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Blu-Ray files with audio
I had some confusion about rendering out projects when dealing with SD video but HD appears to make this worse. I recently shot a holiday video on a Sony HDR XR550 using the highest quality settings. For PAL this appears to be 1920x1080i. Everyone knows that progressive file will look better on all newer TV’s. Can I safely assume that even though the program appears to default to making your video as interlaced that it’s then the job of your TV or media player/dvd player to change it to progressive?
When setting a new project up I told the properties setting to match media settings & it appeared to do so. I had hoped to create a new edited M2TS file that was like the original which I could play using a media player since I don’t have a Blu-Ray player at this stage & probably never would need since I know that the Media player can play these type of files OK.
When going to render the file out I chose Blu-Ray setting since It was supposed to match my input. It appears that the template doesn’t really match the input because the original files included both audio & video & the program wants you to to render the audio out seperately since it assumes that you will be making a Blu-Ray disk using DVDA. At the same time once you have the Blu-Ray template open you can click on the custom tab then audio tab & select audio to be included in file. This I did but the resulting file has no audio & I confirmed this uping MediaInfo tool. The same custom tab on the template also allows you you change the files to progressive. Should I use this?
Where did I get this wrong & how do I fix it?
Thanks in advance
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[Paul Gregory] “Where did I get this wrong & how do I fix it?”
If you are not rendering for Blu-ray then don’t use the Blu-ray template. Use the AVCHD template instead (same quality with audio).
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I also view my movies via media players (Western Digital TV Live). I also create Blu-ray discs.
I render to Blue-ray AVC and WAV for the audio, and then combine them into an MKV file using ‘mkvmerge GUI’. This takes about two minutes for a 30 minute movie. The benefit of putting the audio and video files into an mkv wrapper is that I can also add chapters and subtitles.
With chapters I can jump to specific points, and the subtitles are used for additional information about the video.
I have found these mkv files to be quite playable on numerous PCs and WD TV Live players. The AVC format is the standard for Blu-ray, so I have confidence that it will be well supported; some Blu-ray players now support MKV files as well as AVCHD files.
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