Writing AVCHD to standard DVD

videogr5 wrote on 6/15/2009, 2:29 PM

I was delighted to see Vegas 9 would write AVCHD to standard DVD from the timeline . However for some reason when you choose to write as AVCHD 1920 etc it has too large a volume to write to a 4.7 Standard DVD . You can change the export settings to reduce this but that defeats the object and is different to the instructions by Sony. I can transfer the file into Pinnacle Ultimate and have none of this trouble. Any forum member help with this ? It would be appreciated Thanks

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videogr5 wrote on 6/15/2009, 11:29 PM

Thanks John for your comprehensive reply. I just had one or two queries. This does not match with Sony's comments Answer ID 4415 under 'Burning an AVCHD disc in Vegas' ? There is no mention of using Architect. I would be interested in your comments on this. Should the Timeline be rendered in Vegas using Smart render or in Architect ? Thanks once more for your help Gordon (UK)

JohnnyRoy wrote on 6/16/2009, 6:39 AM

> I can transfer the file into Pinnacle Ultimate and have none of this trouble.

What exactly are you trying to do?

(A) Burn a DVD that will play on any set-top DVD Player?

- or -

(B) Burn a Blu-ray disc to DVD media that only plays on Blu-ray players?

If (A) forget it. Vegas doesn't burn DVD's. You use DVD Architect for that.

If (B) then I don't know what Pinnacle is doing but if they are creating a Blu-ray disc on DVD media that is longer than 20 - 30 min., they must be lowering the bit-rate to 8-9Mbps to get it to fit. The laws of physics don't change for Pinnacle. You can only get 4.7GB on a DVD. You can do the same in Vegas Pro. Just use the Blu-ray 1440x1080-60i, 8 Mbps video stream template or the Blu-ray 1920x1080-60i, 10 Mbps video stream template.

~jr

videogr5 wrote on 6/16/2009, 7:01 AM

Thanks for the comments so far John and Johnny it is (B) I have not used Pinnacle for anything longer than 8 minutes but that method is extremely slow. However today I have successfully made an image file in full AVCHD in Vegas 9 and the made an AVCHD disc in Vegas 9 on standard DVD in excellent quality. Thats good but I was unable to use the image file in Architect which says the iso file is not required type! Any ideas on why ? Gordon

JohnnyRoy wrote on 6/16/2009, 7:43 AM

> Thats good but I was unable to use the image file in Architect which says the iso file is not required type! Any ideas on why ?

Yes, the iso file is a disc image. DVD Architect wants media assets so that it can create it's own disc image. If you want to create assets for DVD Architect, then you want to render your video with the Sony AVC type using one of the Blu-ray AVCHD templates and drop that into DVD Architect.

So you can make a disc with Vegas, or you can make a disc with DVD Architect, but DVD Architect cannot do anything with the disc image you made in Vegas because it is already a "finished" disc.

~jr

videogr5 wrote on 6/16/2009, 7:56 AM

Thanks Johnny Just to be sure are you saying to render the project in Architect ? not in Vegas OR putting a rendered file from Vegas in Architect Gordon

JohnnyRoy wrote on 6/16/2009, 3:08 PM

Rendering in Vegas and dropping the rendered file into DVD Architect. This gives you more control over the render settings.

~jr

videogr5 wrote on 6/17/2009, 4:48 AM

Thanks all for very useful help gordon