Settings for best quality on Blu-ray

Shine wrote on 12/1/2009, 10:05 AM

I have only little experience with Blu-ray burning.
I want to make the best possible quality from tape (raw material) to Blu-ray.
Tape is shot with Sony HDR-HC9 in HDV 1440x1080 60i.

Would be grateful for suggestions from you guys with more experience than me.

Comments

Steve Grisetti wrote on 12/2/2009, 5:43 AM

Rather than using your video directly from your camcorder, I'd recommend you bring the video into Vegas first and then export from Vegas as BluRay-ready video. Then you'll know you're using the best possible format for DVD Architect.

eightyeightkeys wrote on 12/27/2009, 11:00 AM

Does Vegas Movie Studio also have the preset to render as "BluRay-Ready Video ?"

GFFmatt wrote on 1/13/2010, 1:32 PM

I need to burn a blu-ray disc also.

How do I render for best quality in Vegas?

Also, I noticed that Architect isn't recognizing that I have a blank blu-ray disc in the drive...it's reading as it is a normal DVD. I know I'm missing something here.

I've got a blu-ray drive, Vegas pro 9.

any advice is appreciated!

Pete Siamidis wrote on 1/13/2010, 5:37 PM

There seem to be two types for blu-ray output. In Vegas under the "Sony AVC" type, there is:

AVCHD 1920X1080 - 60i
Blu-ray 1920x1080 - 60i 16mbps video stream

The video specs on both seem to be identical, each is listed as:

"Video: 29.970 fps, 1920x1080 Upper field first, YUV, 16 Mbps
Pixel Aspect Ratio: 1.000"

I presume this means either one can be used for blu-ray use, but I'm not really sure if there are any subtle differences. The main different I can see is on the audio side, where the 'blu-ray' template provides none so you can render your audio separately any way you want later, whereas the 'avchd' template spits out audio in this format:

Audio: 192 Kbps, 48,000 Hz, 24 Bit, Stereo, AC3

The 'avchd' choice puts video and audio both into a single .m2ts file. The 'bluray' template spits out only video in a .avc file.