"Does anyone know the best way to create an AVCHD DVD from a M2TS rendered file from Vegas?" I, too, would love see some detailed instructions on how to produce an AVCHD DVD from DVDA.

I've been able to produce AVCHD DVD's from Nero & Cyberlink that play just fine on my Samsung BDP1600 player, but the DVDA produced discs get a loading error.

...Jerry

Thanks Rob & Jerry.

Jerry, how did you create an AVCHD disc using Nero? I only have Nero Essentials that came bundled with my DVD writer, but (as described above) I tried using burning a DVD data disk using Nero using the output from TSMuxer. Does the full version of Nero come with an AVCHD disc creation feature that I'm missing?

Thanks,
Chris

"Jerry, how did you create an AVCHD disc using Nero?"Nero Vision->Make DVD->AVCHD->follow the prompts.

I have the full version of Nero. Don't know whether Nero Vison comes with the bundled version or not.

Good Luck,
...Jerry

Thanks Jerry. The version of Nero Vision I have (V4 Essentials) doesn't seem to have an AVCHD option. I'm a bit loathed to upgrade Nero when DVD Architect should really do this!!

@chrisf
Does anyone know the best way to create an AVCHD DVD from a M2TS rendered file from Vegas?

@amendegw
I, too, would love see some detailed instructions on how to produce an AVCHD DVD from DVDA.

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DVDA is useless when it comes to creating AVCHD for DVD disk. It also wants to re-encode my gorgeous 5.1 surround sound produced by my Sony XR500V AVCHD camcorder.

You guys need to try multiAVCHD. Go here and read first post and download all necessary tools. All tools are free.

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=143744

I personally don’t use DVDA any more neither for DVD nor AVCHD/Blu-ray authoring. I use Womble EasyDVD for DVD and multiAVCHD for AVCHD/BD authoring.

"I personally don’t use DVDA any more neither for DVD nor AVCHD/Blu-ray authoring. I use Womble EasyDVD for DVD and multiAVCHD for AVCHD/BD authoring."

There are NO issues with blu ray authoring in DVDa. I use it to author blu ray everyday.

Let me guess... you're using the studio encoder for your 5.1 work? The studio encoder does not work with Blu Ray. Use the pro encoder and you will not re-compress.

One other note.... If you're rendering with the standard M2TS template (which includes the 5.1 sound), that template uses the studio encoder. Instead render a M2TS without audio and then render a separate AC3 file with the pro encoder. Import these to DVDa and it will not re-compress anything.

@Rob Franks
There are NO issues with blu ray authoring in DVDa.

Yes, there are for me. Like I said in my previous post DVDA wants to re-encode my gorgeous 5.1 surround sound produced by my Sony XR500V AVCHD camcorder regardless what project I create, BD or AVCHD.

@Rob Franks
Let me guess... you're using the studio encoder for your 5.1 work?

I don’t re-encode neither audio nor video. I copy MTS files from XR500V hard drive to my PC into some folder. Then drag that folder with multiple MTS files into multiAVCHD. multiAVCHD asks me if I want to join all those clips and I choose yes. multiAVCHD combines them into one M2TS file with perfect video/audio sync. Authored AVCHD projects on DVD disks or Blu-ray projects on BD-RE/BD-R disks play perfectly on my PS3 and JVC stand-alone player.

"There are NO issues with blu ray authoring in DVDa."I guess I wasn't very clear in my replies... my authoring problems related to producing standard AVCHD DVDs from DVDA - not blu-ray. I can produce standard AVCHD disks from Nero & Cyberlink without problem.

...Jerry

The DVDA 5 is not able to produce AVCHD-DVDs, since an AVCHD-DVD has a slighlty different structure, compared with BDMD-structures used for BD-R. So, if you wish to generate AVCHD-DVDs, you have to use other tools but not the DVDA5.

What you can try is to create BDMV-DVDs with the DVDA, simply by buring an iso generated with the DVDA5. But you have to try if your blu ray player is able to playback such a structure - not many player will do so. If you try that use AVC - mpeg2-HD generates issues for a lot of player due to constrains in the loader (or you reduce the data rate of mpeg2).

I have not yet been able to do this, but I have received a fair amount of advice. Let me try to summarize this in order to try to help the initial poster, and also see if someone else has a better "cookbook" for putting AVCHD onto a high-def DVD5 or DVD9 disc.

First, here is a "cookbook" for doing this using Movie Factory 6:

How to author MPEG-2 to AVCHD on DVD5

Then there is this one, although I'm not sure whether it involves recompressing the AVCHD to MPEG-2 or not:

Authoring Blu-ray with menus on legacy DVD - Yes you can!

This excellent post by Laurence may be of some help:

Question on AVCHD blu ray disk and PS3

He does an excellent job explaining away the confusion about the difference between the "AVCHD disc" that Vegas creates and the AVCHD disc that you really want to create which, apparently, requires Moviefactory or some other workflow.

If anyone reading this has a concise, up-to-date, simple workflow for creating DVD5/DVD9 AVCHD discs that use menus and will play on most players, I'd sure love to see it.

@johnmeyer
First, here is a "cookbook" for doing this using Movie Factory 6:

Johnmeyer,

I created that guide last (2008) year. Here is my original post:
http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?p=13065746#post13065746

But you don’t need it any more. multiAVCHD will do everything for you.

Tom’s instructions from dvinfo.net forum are still valid if you want to create AVCHD-on-DVD with all bells and whistles (animated thumbnails, menu with video background, transitions, etc).

In 2007 I made a short AVCHD HD file on a DVD disc that plays in a Sony Blu-ray player, but nothing else.

Strangely, I was never able to make another DVD that worked even in the same Blu-ray player. I thought I used one of the presets to burn it directly in Vegas (not DVDA) but each time I tried it again it failed.

It also took hours to render out a minute of AVCHD from the timeline.

created that guide last (2008) year. Here is my original post:Many thanks, but let me make sure I understand what you are saying. I think you are saying that this program:

multiAVCHD

is all I need. Is that correct? And, if so, what/how do you render out of Vegas (both video and audio) to feed to this program? I can probably figure it out eventually, but if you could let me know that would be great.

In Vegas you can render multiplexed .m2ts file using SonyAVC codec and AVCHD template. You can also render elementary streams using SonyAVC codec and Blu-ray template.

Then you need to install AviSynth, ffdshow, Haali Media Splitter, and multiAVCHD. All free programs. You can load multiplexed file, or elementary streams, even external subtitles into multiAVCHD. There is a lot of info on this page in the first post:
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=143744

You can search and download other tools from here:
http://www.videohelp.com/tools

multiAVCHD doesn't produce animated menus as of yet, may be in the future, but I don't care about that as long as it doesn't re-encode my compliant video/audio shot with XR500V.