Vegas Pro 21 slide show settings

ChasMc wrote on 2/14/2025, 7:52 PM

This is my first slideshow using just still pictures. I made the slideshow with audio on Vegas Pro 21. In the system properties I still had it setup for video., upper field first, etc.

I don't know if I should change the properties to something specific now. Preview window is set on 1920x1080 60i

I want to put it on a Blu-ray disc. 1920x1080. Now I want to render it, but not sure on which template to use.

 

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john_dennis wrote on 2/15/2025, 12:22 AM

@ChasMc If you're absolutely, positive that you will never use the files on the internet, (no one ever is) then start with these Project Properties:

and render with these settings for a Video Elementary Stream:

and these settings for an Audio Elementary Stream:

Disclaimer

  • I'm not getting into an AC3 discussion with Vegas 21 at this late stage of Blu-ray.
  • I used PCM audio a lot when AC3 was the mode 'o day.

If you think you might stream the files someday, you might consider using one of the Blu-ray-legal progressive formats such as 1920x1080-23.976p or 1280x720-59.94p. All are listed in this link:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blu-ray

ChasMc wrote on 2/15/2025, 9:07 AM

Thanks John. These are my own personal pictures and will be used for personal purposes only.

The audio selections are all MP3's that are royalty free for personal use only.

I've used AC3 for Most of all my videos. I use wav for just my Musical videos, so having MP3's as my source audio, does it make a big difference in which audio to render with?

john_dennis wrote on 2/15/2025, 12:42 PM

@ChasMc asked: "I use wav for just my Musical videos, so having MP3's as my source audio, does it make a big difference in which audio to render with?"

It depends on how you author your Blu-ray project. MP3 and AC3 are both lossy formats. WAV is lossless. You could save one generation of encoding loss by passing WAV to your authoring software, but...