Sony AVC templates and DVDA

TeetimeNC wrote on 2/2/2010, 4:22 AM
I've posted this question to SCS technical support but haven't yet received a response. Peryaps someone here knows the answer.

DVDA help identifies a number of compliant Blu-ray compliant AVC formats that you can create if you are using an application other than Sony Vegas:

720x480 29.970 interlaced 4:3
720x480 29.970 interlaced 16:9
720x576 25 interlaced 4:3
720x576 25 interlaced 16:9
1280x720 29.970 interlaced 16:9
1280x720 50 interlaced 16:9
1280x720 24.000 interlaced 16:9
1280x720 23.976 interlaced 16:9
1440x1080 29.970 16:9
1440x1080 25 16:9
1440x1080 24.000 16:9
1440x1080 23.976 16:9
1920x1080 29.970 16:9
1920x1080 25 16:9
1920x1080 24.000 16:9
1920x1080 23.976 16:9

The implication to me was if I could produce compliant AVC media for DVDA in, let's say, Premier, I should also be able to produce compliant media in Vegas. But this doesn't seem to be the case.

Specifically, all attempts to produce compliant (i.e., no recompress) 1280x720 29.970 16:9 AVC media in Vegas have not worked for me. So my questions are:

1. Why doesn't this work in Vegas, and
2. More importantly, why doesn't SCS provide Vegas AVC templates for all of the blu-ray compliant formats?

Jerry

Comments

Rob Franks wrote on 2/2/2010, 5:01 AM
Because they don't have to?

Your complaint and mine (with regard to DTS not being recognized) are very much the same. I find it a little irritating on how DVDa is so extremely tough on what it calls "compliant" and meanwhile a large part of the Blu Ray spec is not quite supported at all.

Seems to me very much like a half-in/half-out scenario if I ever saw one. I'm HOPING that this sort of thing is just simply growing pains and we'll see blu ray support in a more defined detail on the next version because I like working with this program......[fingers crossed]
TeetimeNC wrote on 2/2/2010, 5:25 AM
Rob, you would think SCS would be leading the industry in Blu-ray support since it is Sony's baby, eh?

One thing that would be really helpful in DVDA is to be able to determine why a video isn't compliant. It is frustrating to render a video that appears to exactly meet the Blu-ray properties that DVDA documents, but still gets flagged as not compliant. What is it about the video that fails to be compliant?

Jerry