I would like to export a Blu-ray project as DVD

markhennings wrote on 9/5/2010, 9:33 PM

Is it possible to create a project as a Blu-ray project and burn regular DVD's from it?

This would save me a lot of time since I have to burn 1 Blu-ray and 3 DVD's from the same video files and menus and chapter markers.

I don't want to have to recreate it as a standard definition project. Is there a way to downconvert automatically in DVD Architech Studio?

I tried going to Make Blu-ray disc and then clicking Optimize on the "Review Message List" screen and then clicking "Project Properties" but the "Disc format" field therein is grayed out and cannot be changed from Blu-ray Disc to DVD. Blarg.

Anyone know the answer to this? Would be much appreciated. Thanks.

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Kimberly wrote on 9/6/2010, 6:55 AM

Hello Mark:

There is a long discussion about putting Blu-Ray format projects on DVD here:

http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/forums/ShowMessage.asp?MessageID=721883&Replies=80

Good luck!

Kim

markhennings wrote on 9/6/2010, 10:02 AM

Thanks Kimberly, but that discussion is about starting with a Blu-ray project and burning some hybrid DVD that plays AVCHD video files on Blu-ray players.

I want to start with a Blu-ray project and burn a regular DVD that plays on regular DVD players.

KenJ62 wrote on 9/6/2010, 3:58 PM

I recently finished a 105 minute wedding video. I created all the markers as usual in VMS. I rendered audio as a Sony .w64 file and video as both Blu-ray .m2v and DVD .mpg. I authored the Blu-ray as usual in DVDAS5 with menus and after burning the BDs I deleted the .m2v and added in the .mpg, changed the project to DVD and burned them. Once I had the menus built I didn't have to change anything but the video file. It worked nicely!

PeterDuke wrote on 9/6/2010, 8:49 PM

Down sampling a HD project to SD is not straight forward for best results. Some people advocate that if you want a SD DVD then you should shoot in SD in the first place for best results.The topic has been discussed zillions of times on various forums over the years.

So far as Vegas is concerned, be sure to set a deinterlace method to something other than "none". Although you might start and finish with interlaced video, the internal processing should resample on progressive frames. Also, set the rendering quality to "best".

KenJ62 wrote on 9/8/2010, 12:15 PM

I too have read the long threads on lack of quality with downrez from HD to SD but I must say that I have come to the place where I think what we get is plenty good enough. In the SD days I used to obsess about video quality but my downrezed DVDs look very good and the closeups even look high definition when played on a upconverter DVD player into an HDTV. Can we eeck out better quality by using some other esoteric tools? Yes, but I have found only geeks like us obsess about this stuff and most viewers of our work think the video quality is outstanding.

My recommendation is to simplify your life and don't worry about 5 percent better quality - the effort is not worth the (lots of) extra time and effort.