Blue Ray vs DVD - what to do?

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bbinnard

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I'd like to show my GH1 videos at full HD on my 42" HDTV. So my Plan A was to edit the videos with Vegas and save them to a flash drive and then play them on my TV via my PS3 game console. This works fine.

But Plan A has no way to do Chapters, menus, or any of the nice user-controlled stuff you can do with a normal DVD. So Plan B was to use the DVD Architect product to assemble multiple videos into a single playable presentation controlled by a menu.

But DVD format video is 720, not 1080. So Plan B can't show full HD resolution video on my TV.

This leaves Plan C which is to use DVD Architect to create real Blue Ray format output. But to actually burn a Blue Ray disk I need to buy a $200 Blue Ray burner for my PC and a stack of blank Blue Ray disks.

What happens if I put the Blue Ray output files onto a regular DVD disk? Are Blue Ray players able to to recognize that format when it is on regular DVD media?
 
Go with an AVCHD disc. It's blu-ray format, but burned onto a regular DVD. It's exactly the same as a blu-ray disc, just using cheaper media and with the size restrictions of the smaller DVD-R disc size (meaning, you can get about 20 minutes on a single-layer disc, and 40 minutes on a dual-layer disc).
 
Barry I've never heard of this...plays in bluray player but burned with normal dvd drive? Can DVD Studio Pro/Compressor make these? I have Final Cut Studio 3.
 
on ps3 you can make a java menu and play avchd files, but why the menus if it's for your viewing?.

what difference would it make if you make your menus or use the ps3 interface?
 
Great feedback - thanks

Great feedback - thanks

Go with an AVCHD disc. It's blu-ray format, but burned onto a regular DVD.

I was not aware this format existed. I don;t have any of the software mentioned in the WikiPedia article but I'll see if I can get some.


on ps3 you can make a java menu and play avchd files, but why the menus if it's for your viewing?.

I've not seen anything about how to do this. But I'll do some research. I do photography on trips/tours of foreign countries (examples at website below). I plan on making videos comprised of short video clips & still images and I expect I'll have one such composite video for each location. So having a menu to select locations would be convenient.
 
bbinnard said:
Go with an AVCHD disc. It's blu-ray format, but burned onto a regular DVD.

I was not aware this format existed. I don;t have any of the software mentioned in the WikiPedia article but I'll see if I can get some.
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DVD Architect 5.x can master AVCHD disks too.
 
Sneaky little devils....Since I have Vegas Movie Studio (Platinum) I only get DVD Architect Studio 4.5d which does not support AVCHD format burning. Only the Pro version does, which you can get only wiht the Pro version of Vegas.

It's sort of surprising that Sonyy would go to all the trouble to make a "special" version of DVD Architect since they give it away free with Vegas. I guess they are trying to hook people like me into purchasing Vegas Pro. It won't work in my case.
 
I'm wondering if I author a Bluray content from within Encore to a Bluray image and as long as the image size is less than 4G, i can burn it on a DVDR disc... would that be playable on a Bluray player?
 
vnguyen972 said:
I'm wondering if I author a Bluray content from within Encore to a Bluray image and as long as the image size is less than 4G, i can burn it on a DVDR disc... would that be playable on a Bluray player?
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On some. AVCHD playback is not yet 100% bulletproof across the board. Stick to bitrate below 18 Mbit/s, use AVC instead of MPEG-2, use simple menus.
 
Cranky said:
On some. AVCHD playback is not yet 100% bulletproof across the board. Stick to bitrate below 18 Mbit/s, use AVC instead of MPEG-2, use simple menus.
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Somehow I did not manage to get this working on PS3. i.e. BlueRay format from Encore and then burned on a normal DVD.
What is the exact workflow / settings you have to use in Encore to get this done? How exactly was the BlueRay output from Encore burned on DVD?

Instead, I have been using
[FONT=&quot]multiAVCHD http://multiavchd.deanbg.com/tutorial.php[/FONT]
Is freeware and works fine on my PS3. But ofcourse the userinterface is nowhere nearly as nice as nice as something like Encore.
 
Another solution

Another solution

Try "Total Media Extreme" from ArcSoft. You can author AVCHD to DVD with menus with their software.

It works very well.
 
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