Hello! I'm coming over from DVD Workshop, having used that for several years. Need to do some HD authoring, so I'm giving MovieFactory 6 Plus a chance. I bought the HD pack, and am attempting to make a Blu-ray disc from an over-the-air MPEG-2 recording captured with TiVo.
Video -- no problem. The resulting disc looks great as MF6 did not re-encode it. My problem is with setting chapter points. I've selected the "no menu" option, and then added chapter points throughout the program. In the window where you place and preview the chapters, everything is correct -- however, when I preview what will be output to the disc, the chapters are wrong -- they seem to be evenly spaced about 4 minutes apart. If I then burn a disc, the results as the same.
Anybody seen this behavior before? And more importantly, what am I doing wrong?
Thanks!
Chapter points are not where I put them
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videojanitor
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OK, I am replying to myself with more information about this problem. I have narrowed down the issue to only be with 720p MPEG-2 files. When I import these, if I scroll through the clip in the preview window, the clip ends when the scroll bar is only half-way through the time-line -- if I move the scroll bar to the end of the time-line, the time-code display shows a duration that is TWICE as long as the clip.
The same thing is seen in the preview window when trying to add chapters. However, if I click on "Edit Room," the preview window in THAT module behaves correctly -- the clip duration is the true duration.
No such problems with 1080i files.
Just to be clear, I am going through these steps to start: New Video Project, Select "Blu-ray," Select "BDMV," then Add Video Files.
Any clues? Anybody??
The same thing is seen in the preview window when trying to add chapters. However, if I click on "Edit Room," the preview window in THAT module behaves correctly -- the clip duration is the true duration.
No such problems with 1080i files.
Just to be clear, I am going through these steps to start: New Video Project, Select "Blu-ray," Select "BDMV," then Add Video Files.
Any clues? Anybody??
That sounds like classic symptoms of corrupted MPEG data... I'm not surprised that broadcast data sometimes gets some corruption...if I scroll through the clip in the preview window, the clip ends when the scroll bar is only half-way through the time-line -- if I move the scroll bar to the end of the time-line, the time-code display shows a duration that is TWICE as long as the clip.
Sometimes you can fix slight-corruption by re-encoding the MPEG. You may be able to do that with Video Studio or with SUPER (FREE!!!). When you recode you may get some video-quality loss, but sometimes there is no choice.
VideoReDo has an MPEG repair tool, but I don't know if it works on HD.
I'm not sure if the TiVo software already takes care of this, but you could also try using a program that's designed to convert transport streams (broadcast format) to program streams (computer file format). A couple of FREE transport-to-stream converters are PVA Strumento and ProjectX
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Hi,
With the 720P files while on the timeline if you right click on it and select "Media Properties" or hit the "I" for Information. What are the video/audio specs and exactly what is MF6 telling you it's seeing the frame-rate as.
If you making a blu-ray disc I'm pretty sure that your 1280x720P videos will be re-encoded to whatever your project settings are setup to be.
Even though 720P is supposed to be compliant MF6+ may not see it as BDMV compliant.
If MF6+ does re-encode the 720P files under the "GEAR" Icon make sure that both the "Do not convert compliant mpeg2" & "X-Disc" are checked ON.
The videos probably have an extension of TS maybe?
The timecode can be confusing with TS containers (transport stream) containers. It could be the way your unit is recording them, either "On the fly" or converting them into another container format.
It would help if you post the video/audio properties of your 1280x720P videos.
Especially the framerate.
You may need to export them using MF6+ exporting features before you try editing or chaptering them. Mf6+ may be able to fix the file using it's exporting features.
Also for XP & Vista make sure you have installed the latest version of Directx 9.0C from the MS website (although the HD-Add-On Pack includes the September release, I think).
It is important to be running the latest version of DirectX 9.0C (XP & Vista).
Hope this helps
With the 720P files while on the timeline if you right click on it and select "Media Properties" or hit the "I" for Information. What are the video/audio specs and exactly what is MF6 telling you it's seeing the frame-rate as.
If you making a blu-ray disc I'm pretty sure that your 1280x720P videos will be re-encoded to whatever your project settings are setup to be.
Even though 720P is supposed to be compliant MF6+ may not see it as BDMV compliant.
If MF6+ does re-encode the 720P files under the "GEAR" Icon make sure that both the "Do not convert compliant mpeg2" & "X-Disc" are checked ON.
The videos probably have an extension of TS maybe?
The timecode can be confusing with TS containers (transport stream) containers. It could be the way your unit is recording them, either "On the fly" or converting them into another container format.
It would help if you post the video/audio properties of your 1280x720P videos.
Especially the framerate.
You may need to export them using MF6+ exporting features before you try editing or chaptering them. Mf6+ may be able to fix the file using it's exporting features.
Also for XP & Vista make sure you have installed the latest version of Directx 9.0C from the MS website (although the HD-Add-On Pack includes the September release, I think).
It is important to be running the latest version of DirectX 9.0C (XP & Vista).
Hope this helps
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videojanitor
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Thanks for the replies. Unfortunately, because I was not able to get this to work and didn't get much help from Corel tech support, I asked for a refund and had to destroy my copy of MF6+ -- thus, I am unable to do any more testing.
I do recall trying just about everything that's been suggested though, and none of it helped. The frame-rate was reported as being 59.94, which I believe it correct for 720p. I don't think that MF6+ actually re-encoded the project, as the disc burning was accomplished very quickly and the video quality looked the same as the original recording. The only problem was that I could not put the chapters where I wanted.
The file extension was .MPG.
Anyway, sorry it didn't work out. I ended up trying Arcsoft's Total Media Extreme instead, and that works just fine with these files, so I bought that.
I do recall trying just about everything that's been suggested though, and none of it helped. The frame-rate was reported as being 59.94, which I believe it correct for 720p. I don't think that MF6+ actually re-encoded the project, as the disc burning was accomplished very quickly and the video quality looked the same as the original recording. The only problem was that I could not put the chapters where I wanted.
The file extension was .MPG.
Anyway, sorry it didn't work out. I ended up trying Arcsoft's Total Media Extreme instead, and that works just fine with these files, so I bought that.