Help! Trouble burning Blu Ray Videos.

NWDiver wrote on 11/25/2008, 7:10 AM
Really need someone to tell me what my Presets, Format and Template should be when I go to “Make Movie”.

Using Sony Vegas Movie Studio Platinum 8. 0. Equipment is: Sony HC7, Buffalo Tech Blue Ray 6x burner, Sony 25 gig Blu Ray disks. Playing on PS3..

Problems to date:
1. MPEG 2 + HDV 1080-60i. When saving to drive it converts 21.50minutes of a 50 minute video then stops and gives an Unexplained Error message. This happens regardless of what video I try to download.
2. Video for Windows + 1080-60i. Saves, burns to SONY Blu Ray disk, but PS3 player says “unsupported data”.
3. Windows Media Video V9. Converts no problem, burns to disk but when playing on the PS3 all photos and video are narrow like for a non-wide screen TV. (I have looked for a “ratio” button in the Make Movie section but cannot find one.

Format
MPEG 2
Template: HDV 1080-60i or HDV 1080-50i

Quick Time 7
Real Media 9

Video For Windows (avi)
Template: HDV 1080-60i or HDV 1080-50i (intermediate)

Windows Media Video V9 (wmv)
Template: 6.4 Mbps HD 1080-24p, 6.7 Mbps HD 1080-25p, 8.0 Mbps HD 1080-30p

Preset
1080-60i (1440x1080, 29.970 fps)

Comments

Eugenia wrote on 11/25/2008, 1:33 PM
1. Download Vegas Platinum 9 and see if it crashes on that version too. IF yes, do a bug report with Sony.

2. This is normal. AVI doesn't mean divx, it can mean any codec, and most devices don't support intermediate format.

3. This is because you saved in 1440x1080 instead of 1920x1080. The PS3 doesn't recognize non-square pixels of WMV files.

What you need to do is either of this:
1. Use my guide for BD burning: http://eugenia.gnomefiles.org/2008/02/23/create-blu-ray-video-in-plain-dvds-for-free/
2. Upgrade to Platinum 9.0b which does all that in one step and supports 1920x1080 (v8 doesn't export as such, it's a limitation).
3. Why the heck are you burning disks for anyway? Just move your HDV files, or WMV 720p files, directly on the PS3 either via DVD/thumbdrive, or via your local ethernet network and a UPnP server. There's no reason to burn stuff.