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Magnus. Thanks for the Info. I will certainly look into the possibilities of DVDLab. I also produce a lot of videos in HI def as Blu-ray. I don't think DVDLab handles Hi Def.

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I made same mistake, any suggestions on alternatives to Cineform that work?

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Roy, several Vegas users like TMPGEnc Authoring Works 4 and it does Blu-ray
There's a 14 day trial so you can see what you think of it.

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Hi

The only issue with TMPGEnc authoring and Blu-ray is it only supports Blu-ray with MPEG2 encoding, which isn't as efficient and can struggle with good HD footage.

I have an application I'm working on that will take the output from Vegas (or any other editing package) as Lagarith uncompressed AVI, and will convert to compliant AVCHD/AVCHD 2.0 or Blu-ray H264 using the x264 encoder, which I think tops all the others for quality, if not for speed. You can then use something like MultiAVCHD to create a Blu-ray disc. For those using 1080/50/60p it will also convert to interlaced 1080i or 720/50p using a good resizer. 720p from 1080p looks brilliant on Blu-ray. The best bit is all the software is available free.

Screen shot attached. If there is interested I'll package it up as a setup file and post it somewhere.

TMPGEnc authoring also uses the x264 encoder for H264/AVC, I can only think their commerical licensing of x264 doesn't extend to the newest builds that produce Blu-ray compliant H264, hence using MPEG2.

Regards

Phil

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Phil, thanks for the warning about TMPGEnc.
I'm not a user so I wasn't aware of the limitation.
Your application sounds interesting and I'm sure would be well-received by the Vegas community.

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I will dump vegas long before I dump Cineform. Its not a Cineform problem its a vegas problem.

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Phil. Your application sounds very good, are you by any chance referring to Aleesoft Easy Blu-ray creator.
I have tried the trial version and it is very good indeed and simple to use. I am not quite sure what it does though. Does it actually convert Standard definition files into HD DVD's. However it is not free and the trial has a watermark.

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Hi

No connection to Easy Blu-ray, that was just a name I made up for my application, which is free, it isn't a commercial application and has no watermarks or restrictions. My app just does the encoding to compliant AVCHD or Blu-ray formats using the x264 encoder. It doesn't upscale, but you could do that in Sony Vegas or other editing package if required then encode it.

Regards

Phil