HD to DVD Arch

FoskeyMedia wrote on 10/15/2017, 12:43 AM

I shoot everything in HD. I never know when a client may want to throw it up on the web. Many of my banquets wind up being long... sometimes up to or over 2 hours. I know I can play with the bit rate in DVDA, but could I also once I'm done editing render a second SD copy for DVD use? Does that make sense at all (instead of trying to calculate bit rate and what not).

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NickHope wrote on 10/15/2017, 1:16 AM

Does that make sense at all

Not really 😕

(instead of trying to calculate bit rate and what not).

Do you mean instead of making a Blu-ray?

If you mean: "Can you can downscale an HD project to SD for DVD even if it's really long, by adjusting the bitrate?", the answer is "Yes".

OldSmoke wrote on 10/15/2017, 9:04 AM

I shoot everything in HD. I never know when a client may want to throw it up on the web. Many of my banquets wind up being long... sometimes up to or over 2 hours. I know I can play with the bit rate in DVDA, but could I also once I'm done editing render a second SD copy for DVD use? Does that make sense at all (instead of trying to calculate bit rate and what not).

I render a master file and use that to render to any format I may need. XAVC-I would be a good format, unfortunately HandBrake doesn't support that format and I render an XAVC-S too for anything that goes on the web. Vegasaur does an excellent job in doing multiple, different format renders fully automatically.