[was1m]

Hi Guys,

I am very new to video editing and I have some uncompressed 1080i video in .avi format.
The content is too big to fit onto a Blu-Ray disk so was wondering how could encode it in order to compress it and also play on Blu-ay players (PS3).

I have read about VC-1 and that it would work on Blu-Ray players, I have played with Windows Media Encoder 9, but this only lets me save in .wmv

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

[senu]

vc-1 encoding seems to be an industry thing.Microsoft aren't giving it away
As the Blu ray standard supports
mpeg2 1080 ( 50 o r 60i)
and avchd
You would be thinking of software which can accept uncompressed HD,(Premier Pro can but no avchd output) encode to either of these then
Get software which can author BD VIDEO
Have a look at Matrox Axio, Canopus Edius or Avid media composer (adrenaline)

[chrishull3]

Originally Posted by was1m

Hi Guys,

I am very new to video editing and I have some uncompressed 1080i video in .avi format.
The content is too big to fit onto a Blu-Ray disk so was wondering how could encode it in order to compress it and also play on Blu-ay players (PS3).

I have read about VC-1 and that it would work on Blu-Ray players, I have played with Windows Media Encoder 9, but this only lets me save in .wmv

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

PInnacle 12 ultimate leaves a little to be desired in some departments but it has no trouble with avchd and blu ray disc making,although i perfer my vaio laptop for bd as with its built in click to dvd bd separate programn chapters can be made.

[senu]

The problem is not Pinnacle or indeed other software that supports AVCHD. It is support for Uncompressed HD as an input
Creating a BD is subsequent to the importong the uncompressed HD and then encoding it it BD friendly format