help with burning a blu-ray disk

smaster501 wrote on 7/15/2012, 5:38 PM
I recently got DVD Architect pro 5 to burn a Blu-ray edition of this dance recital i shot a few weeks ago. I am using a 50 gb dual-layer BD. My video is about 2 hrs and 20 min long, shot at 1280x720 at 60 fps. I have all the BD project properties matched to the video. The project itself takes about 17 gigs (36% of the whole disk). The problem that i am having is that it wants to take over 100 hours to render and prepare this project to burn! I am almost 100% positive that this is not normal for a blu-ray, and i'm not willing to let my computer run for that amount of time. My computer that i am using is Win 7 64bit, AMD Phenom 2 quad-core processor at 3.40 GHz with 6 gigs of RAM. This is more powerful than my brand new iMac. Can someone please help me figure out why it wants to take so long and how to fix it? I am also on a deadline so im willing to try pretty much anything at this point.

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PeterDuke wrote on 7/15/2012, 7:47 PM
Is the video as shot or has it been edited? If edited, did you render using the Sony AVC template in Vegas?

If rendering is necessary, it is better to do it to a compliant template in Vegas rather than DVDA.
videoITguy wrote on 7/15/2012, 10:56 PM
To smaster501:
While I have no idea of your skill set or your systems processing power - I think the scope of your proposed burn is way too much.

Here is how to manage:
1) Edit your footage in VegasPro. Get it under total of 2hours. Export the project in a first and second half (less than 1 hr each) section with an appropriate video and audio stream for import in DVDAPro.
2) Scrap the dual-layer BD - instead use 2 25gig BDR's to burn each section. Package as 2-some set in a vinyl plastic case if you wish.

Unfortunately preparing and burning Blu-ray is a much more time consuming process than regular DVD. Scale your aspirations to match your abilities and the equipment you have at hand.
PeterDuke wrote on 7/16/2012, 12:48 AM
If the total project of 140 mins. is only 17 GB, it will fit on a normal 25 GB disc, so from a technical perspective, there is no need to put it on two 25 GB discs or one 50 GB disc. I have recently done just that using 1920x1080i.

However, you might like to consider who the audience/viewers will be and whether they might prefer something shorter, but that is another issue.

I put chapters at each scene to permit easy skipping, but be aware that due to a bug (or "missing feature") the skip function of BDs made with DVDA does not work with many BD players once you leave the initial menu page. If you have a single main menu page (no scene menu pages) then skip chapters should work with all players.

The skip function works perfectly on BDs made with every other authoring program I have tried. I am currently using TMPGEnc Authoring Works to do this, but it is more work for me than DVDA would have been if it worked properly.

I also tried Adobe Encore, but it insisted on re-encoding all my work unnecessarily, a la the OP's issue with DVDA.
smaster501 wrote on 7/16/2012, 7:18 PM
It is impossible to shorten my footage because that's just how it's edited, but here is my situation as far as the file type:
I edited with a trial version of Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 on my iMac, and it ended like 2 weeks ago (i had the video all finished by then). And i dont have the money to buy the full version or the proper internet usage to download the windows version of the trial (i live in the middle of nowhere, so i use 3G).
But i am going to try to import the video into my Vegas pro 8 timeline and render it using that sony codec mentioned above. And i'm going to end up using the 50 gig BD because i dont have the time to send them back and have Newegg ship me another type intime for my deadline.
PeterDuke wrote on 7/17/2012, 12:30 AM
Don't forget that with DVDA, you should render your project from Vegas as two files, one containing the video and the other the audio. They should have the same file name stems and be located in the same directory.

I suggest that you render a small portion of your project first to try things out. Go as far as creating a Blu-ray image file but don't burn to a physical disc. You can mount the .iso image using the free Virtual Clone Drive.

In your final project I suggest you sprinkle chapter marks throughout the movie to permit the use of the skip (back/next) buttons on the BD player's remote control. Don't create a scene menu page.