Why is DVDA compressing my blu ray video?

pilsburypie wrote on 12/30/2013, 5:59 PM
Now I'm pretty sure I have rendered my footage in Vegas to a DVDA friendly format, but it insists on re-rendering and taking hour upon hour to do so.

I've used the Sony AVC 1080 50i template 16mbs and the Dolby AC3 audio template to render out from my original 1080 50p footage. Both avc and mp4 have the same lengthy re-rendering issue. Project is 1.5 hours long and around 12GB.

On a side note why is my Twixtor slow motion looking so bad as interlaced when it looks great rendered to 1080 50p?

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musicvid10 wrote on 12/30/2013, 7:07 PM
Using dvda Studio?
pilsburypie wrote on 12/31/2013, 1:05 AM
DVDA 5.2. I have held off upgrading to 6 as I've read it has issues.
musicvid10 wrote on 12/31/2013, 1:35 AM
If you use a bluray video template and separate pcm or ac3 audio, Architect will not recompress.
vkmast wrote on 12/31/2013, 1:41 AM
Any help from here?
pilsburypie wrote on 12/31/2013, 8:59 AM
Thanks for the replies.

I am using a Sony AVC bluray template 1080 50i 16mbs and an separate AC3 file. I have tried both .avc and .mp4 formats but they are both the same - "require recompression as they are not supported file formats" Strange as I have read they are. File size can't be an issue as the main video is a mere 12GB.

The link is interesting and the only thing I can see that might be confusing DVDA is that the Vegas render is 16mbs but the DVDA properties are 18mbs by default which I left as they were. Not able to test today but do you really think this could be the problem
musicvid10 wrote on 12/31/2013, 10:04 AM
No, that's not the problem.
Check the other Architect properties, and post the files' properties using MediaInfo if you don't find anything.
pilsburypie wrote on 1/3/2014, 9:01 AM
One thing I have noticed from media info is a reversal of what it says are the frame rates and original frame rates. The original frame rate should be 50fps and the actual frame rate (what I rendered to) should be 25fps. Anyhow, interested in your thoughts:

General
Complete name : B:\Videos\HD Raw footage 2013\2013 bluray.mp4
Format : MPEG-4
Format profile : Base Media / Version 2
Codec ID : mp42
File size : 9.71 GiB
Duration : 1h 31mn
Overall bit rate mode : Variable
Overall bit rate : 15.2 Mbps
Encoded date : UTC 2013-12-30 12:53:22
Tagged date : UTC 2013-12-30 12:53:22

Video
ID : 1
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : High@L4.0
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames : 2 frames
Codec ID : avc1
Codec ID/Info : Advanced Video Coding
Duration : 1h 31mn
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 15.2 Mbps
Maximum bit rate : 16.0 Mbps
Width : 1 920 pixels
Height : 1 080 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate mode : Constant
Frame rate : 50.000 fps
Original frame rate : 25.000 fps
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Interlaced
Scan order : Top Field First
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.147
Stream size : 9.70 GiB (100%)
Language : English
Encoded date : UTC 2013-12-30 12:53:22
Tagged date : UTC 2013-12-30 12:53:22