OK,
It's too clever, it greyed out the burn button.....
16:9 widescreen problems from digital TV recordings
Moderator: Ken Berry
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Trevor Andrew
Hi
Thanks for the help Ken, I think the more brains the better.
Rod
The burn button is probably greyed out because you haven’t selected a burn location. i.e. Create Dvd or Create Hd Dvd folder.
Select the two down arrows to the right--middle of the screen to expand the window.
VS 10 seems to be using this option to view windows quite a lot!!!!!
Create HD DVD TS folder would save you a disc. The file would be saved to the working folder.
I have just tried burning a 15000 file and although it rendered, the render was instant.
The process created a HD DVD TS folder, (HV001T01.EVO) which I was able to play on my pc using Nero Player.
I repeated with a 1440 x 1080 at 1800kbps, file rendering again was quick, but the playback was not that good. The audio stuttered.
Start a new project for each test burn.
Trevor
Thanks for the help Ken, I think the more brains the better.
Rod
The burn button is probably greyed out because you haven’t selected a burn location. i.e. Create Dvd or Create Hd Dvd folder.
Select the two down arrows to the right--middle of the screen to expand the window.
VS 10 seems to be using this option to view windows quite a lot!!!!!
Create HD DVD TS folder would save you a disc. The file would be saved to the working folder.
I have just tried burning a 15000 file and although it rendered, the render was instant.
The process created a HD DVD TS folder, (HV001T01.EVO) which I was able to play on my pc using Nero Player.
I repeated with a 1440 x 1080 at 1800kbps, file rendering again was quick, but the playback was not that good. The audio stuttered.
Start a new project for each test burn.
Trevor
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Rod.Sugden
Hi Trevor,
My little double arrows had defaulted to not hiding the menu so the box to check for "Create HD DVD Folders" was there and, yes, if I check it the burn button becomes available.
However, surely all this would do is create yet another "compliant" mpeg-2 file (compliant with HD DVD this time) with a max bit rate of 15,000.
Following your first advice has already given me a "Std DVD compliant" mpeg-2 file at 15,000 max which I can play on the PC, but I can't burn to DVD apparently because of this 9,800 kbps limit.
The check box I can't tick for this HD DVD selection is the "Create to disc" presumably becausy VS sees my writer is only a standard dual layer one and will only allow a HD DVD file to be burnt to a suitable writer (which doesn't exist yet I believe).
The whole point of my exercise was to try and get the 15,000 MAX mpeg-2 file onto a normal DVD without compromising its quality, not just play it on the PC as I can already do that from the very original file through the TV software (or media player or just about anything).
It appears the only way is let VS "render" it to 8000 (although after following one of Ken's suggestions last night I found a way of getting 9,800).
It appears the 9,800 is a limit set by the DVD standard so digital TV is transmitting at a theoretical better standard (or at least this channel was at the time).
The reason I'm unhappy with VS "rendering" it is that the file size jumps implying that VS has FIXED the bit rate at 8,000 (it's average is 5-6,000 before VS renders it). That must compromise the quality of the whole file, not just any bits that MAY be above 8,000
It's funny, this all started off because I didn't know how to set the project up properly and lost my 16:9.
Now I can create just about anything, except what I want !!!!
Thanks for all you help, all of you.
My little double arrows had defaulted to not hiding the menu so the box to check for "Create HD DVD Folders" was there and, yes, if I check it the burn button becomes available.
However, surely all this would do is create yet another "compliant" mpeg-2 file (compliant with HD DVD this time) with a max bit rate of 15,000.
Following your first advice has already given me a "Std DVD compliant" mpeg-2 file at 15,000 max which I can play on the PC, but I can't burn to DVD apparently because of this 9,800 kbps limit.
The check box I can't tick for this HD DVD selection is the "Create to disc" presumably becausy VS sees my writer is only a standard dual layer one and will only allow a HD DVD file to be burnt to a suitable writer (which doesn't exist yet I believe).
The whole point of my exercise was to try and get the 15,000 MAX mpeg-2 file onto a normal DVD without compromising its quality, not just play it on the PC as I can already do that from the very original file through the TV software (or media player or just about anything).
It appears the only way is let VS "render" it to 8000 (although after following one of Ken's suggestions last night I found a way of getting 9,800).
It appears the 9,800 is a limit set by the DVD standard so digital TV is transmitting at a theoretical better standard (or at least this channel was at the time).
The reason I'm unhappy with VS "rendering" it is that the file size jumps implying that VS has FIXED the bit rate at 8,000 (it's average is 5-6,000 before VS renders it). That must compromise the quality of the whole file, not just any bits that MAY be above 8,000
It's funny, this all started off because I didn't know how to set the project up properly and lost my 16:9.
Now I can create just about anything, except what I want !!!!
Thanks for all you help, all of you.