8Mbps then you would have about 1/2 the time at 15 or 1/3 of the time at 25.
Laurence wrote on 5/2/2008, 11:21 AM
The trouble with doing it that way is that very few Blu-ray players will play that sort of disc. A PS3 for instance won't play that kind of disc. An actual AVCHD format disc authored to DVD+-R is almost universally compatible, but you can't do that from Vegas.
michaelshive wrote on 5/2/2008, 12:31 PM
A PS3 is exactly what we tested this out on. It played fine.
bartkean wrote on 5/2/2008, 5:14 PM
I also have played these kinds of discs in a PS3, although I did update the firmware. Also, you have to navigate to the file to play it.

Bart
Laurence wrote on 5/2/2008, 8:36 PM
I have played by navigating to the file, but I want it to play back from the menu like it does with the AVCHD on DVD+-R format.

I haven't tested this since the last PS3 firmware update though. The last time I tried, my Blu-ray on DVD+-R showed up as a data disc. I could step through the subdirectories and play the video file, but I couldn't get the discs to read like a regular Bluray disc would.

An AVCHD format DVD+-R from Ulead Movie Factory 6 with the HD plugin pack works much better. You put it in the PS3 and it immediately starts playing the menu like a real Bluray disc would.

Is the situation better since the last PS3 update?
UlfLaursen wrote on 5/2/2008, 9:54 PM
Thanks Michael - didn't quite know.

/Ulf
DJPadre wrote on 5/3/2008, 12:53 AM
no, the latest FW update for PS3 breaks certain media file playback from disc or USB drive

This is a known but not admitted issue.

sadly u need to update the firmware for the PS store as well as some updated internet security elements.