SD material on BD?

[mmace]

Is this possible without it re-encoding my 720x480 videos to 720p/1080i/1080p?

 

I have around 100 music clips that I want to keep as SD and at the bit-rate they are at (NTSC SD DVD legal), I'm wanting to mix these in with a few HD videos that I have

 

if it's not possible, can anyone recommend a good way to batch convert the videos so that they don;t lose quality but don't take up too much more HDD space

 

any help would be greatly appreciated

 

@ SS Scott, cheers, the update's working well in Vista!

(except for the fact if I click one video in "titles" and then click another it does something for about 10 minutes as it did before so I can't do anything in the programme, this is with just 2 "titles", one is 10 seconds long with no audio, the other is 8 minutes long with AC3 audio, I've also done it with with more "titles" and it does exactly the same - and this is a different PC and OS to when it happened before!)

[mmace]

SD assets should just pass through at their native size.

 

I could see a situation where if you were bringing a PAL asset into an NTSC project it is possible that it might get bumped up to 1080i 25...the application first looks to keep the frame rate the same and then encodes at the frame size that allows that frame rate. As 720p has no 25 frame option, it is possible 480i 25 stuff could be bumped up to 1080i.

 

As to your issue with titles taking a long time to switch, if you want to PM me and get me your assets, I would be happy to have them checked out. Also, per our previous discussions if the computers you are using have FFDshow on them, that could be the issue.

cheers, must have mixed PAL and NTSC in the past!

 

I don't have FFDShow installed, the bit where it takes it's time is ANY HD material I have, 720P, 1080i or 1080p

I just can't do anything with it while it "thinks"

 

Any ideas about my PSD problem on my other post?

I can't do anything without a menu!?

[SS Scott]

SD assets should just pass through at their native size.

 

I could see a situation where if you were bringing a PAL asset into an NTSC project it is possible that it might get bumped up to 1080i 25...the application first looks to keep the frame rate the same and then encodes at the frame size that allows that frame rate. As 720p has no 25 frame option, it is possible 480i 25 stuff could be bumped up to 1080i.

 

As to your issue with titles taking a long time to switch, if you want to PM me and get me your assets, I would be happy to have them checked out. Also, per our previous discussions if the computers you are using have FFDshow on them, that could be the issue.