Use Verbatim.

Their one of the few that make DL inkjet printables and the disks are of good enough quality to be used for HD DVD's. In fact it's one of the few disks that will actually work as a double layer dvd.

I get them here (but I'm in Canada):

https://www.blankmedia.ca/proddetail3.asp?id=652

I've looked at dozens of posts in many forums over the past year, and the almost-unanimous consensus is Verbatim for dual layer. However, I don't know which media code (which as was pointed out yesterday is what really matters).

Perhaps someone can provide the exact media code, and a link to Meritline, Supermediastore, or elsewhere.

I use DL for really long TV captures (I capture the Masters golf tournament every year for a friend, and the Sunday coverage is close to four hours, even after removing commercials). I am planning to use it for putting HD content on a DVD, if I can ever find a post that tells me how to do this (I think that AVCHD on DVD is the way to go, but apparently this cannot be done within Vegas, although I think someone said they did it by creating an ISO somehow and then burning that with Nero -- I'm still researching).

The ones I use (in the above link) are of good quality. When run though DVD Identifier they come out as:


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Unique Disc Identifier : [DVD+R-DL:MKM-001-000]
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Disc & Book Type : [DVD+R DL] - [DVD+R DL]
Manufacturer Name : [Mitsubishi Kagaku Media]
Manufacturer ID : [MKM]
Media Type ID : [001]
Product Revision : [Not Specified]
Blank Disc Capacity : [4,173,824 Sectors = 8.55 GB (7.96 GiB)]
Recording Speeds : [2.4x]
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[ DVD Identifier V5.0.1 - http://DVD.Identifier.CDfreaks.com ]
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The stamp on the disk is: PV78F6M3979212X1

>> I am planning to use it for putting HD content on a DVD, if I can ever find a post that tells me how to do this <<

I start out with HDV but I guess you could start with AVHDC. Render in Vegas with Blu-Ray template. Author Blu-Ray ISO in DVDA. Use Nero to burn ISO to DL-DVD. You have to make sure that your video is short enough to fit on the disc (around 44 min at 25mbps?).

Agree, Verbatim bought from a reputable supplier are the only ones that give you a chance they'll work.
The few DL DVDs I've made worked OK in both my players however given all the horror stories around I use them only for archiving footage from my EX1. As you noted you have to burn these at slow speeds so to make 100 copies is quite a slow and expensive process. We just shelved the idea and split long perfromances over two DVD. This is cheaper and we know we'll have no issues with player compatibility.

Bob.

I start out with HDV but I guess you could start with AVHDC. Render in Vegas with Blu-Ray template. Author Blu-Ray ISO in DVDA. Use Nero to burn ISO to DL-DVD. You have to make sure that your video is short enough to fit on the disc (around 44 min at 25mbps?). Thank you, thank you! I'm using HDV, so your recipe should work perfectly for me.

However, now that I've thought about it for a minute, this is the BMD (or some such acronym) and not the AVCHD on DVD, right? I guess this works well, but without menus?

If you want menus then the best bet would probably be Ulead MF6. Create your M2TS in Vegas then import to MF6. I have done DL dvd's (verbatim's) with menus in MF6 without too many issues. If you set it all up properly then MF6 will not recompress.

Thread got hi-jacked, but I do appreciate those who did reply regarding the original question!

To also answer your original question, i use verbatim dl discs get the +r version and set the book type as dvd rom. I always burn using IMG BURN as it gives you options as to where to place the layer break.

not had one returned unplayable.

TY do not make dual layer, but verbatim are superb.

Sorry Jay for taking the thread off on a slight tangent, although I thought it was useful to talk about what situations people use dual layer. There has been a LOT of interest in using DVD for HD, given the continuing high cost of BD blanks.

Hopefully I provided a good answer to you (use Verbatim) and was able to get (from blink) the ID code for the media you should use.

Thanks to everyone for help on how to author HD on DVD. I'll be putting that to good use when my new toy arrives.

I use Verbatim exclusively for single and dual layer DVD's

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Not a problem, John. Thanks for your input.