Rendering Blu-Ray Project to Standard DVD...

Hello,

I have just upgraded from Sony Vegas Pro 9.0 to 11.0. With 9.0, I have rendered and burned several Blu-Ray projects to Standard DVDs as 1920x1080 HD isos that played fine on a Blu-Ray player. My bitrate was only 10Mbps and the quality was very good.

I was able to "fool" Sony Vegas as well as DVD Architect into thinking it was burning onto a Blu-Ray disc even though it was a standard DVD. Now, it seems, both programs complain if there's not an actual Blu-Ray in there. Is there any way around this? I found a work-around in that I can burn it to an ISO image and then use something like ImgBurn to burn the ISO file but I wonder why I can't do it in Vegas or DVDA anymore?

Rob Siegfried

Try using the "Legacy" disk drivers. Options, Preferences, CD Settings tab, check the "use Legacy" drivers. Worth a try. This has fixed a lot of odd burning problems for me in the past. It will force Vegas to bypass the Vegas drivers and use the ones that are mapped to the Windows system.

Steve

Win7 Pro X64 on Dell T3400, MultiTB SATA, 8GB RAM, nVidia FX 570, Vegas 10e (and 11) x64 DVDA 5.2(build 133) Sony HDR-CX550V

Interesting ... I'm happily burning lots of DVDs and BluRay with Sony DVD Architect 5.2 build 133. It is my preferred method of authoring disks. I have not installed the latest Build 135 (nervous).

I render my SVP 11 projects using the MainConcept codec for video only (creates a .mpg), then separate Dolby pro render (creates a .ac3, then bring those into DVDA.

Am I missing something? Did you mean that SVP 11 no longer can burn directly? That seems crazy, the menu options are still there ...

Steve

Win7 Pro X64 on Dell T3400, MultiTB SATA, 8GB RAM, nVidia FX 570, Vegas 10e (and 11) x64 DVDA 5.2(build 133) Sony HDR-CX550V