Limit on AVC bitrate for blu-ray in DVDA 5?

IAM4UK wrote on 9/25/2009, 8:21 AM

I capture video with a Canon HF S100 in AVCHD at 24 Mbps.

I would like to use Vegas Pro 9 and DVD-A 5 to make a blu-ray .ISO image of that video footage. Ideally, I would avoid re-rendering at different bitrates.

However, I am unable to do this. I have read that DVD-A 5 has a 16 Mbps effective limit on AVC files. Is this so? Any suggestions on the best approach for what I am trying to do?

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Erik Olson wrote on 9/25/2009, 9:39 AM

For now, my solution is either to use something other than DVDA, or render at 16mbps with Vegas 8. :(

I'm also curious if Vegas 9 will render your canon footage without re-compressing. Have you tried outputting as 16mbps AVCHD and seeing if you get the "No recompression required" message in the preview window? If you don't, the DVDA bug is probably a moot point as you'll end up with 16mbps from Vegas anyway.

Assuming you get past that, you could also use tsmuxer (no menus) or multiavchd (flakey) to create a Blu-Ray directory structure, and then imgburn to create and burn the .iso file. These are all free programs. They don't work as well as DVDA, but they do work.

SONY, Please fix DVDA!