Hi

. . . . Clearly, you will need a BD writer rather than a DVD writer to burn the actual disc. . . .

Well actually you don't, providing your movie is less than 20 - 25 mins long you can burn a BD movie to standard DVD disc in a DVD burner as you can see from the images below:

They will play on a BD player.

John

Hi

. . . . Clearly, you will need a BD writer rather than a DVD writer to burn the actual disc. . . .

Well actually you don't, providing your movie is less than 20 - 25 mins long you can burn a BD movie to standard DVD disc in a DVD burner as you can see from the images below:

They will play on a BD player.

 

John

Hi John.  Yes I'd forgotten about the possibility of burning AVCHD to DVD but since the OP has clearly now expanded the detail in his question this does not seem to be his "problem".  (I think, however, your last sentence ought to say only on a BD player.)

@shubert, I'm not clear why you cannot simply export your finished footage, using the Burn screen.  I really don't see that Exporting to MPEG-II, prior to creating a DVD Image file (which is what you seem to say is your standard workflow) is any different, and is perhaps more time-consuming, than allowing VPX to export and create the Disc image in one go?  Are you concerned that the image may be in some way "faulty"?  The process which VPX uses is always to create and keep a folder of the exported files before creating the actual disc image.  If you want to "check" the finished result you can always do what I often do which is to "play the disc" using the files in that folder, which always has "DVD" in its name, to make clear what it is!  I use a player like PowerDVD to check the files and if they're what I expect, will use the separate Disc Image (.zip) file to create the finished disc, initially usually a DVDRW, again to check the final product, before creating a "production" DVD.

The procedure for BD production is exactly the same, except for choosing Blu-ray disc as the final medium.  VPX itself will then make the correct choice of output format etc.

Hi Jeff

. . . . I think, however, your last sentence ought to say only on a BD player. . . .

I should have included Playstations, X-Boxes and PC/Laptops with the correct software.  I use Nero Blu-Ray Player and can play BD on DVD using the DVD drive.

@ shubert

Like Jeff, I too am puzzled by your work flow.

You appear to be creating extra steps in  the process just so as you can check the video, when you could do this directly. 

I use rewriteable DVD's or BD's for checking the final video, not just on computer, but also on DVD or BD player and TV .  This also enables you to check all the menus function correctly with the remote control.

If further editting/correction is needed then I do this; then I rewrite to discs again for testing. 

Once I have a good 'image' on the rewriteable I use this as a master disc to create the final discs - copying using Nero. 

I always create 2 discs - a master disc and a 'user' disc on write once DVD's or BD's.  The rewriteables are then reused for testing the next project.

John