https://help.magix-hub.com/video/vegas/21/en/content/topics/burn_bluray.htm suggests There is a "blu ray" option in the burn disc menu. I do not see this with Vegas Pro 22.0.
What is the latest guidance on rendering and burning a 1080p surround sound project to Blu Ray that will be compatible in most NTSC players?
BluRay disc burning is no longer available in Vegas Pro.
Wishing I hadn't bought the upgrade if that is the case. :-(
That is the case but older versions of VEGAS continue to function and can be used alongside 22.
My disc-based (Sony) Vegas 11 which was the license I previously held could not be installed on my new machine because the internet-based mechanisms for validating the serial number are no longer online.
DVD Architect is included with my original Vegas 11 Movie Studio Platinum HD, yes. The upgrade didn't include it. It has Upgrades for Vegas & Soundforge, and includes a handful of other packages: ACID Pro 11, core FX suite, wizardFX Suite, MAGIX Analogue modeling suite plus, MAGIX essentialFX suite, MAGIX Vandal, MAGIX VariVerb II, Independence Pro Standard, Independence Pro Plus Library.
DVD Architect has long been a discontinued product and has not accompanied a Vegas Pro purchase for many years. If you looked at Vegas Pro 22's product website before purchasing, you would have seen that DVD Architect was not mentioned as an inclusion.
Nonetheless, you can still render Vegas Pro 22 projects to HD AVC or MPEG-2 in VP22 to use in DVD Architect from your MSP11 purchase (presumably DVDA 5.2). I still use DVDA 6.0 from my Sony Vegas Pro 13 purchase.
Thanks for the feedback. I'm getting there with a handful of external tools.
Exporting the video as 1920x1080 MPEG 2.
Exporting the audio to Wave 64 (5.1 LCPM) 48 khz, 24-bit
Running that WAV through eac3to to create a 5.1 AC3 file.
Using tsMuxeR to mux the video, PCM and AC3 and chapters into a BDMV folder.
Output is about 38 GB for a 2h 38m video. I just need figure the right tool to squeeze this down to 25 Mbps before burning without destroying the video quality.
@LCB Is there a reason you are using mpeg2 instead of avc especially as you are needing to get the best quality at the lowest bitrate.
2hr 38 min will probably fit onto a 25gb disc (23.3gb in pc language) with an average video bitrate around 18 Mbps which is more than adequate for great quality with avc.
@LCB Check out this post. It's old, but still valid. It briefly shows the entire process of creating a Blu-ray disc with AC-3 5.1 Surround audio using VEGAS, Voukoder Free and DVD Architect.