I'm wondering why such Bluray elementary stream rendertemplates are still available in Vegas

@3POINT Because those of us that still burn the occasional Blu-ray disc need them.

Newcomers to Vegas who want to burn a Blu-ray, what do they do with it? Try also to get DVD-A from somewhere, since Vegas doesn't support Disc-authoring anymore?

No, it's us older Vegas users who use them.

@Al_Korzonas it's not a good idea to resample 30p to 24p. It will not make your wedding video look more "cinematic" but likely more choppy or blurred, depending on the choosen resampling mode in Vegas. To achieve a cinematic look, you should have recorded directly in 24p with a 180 degree shutter.

Other issue is that the Bluray standard only accepts progressive at 24fps or interlaced at 30fps (i60). Since you recorded progressive with 30fps, you will lose quality when going to i60.

My personal view, forget about Bluray, render to mp4 with 1080p30 (the recorded resolution and framerate) and distribute that stream by YouTube or USB.

Thanks for the info about the 24fps. I burned my first test bluray using the 24fps .avc files and it looked good on my TV, although it's been years since I've made videos and my camera work was a bit shaky. I will look into a stabilization fx to make it more pleasant to watch some scenes, but it's not terrible, so if I can't reduce the shakiness, it's not the end of the world.

I don't trust any streaming service to be here in 50 years, so youtube is out. Also, I don't want youtube to have a copy of my daughter's wedding on their servers. I don't even trust any cloud provider... I have a private cloud behind my home firewall. So, ultimately, I do intend to burn a dozen Bluray disks to give to the couple and many family members, plus a few in my fire safe. Yes, I will probably also put the mp4s on USB flash drives too.

will allow me to combine the video and audio files for the preview before I burn

@Al_Korzonas Put both files in the same folder and with identical file names (other than the suffix) and when you add the avc file to DVDA it automatically brings in the audio file with it.

Also I find if I play the avc file with MPC-BE player I get the audio playing as well, as MPC automatically finds the audio file. That's with the audio in an ac3 file. I haven't tried with wav.

I think I tried .ac3 for audio and had problems. I ended up using a wav file for audio (.w64). That worked. My current problem is that my .avc file only contains 1/3 of the reception. I may have to split it into three files. The file size is 36,897,534 KB or 35 GB. I came back to the forum to look for file size limits and noticed a few additional responses to my question.

Thanks.

I do intend to burn a dozen Bluray disks to give to the couple and many family members, plus a few in my fire safe. Yes, I will probably also put the mp4s on USB flash drives too.

They all do have a Bluray player? I never had one and I even do not know anybody who has one.