Using AVC media for BluRay projects?

2G wrote on 7/6/2009, 8:20 PM
Has anyone had any experience with importing AVC media (from the Sony AVC renderer in Vegas) into BluRay projects? I have been using the MainConcept m2v renderer for my BluRay media with no problem. But I know that AVC is typically better quality than the mpg2-based m2v format. So I decided to try a project with AVC media instead. After importing the media, DVDA went totally unstable. It would crash, hang, tell me it was out of memory, and several other errors. Completely unpredictable and erratic. With one or two media clips, it would preview ok. But I never could get all of the media imported and get it to play. And the BD wasn't even close to capacity. It was somewhere around 9GB for all of the media.

While trying to get it to work, I tried starting with a clean project. I created a video playlist and simply tried to drag the AVCs into the playlist. It hung a couple of times and crashed with Windows phone-home msg.

I finally gave up and re-rendered back in the old m2v format to get the project out. But I'd still like to go to AVC media.

So first question is... does DVDA actually support imported AVC media? If so, has anybody else had the problems I encountered? (I'm on DVDA 5.0b)

Thanks.

Comments

Lou van Wijhe wrote on 7/7/2009, 1:28 PM
I didn't have exactly the same problem (see http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/forums/ShowMessage.asp?ForumID=22&MessageID=659116) but using AVC isn't something I would consider until Sony gets all bugs sorted out.

Lou
blink3times wrote on 7/12/2009, 12:34 PM
"So first question is... does DVDA actually support imported AVC media? If so, has anybody else had the problems I encountered? (I'm on DVDA 5.0b)"

Yes.... and without issue.

What are your avc settings? What are your audio settings?
2G wrote on 7/17/2009, 8:30 PM
I'm glad you're not having problems. But there are now other threads on this forum with the exact same problem, always with AVC media. (See the Buffer-underrun thread that's currently active) One person said Sony even acknowledged the bug and said the fix was to re-render the media in DVDA.

I'm not talking about setting the DVDA project settings to AVC. i'm talking about importing AVC rendered media rendered from Vegas. I'm simply using the BluRay template in the Sony AVC renderer that is shipped with Vegas 9. Maybe it's a dumb assumption, but I would think with a name like BluRay template for an AVC renderer from Sony, it ought to render the media such that it doesn't crash DVDA.

IMHO, there should never be any AVC or audio settings that should cause DVDA to completely crash with a Windows program failure message.
macas wrote on 7/20/2009, 1:17 AM
I am having the exact same problem I think! Mine wont render a 7 min project with the AVC template. It hangs at 19%. Will complete in Mpeg2, but I cant get a clean video and audio, (i.e) it jerks every 10 seconds or so.

So annoying!

Any fixes?
macas wrote on 7/20/2009, 3:32 AM
Update have been able to render an avc project by altering ram settings to 750 mb. But some video appears black. Possibly still photos I've included. Yet to watch theblu Ray finished disk. Will keep you posted