Preparing a SD project for use on a PS3

svtdot wrote on 2/4/2010, 11:41 AM

It’s that newbie again.

I’m well pleased: having just finished my first project and the software didn’t hang or crash once. Whoopee there’s a first and it rendered quickly too.

Having burnt a DVD and played it on my PS3, I’ve realised I have missed a trick. Why burn a DVD with all the attendant risks of damage to the DVD when handling or storing, when I might be able to produce a project that I can save on my PS3 and watch when I want and without looking through hundreds of other DVDs.

I have spent some time in the forum files looking for advice on settings and not found anything. Can someone point me in the right direction?

Must I load the finished project onto a NAS server first? I have one.

What settings should I use and how do I get the finished project onto the PS3 without creating a DVD first, and the PS3 wont copy DVDs anyway.

This is an SD project and I’m using VMS 8 Platinum and DVD Architect 4.5. I would like to have menus in my project.

Thanks in advance

SVT

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Eugenia wrote on 2/4/2010, 12:27 PM

For widescreen SD: 854x480, 2.5 mbps. For 4:3 SD: 640x480, at 2 mbps. Obviously at the right frame rate: 25 or 29.97 fps. The rest is the same as here: http://eugenia.gnomefiles.org/2007/11/09/exporting-with-vegas-for-vimeo-hd/

svtdot wrote on 2/6/2010, 6:38 AM

Thanks Eugenia for your suggestion. I had not heard of Vimeo before and I have spent some time browsing the site. The community has some very talented people and viewing the various projects: there are lots of ideas and the quality of them is something to aspire to.

However my broadband connection is not so hot and even SD stuff stutters and the HD material is nigh-on unwatchable and I don’t think I’m ready yet to make my efforts that public yet, although it’s good to know that quality postings can be found, rather that the usual video sharing sites, which seem mainly to be rip-offs of other people’s work.

Without I’ve missed a point, using Vimeo does not help me with my objective of creating a menu driven project that I can play from the hard drive of my PS3.

Have you or anyone else got any pointers?

SVT

Eugenia wrote on 2/6/2010, 2:45 PM

You didn't read the whole article. The same way you export for Vimeo (with the changes I suggested), you export for the PS3, the XBoX360, and the AppleTV. They all read h.264 formats.