Creating a Blu-Ray from TV Shows

[dbanimal]

I record HD shows from my DVR to PC using CapDVHS. I have edited out commercials and bad frames and am now trying to burn them to Blu-Ray. I'm using Vegas Pro 10 and have 4 shows ready to render in one project. Here's a bit of information about them:

Each show is approximately 4.4 GB in size
Size is 1920x1080i
Aspect ratio is 16:9
Frame Rate is 29.97 fps
Bit Rate is 25 Mbps

Audio is 5.1 surround at 48 KHz

My Blu-ray options in Vegas are 1920x1080-24p, 25Mbps
1920x1080-50i, 25Mbps
=Blu-ray 1920x1080-60i, 25Mbps
and a bunch of 1440x1080 options. I attempted to render using a couple of the 1920 options and the way it was going it looked like it could take many hours...if not a day or two (at 1% it was showing 9 hours and climbing) and my processor is running at 100%.

Is this to be expected or is there a much quicker way to render this project??

PC specs:
3.2GHz P4 processor
4 GB RAM
6 TB Hard drive storage space
Windows XP Pro SP3
Blu-ray burner
HD graphics card

Thanks in advance!

[Baldrick]

Sounds a bit much. You could try a free avchd/blu-ray software and see how fast it is. Like avchdcoder, D2MP, multiavchd, freemake video converter.

And this is not any blu-ray ripping related. Moving you our conversion section.

[dbanimal]

And this is not any blu-ray ripping related. Moving you our conversion section.

Sorry, I wasn't sure which forum to post this in!

What do you mean by "You could try a free avchd/blu-ray software and see how fast it is." See how fast what is?

[hech54]

What do you mean by "You could try a free avchd/blu-ray software and see how fast it is." See how fast what is?

Read Baldrick's post again carefully.

[tbone8]

I have found Vegas rendering time to be MUCH longer than any other software I have used. I think the quality is there, but it is just a ridiculous amount of time. Of course, Vegas reencodes as opposed to muxing, so I guess that is to be expected.

[jman98]

What do you mean by "You could try a free avchd/blu-ray software and see how fast it is." See how fast what is?

Not really understanding how you are missing the point here, but since you are maybe it would be better to say it differently.

If you use a free tool like tsMuxer, multiAVCHD, etc to make your BluRay disc then it won't re-encode anything. You may find that it gives acceptable results since you are using the video EXACTLY as recorded without changes. You should probably try burning to an erasable BD disc though as there is always some chance that your BluRay player may be fussy about anything produced by a free tool and you may have to do a few burns to get something working.

[dbanimal]

OK, I got it now. I completely misunderstood. I was somehow thinking I would use one of those options but then the results getting used in Vegas.

I'm going to try rendering on one of my other PC's with a dual core and see if that makes any difference in the length of time. I guess I could always start a render before I go to bed and let it run all night but I'm not too keen on the idea of having my processor run at 100% that entire time.

[rr6966]

For hidef, you probably will need a good quad core processor. I work with alot of hidef files, and long since gave up on my old dual core, can't imagine using a P4

[thymej]

You should really try what jman98 said.

Use tsMuxer to create a BlyRay disc folder structure then burn to a R/W disc. No re-encode so you will not lose any quality. Remuxing will be done within minuets not hours like an encoder will do with HD with quality settings.

[dbanimal]

WOW!! I tried rendering a video clip (25 minutes long) in high settings on my P4 system and dual core system and there was a substantial difference between the two on how long it took. Clearly the P4 is NOT the way to go (as rr6966 indicated).

I would use tsMuxer but I want to be able to burn multiple HD shows in one project (to be able to come close to filling the Blu-ray disc), and I want to add menus and submenus using DVD Architect Pro.

[dbanimal]

For hidef, you probably will need a good quad core processor. I work with alot of hidef files, and long since gave up on my old dual core, can't imagine using a P4

What processor do you use and how long does it usually take to render a project?