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hdv mpeg with vegas 7

 

 


howardst
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Mar 15, 2008, 12:21 PM

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Hi. I am using vegas 7. I am working with m2t on the timeline. I use 1080-60i for my project settings and also for the template during the mpeg2 encoding. I select save as Mpeg2 with template hdv 1080-60i. I am not sure if I should de select the stretch video to fill output frame size(do not letterbox). I chose to de select it. My m2t files are from my fx1. I encoded this, and a one hour 20 minute video resulted in an mpeg that was 14.5 gig in size. I also recieved what appears to be an m2t file ext. My two questions are: Is the 14.5 gig mpeg2 about right? If I tried to burn this mpeg2 to bluray would it be an hd video? I ask this because i thought the resulting mpeg would be much larger than this for some reason. I am using a core two duo machine, and it took three hours to render my project to this template. I realize these are tech questions probably more suited for another forum like Mr Troxels, but i know some of you are doing this, and any help would be great. have a great weekend shooting!!

Howard
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Kenneth
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Mar 15, 2008, 2:18 PM

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Re: [howardst] hdv mpeg with vegas 7 [In reply to] Can't Post

If you are making it for Blu-Ray the 14.5 GB is about right. The HDV format records at 25 M/bit per second. Blu-Ray has an even higher bit rate so you are essentially just converting the video from one format to another with little compression.

The original files were probably around 17 GB. So that would probably be your maximum file for the Blu-Ray disc. You could probably encode it at a higher bit rate and get a larger file size but that would be pointless as the HDV file format is already compressed down to 25 M/bit per second.
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JC/DV
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Mar 15, 2008, 10:41 PM

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Re: [howardst] hdv mpeg with vegas 7 [In reply to] Can't Post

What bitrate did you encode at? 14.5 sounds just a little low. Just encode it to 1440x1080 - Best - 25,000,000 bps - 16x9 display and you won't have to do the stretch to fill output.

Yes it is HD video.

Yes you can burn that to BluRay, but you'll need something to author that, such as Nero with the hd-dvd and bluray plugin. I've made several posts about it.

Jerome
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