Burning my first HD disc question

[geokr]

Someone here said that there is a learning to video editing - boy are they right!

I just finished my first HD project and used Vegas Pro and now have to burn it to Blu-Ray. The manual says I have two choices - 15 Mbps AVC or 25 Mbps MPEG-2. Seems that 25 Mbps would produce better video though a larger file but this was shot in AVCHD. Is there a noticeable difference in the visual quality of either one? Is the format going to matter to the Blu-Ray player? After all this money and work I'd like to see the best. Nothing in the manual on these questions.

 

[Jon Shaw]

They both would be similar due to compression being better with AVCHD compared to MPEG. A quick test will give you the answer. Another way is to make a H264 file 1920x1080 and then dump that straight onto a Blu Ray, the quality may be a fraction worse but the process should be quicker and I doubt that you would notice the difference.

Jon