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Best Render Settings For Blu-ray
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Hi Harry-
I guess my first observation… you have a Pansonic HDC-SD60. This camcorder doesn’t record in any version of 1080p… it has one video mode, 1920×1080/60i.
Thus, your target for Blu-ray needs to be that resolution. Set your project Template to “HD 1080-60i (1920×1080, 29.970fps) and render out to MainConcept MPEG-2, template = “Blu-ray 1920×1080-60i, 25Mbps video stream” or Sony AVC, template = “Blu-ray 1929×1080-60i, 16Mbps video stream”, and you should be well on your way to HD video happiness.
I don’t know exactly how you got jerky video. One way would be to render your 1080/60i out as 1080/24p, which is also a legal Blu-ray video format. 24p films are often represented as 60i video using a technique called 3:2 pulldown. But reversing the process, you drop fields or frames converting from 60i to 24p, which will typically make things look more “jerky” than they ought to.
When experimenting with video rendering to disc, it’s handy to have the camcorder itself, or the unedited video, available for playback on the same screen, so you can compare directly.
-Dave
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Thank you for your advice. I am in northern ireland so would i have to set my settings at 1080 50i. I havent tried burning your settings yet but i have played the render back on my computer and it is perfect. Thanks.
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[harry welsh] “I am in northern ireland so would i have to set my settings at 1080 50i. “
Yes, PAL countries should use 1080-50i and NTSC countries should use 1080-60i.
~jr
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I know that I am probably being stupid, but this HD thing is entirely new to me. I have now created a new problem for myself. I had downloaded blu ray software for burning. The reason being I had read it was faster than encore. But I accidently downloaded express burn instead of burnaware free. I then proceeded to burn my Hd footage, but then I realised that I was burning a data blu ray. As soon as I caught on I stopped the burn. I then downloaded the correct program and burned my footage. When I put the disc into my blu ray player to watch it on TV it says no disc. It says the same thing even when I burn it with encore or any other program like vegas. Have I damaged my writer. I hope not as it is brand new. It is an LG super multi blue external blu ray disc rewriter. Sorry for being so stupid. The disc I have been using is rewritable, but even when I tried to burn to a new disc it says the same thing. No disc. When I put the disc back into my rewriter and exploe the disc on computer, the files are on the disc and I can even play the footage stream. My blu ray player plays all my blu ray films and even plays my early attempts to burn blu ray last week. So I dont think its my blu ray player. It is a philips player. Thanks in advance for your help.
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I don’t believe that you can physically damage a Blu-ray burner from using the software. Are you sure that your Blu-ray player supports BD-RE (i.e., rewritables?) Not all players do. Why aren’t you using DVD Architect to author your Blu-ray disc?
~jr
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In my last post I thought that there might be something wrong with my Blu ray writer because my blu ray player wasn’t recognizing the disc when burned. It turns out that for some reason my blu ray writer is now burning a bdmv file whereas last week it burned in bdav format. How this has changed i dont know. My blur player dosent seem to recognize BDMV, could anyone tell me how to write in BDAV format please. I realise its probably the way I’m using my burning software but try as I might I cant get it to write in BDAV. Thankyou for your help. I’m beginning to feel I should have stuck to DVD as I’m used to that. But I like the HD quality.
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Thank you for your response. My blu ray player and my rewriter both support BD-RE. I already burned the same files last week and it was working then on rewritable disc. I havent used architect yet for one reason. I am used to encore, Sony Vegas is very new to me. The only reason I got it was because it works with HD natively. I still do all my editing in premiere and after effects. I just wanted to burn a Blu ray disc quickly with no frills. Thats the reason for using Burnaware. I read on the net it was very fast and good. Since then I have realised that my burner is writing in BDMV format which my player dosent seem to recognise. I checked the blu rays I wrote last week by exploring files in my computer and they were in BDAV format. I dont know what I’ve done to change it.
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That’s really a question for the Encore forum then. The authoring software creates the Blu-ray structure as either BDMV or BDAV so it’s an authoring program question. I would also look for an upgrade to your Blu-ray player’s firmware to make sure that you have the latest updates.
~jr
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Is it possible to burn BDAV format in architect.
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[harry welsh] “Is it possible to burn BDAV format in architect.”
No. DVD Architect creates BDMV formated discs.
This is why I said to check the firmware on your Blu-ray player. Perhaps there is on update for playing BDMV on BD-R/RE.
~jr
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