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LJA wrote on 8/10/2010, 6:57 AM
Burning to Blu-ray format on a DVD-5 disk is fully covered in the DVD Architect manual. Look under AVCHD. Options other than Blu-ray I will leave for others to comment on.
Tom Pauncz wrote on 8/10/2010, 7:27 AM
You can burn Blu-ray content to DVD-5 or DVD-9. The only caveat I am aware of relates to maximum bitrate when burning blu-ray to DVD-5 or DVD-9.

I vaguely recall 18mbits/sec (or is it MB/s - I forget) as the magic number.

Look through this forum as it has been discussed before. Search on my name should find it as i believe i commented in that thread.

Tom
Melachrino wrote on 8/10/2010, 9:38 AM
Go to the DVD Architect forum. This subject is covered many, many times. But the bottom answer is yes, DVDA5 will Author and Prepare a full HD video onto a regular, inexpensive DVD disc. Use the default bit rate suggested - about 15 Mbps - . and it will play with menus and everything in at least most Sony Blueray players. Also, a regular DVD will hold about 25 minutes of full HD video. Pretty darn good for fabulous home movies - and cheap.
john_dennis wrote on 8/10/2010, 5:24 PM
Form one of my old posts:
"I have been using Verbatim dual layer DVD-9 disks for Blu-ray. They burn at 6x on a Plextor PX716A DVD writer. No matter what I start with in Vegas, I render using one of the Blu-ray templates which I change to match the properties of the media.
I altered the Blu-ray 1920x1080-24p template to 1280x720-59.94. Since the video was captured off air, I set the maximum bit rate to 20mbps. Most of the material is around 15mbps so I render variable in Vegas at 15 mbps with a low minimum. The m2v and ac3 output goes to DVD Architect where I write an image. I have done projects with menus and no-menus. I use IMGBurn to write the image to DVD or Blu-ray. Using IMGBurn to write the disk frees me to work on something else in DVD Architect since even a 6X burn can take a while."
I have been in many of these threads, search for "john_dennis" and "Blu-ray". Many of these discussions were back a year or so.
PeterDuke wrote on 8/10/2010, 6:48 PM
You see many warnings about putting an AVCHD disc into a standard DVD player. You may not be able to get it out again easily, at best, or you may damage the player, at worst. I haven't tried it or accidentally done it yet (touch wood!).
PeterDuke wrote on 8/10/2010, 6:57 PM
At 18 megabits/second total data rate, appropriate for HDV or AVCHD, a standard 4.7GB disc will hold about 40 minutes. Blu-ray quality (35 Mb/s) would give you about 20 minutes.
PeterDuke wrote on 8/10/2010, 7:09 PM
MultiAVCHD + ImgBurn is a free alternative to DVD Architect you might like to try for authoring. I haven't tried it seriously; only verified that discs created with it played on my Panasonic Blu-ray player (recorder).