[Craig Johnson]

I suspect that might work and will try it in the morning after this project. Still would like to know why. Is there a feature that shows a point of failure?

[Craig Johnson]

Thanks David, I was hoping that it wouldn’t be a big deal. Perfect answer, now I know what I’m looking for and where to look.

[Craig Johnson]

Thanks Rafael….Seems like you are always helping me. It’s appreciated.

[Craig Johnson]

I have soundtrack and haven’t ever opened it. I’ll look into it. Thanks.

[Craig Johnson]

Hi Jeff,
I guess frame rates would have been helpful for you to know . The Sony shoots 1080i60 and the GoPro shoots 1080p30. I haven’t heard of this plug in. Do you have a link where I can get it? Life is short and there’s no sense re-inventing the wheel if this plug in allows me to throw different stuff in the timeline and get to editing. Thanks.

[Craig Johnson]

Actually if I take the footage after it was just shot and plug the camera into the tv, it looks really pretty decent. Surprisingly decent. It’s only after I convert it and bring it into FCP and try to choose the right codec etc.. that I can’t seem to get the right combo.

[Craig Johnson]

Thanks for looking John. These were shot just a few minutes of one another with a Everio camera during our first visit to our old log cabin. This SD Video is a blurry shot is of my Wife cutting brush which wasn’t a super high activity shot but still was with constant motion. A short time later, a shot of her showing my Daughter what to do building a fire pit. The fire pit scene had very little motion and suffered less. Anytime there is motion, the shot suffers. Even with the newer upgraded Sony HDR-FX1 HD camera, motion suffers but not nearly as bad as the SD stuff. Oddly, in the same video, I shot some 1080 with my new GoPro Hero camera. Zero motion issues and by comparison, it’s a toy next to the Sony. Here’s a link. Thanks

https://s1227.photobucket.com/albums/ee428/sharpcarstore/

[Craig Johnson]

I’ll experiment with trying to get a screen shot of the blurring, but do you want one from the TV or my monitor?

As far as the BluRay. I made a BluRay from the HD footage shot with my HDR-FX1 Sony and some stills from the old Canon. I must say after a ton of screwing around, the first BluRay looked pretty good. I’m happy with that quality but would love to see the motion shots a slight bit tighter.

That being said, when I kept getting disappointed with the SD stuff and was repairing some old stuff that was corrupted, I thought what if I put this stuff into a ProRes 422 timeline like was suggested to me and then put it on a BluRay, I thought that the less compressed it was, it might play better. It does…way better, but still has motion sickness. I thought that maybe I could clean it up some if I played with bitrates more. Expensive and time consuming experiments though. 10 hours to encode and a couple of hours to burn and maybe a BluRay coaster or not great results. But way better than a DVD 5. I just can’t seem to get the right combo to make a decent DVD 5 or 9. Anyway, I just followed the same instructions that I follow for the HD footage with the SD footage and send to Compressor and then drag the assets to Toast 10 and knock one off. I’m sure to get scolded for this but it’s light years better viewing than what I have been able to do so far. So do you think this motion issue could be a bitrate problem?

[Craig Johnson]

Thanks for your response.

These are my projects, and this is the ongoing archival process that we discussed in my previous thread stemming from DVD disc failure.

I did try to take my BDMV file and drag it into Toast 10, it has a place to drag these file types. It appeared to be burning but just ejected a blank BluRay, but the when I tried to use the same disc over again for another experiment, Toast says the BluRay isn’t blank. Don’t want to keep making coasters. Have any of you done this? Can I have your workflow? I can’t imagine I’m far off the mark but murdering quality blanks can get pricy.
Thanks.

[Craig Johnson]

I see in one of my replies a few posts up that I used the word rip instead of copy. I was in a hurry. To answer your question….no. They constantly stall and are ejected. I used MPEG Steamclip to set a new in point after every failure. I could get a bit more and a bit more until after a whole weekend I got all the footage. I needed FCP to splice it back together. They are too far gone to stay in the machine long enough to get a copy.

Regards