System information
Stereoscopic 3D projects will be burned to a Blu-ray 3D™ Disc. For more information about working with
stereoscopic 3D projects, see "Stereoscopic 3D editing" on page 201.
Vegas Pro burns Blu-ray BDMV format to BD-R and BD-RE recordable media.
Tips:
n A 25 GB single-layer BD recordable disc can store approximately 3 hours, 42 minutes of AVC
video (15 Mbps) or 2 hours, 15 minutes of MPEG-2 video (25 Mbps).
n A 50 GB dual-layer BD recordable disc can store approximately 7 hours, 25 minutes of AVC
video (15 Mbps) or 4 hours, 31 minutes of MPEG-2 video (25 Mbps).
n You can store large amounts of standard-definition MPEG-2 video on a BD disc.
n You can create your own rendering templates if you need to adjust the bit rates. For more
information, see "Custom Rendering Templates" on page 526.
1. From the Tools menu, choose Burn Disc and choose Blu-ray Disc from the submenu. The Burn Blu-
ray Disc dialog is displayed.
2. Select a radio button to choose what you want to do:
n Render image and burn: renders your current project as a Blu-ray Disc compliant file and
burns it to disc.
n Render image only: renders your current project as a Blu-ray Disc compliant file that you
can burn at a later time.
n Burn existing image file: burns an already-rendered file to Blu-ray Disc.
3. If you selected the Render image and burn or Render image only radio button, choose your
rendering settings:
For more information about the media settings required to create compliant media files, see
"Media File Settings for Blu-ray Disc Projects" on page 523.
a. Choose a setting from the Video format drop-down list to indicate whether you want to
burn AVC/MVC or MPEG-2 video.
b. Choose a setting from the Video template drop-down list to specify the parameters that
should be used for rendering your video stream.
Video for Blu-ray Disc can use MPEG-2 or AVC encoding. Blu-ray 3D Disc projects use MVC
encoding:
n The Vegas Pro Blu-ray MPEG-2 video templates have an average bit rate of 25 Mbps.
n The Vegas Pro Blu-ray AVC video templates have an average bit rate of 15 Mbps.
n The Vegas Pro Blu-ray MVC video templates for stereoscopic 3D projects have an
average bit rate of 10 Mbps.
4. Choose a setting from the Audio format drop-down list to indicate whether you want to burn AC-3
or Wave64 (PCM) audio.
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