
Discs using the DVD-Video specification require a DVD drive and an MPEG-2 decoder (e.g., a DVD player, or a computer DVD drive with a software DVD player). DVD-Video was the dominant consumer home video format in Asia, North America, Europe, and Australia in the 2000s until it was supplanted by the high-definition Blu-ray Disc. Other logo used from 1997–2001 (although some DVDs from 2001–2003 and some pirated DVDs made after 2001 still carry this logo)ĭVD-Video is a consumer video format used to store digital video on DVD discs.
High-Definition Versatile Multilayer Disc (HD VMD). HD DVD: HD DVD-R, HD DVD-RW, HD DVD-RAM. Blu-ray Disc ( BD): BD-R & BD-RE, Blu-ray 3D, Mini Blu-ray Disc. DVD: DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD-R DL, DVD+R DL, DVD-R DS, DVD+R DS, DVD-RW, DVD+RW, DVD-RAM, DVD-D, DVD-A, DVD-Video, HVD, EcoDisc, MiniDVD. Compact disc ( CD): CD-DA, CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW, 5.1 Music Disc, Super Audio CD ( SACD), Photo CD, CD Video ( CDV), Video CD ( VCD), Super Video CD ( SVCD), CD+G, CD-Text, CD-ROM XA, CD-i, MIL-CD, Mini CD. It's just neither Magix nor Sony before them seem to have had any interest in providing a GPU enabled render template for those of us who work with Blu-ray a lot. So apart from the recompression issue in DVDA Magix AVC is to be avoided if you're burning to Blu-ray. Objects moving across the screen were plagued by jittery movement to the point where they were unwatchable. The results of the Magix AVC NVENC enabled render templates were pretty horrible. I have since had a look at the Blu-ray tests that I did on my standalone player and TV. When I wrote the OP in this thread I was very much focused on what my new machine and Vegas Pro 15 could do, and I hadn't really paid much attention to the ouput (in my case the finished Blu-ray discs). I wrote to Magix technical support on the issue, and the reply I got can only be described as unsatisfactory, mainly consisting of a lesson in the basics of using DVDA - all of which I already knew. Is it a bug or by design that Magix AVC Blu-ray video streams aren't accepted by DVDA without recompression? I was hoping someone from Magix would comment on this as it isn't what the user expects. As far as I can see the Magix templates are the only ones that support GPU rendering. So, I'm wondering if there is any way to adjust things so that I can use the Magix AVC templates that won't require Vegas DVD Architect to recompress my AVC files? I've got a feeling that the answer will be "No" but I have to ask anyway.
So, as the test times below show, if the goal is to make Blu-rays its actually faster to use the slower Sony AVC template. When I burned it to Blu-ray Vegas DVD Architect insisted on recompressing the AVC file. You can imagine my joy when I rendered the same project with a Magix AVC NVENC enabled template and it ripped through it in just 25 minutes 28 seconds!!!Īlas, my joy was short lived.
For example a project of 1 hour 23 minutes that took approximately 1 hour 40 minutes to render with a Sony AVC render template now renders in just 1 hour 5 minutes. Overall I'm reasonably pleased with the improved performance from my old rig. In the main I use Vegas to render AVC files for burning to Blu-ray in DVD Architect. My new machine is Win 10 Pro 64 bit, Intel i7-7820X CPU overclocked to 4.5GHz, 32 Gigs Ram, Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070 Ti graphics card. Previously I was on Vegas Pro 13 and DVD Architect Pro 6. I've just got a new PC and upgraded to Vegas Pro 15 and Vegas DVD Architect.