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Thanks for reporting back! :lol:

I have just checked through the earlier posts, and one piece of information you don't appear to have ever given is exactly what brand and model your video camera is. However, I am now assuming it is an AVCHD model... But can you please confirm.

One thing strikes in your latest post, and it is related to my question about your camera. If your camera is indeed an AVCHD model, then depending on exactly which camera it is, it will probably be filming in 1920 x 1080, UFF, Dolby 5.1 audio but with a maximum bitrate specific to that particular camera. Most middle of the road models appear to use VBR max 16,800 kbps; some have a max. of 18,000 kbps and a handful of the most recent higher end models are using the new max. of 24,000 kbps (which VS cannot seem to handle anyway as it was written before that new standard appeared...)

Now, in your 'create a file' properties, you show a VBR max. 16000 kbps (and what appears to be Dolby 2 channel stereo audio) plus, correctly, Upper Field First for AVCHD video. But what went onto your Blu-Ray disc was Lower Field First and a new, higher bitrate of 18000, plus LPCM audio. There are at least two problems with these differences.

First, we need to know what the exact properties of your original video files were *before* you created the new video file of your project. If the properties you gave above vary at all in terms of bitrate from the original, then the whole of your video would have been re-rendered, which -- being mpeg -- means one generation of loss of quality. And then you burned the new file to BD using another totally different set of properties, which means a second generation of loss of quality. This already does not make me surprised that you are seeing worse quality than you got with your AVCHD hybrid discs, including the blocky artifacts you mention.

Next, the change upwards of the bitrate will NOT improve the quality of the original. If the original was using VBR max. 16000 kbps, then that is as good as it is ever going to be! Silk purse and sow's ears spring to mind, I am afraid. That is not to say the original is a sow's ear in terms of quality. We both know that your original video is high quality high definition. But my point is that you can't make it *higher* quality than it already is. Video doesn't work that way -- and if you are processing it multiple times, being mpeg, you *lose* quality, rather than improve it... So essentially, you should leave the original bitrate alone, whatever it was.

Next, is the field order. Your original is Upper Field First. And a basic rule of video editing is that if video starts off UFF, it must remain UFF (unless, depending on the circumstances, it is converted to progressive scan/frame based). If it becomes Lower Field First, you have reversed the order in which the eye is seeing the interlaced frames. And that of course means your eye will be seeing things incorrectly which the brain interprets as lower quality and more often than not with 'jaggies' and blocky artifacts, especially in fast motion, panning shots and where there are strong vertical lines in your video.

Now, AVCHD video is completely compatible in its own right with the international Blu-Ray standard. It does not need to be converted to the Blu-Ray format to be burned to a Blu-Ray disc. The BDMV file structure you get on hybrid DVDs is the same as you would get on a Blu-Ray disc when inputting AVCHD files.

So if you have created your new file(s) in the Editing module and they are AVCHD (which they are), then you Share > Create Disc > Blu-Ray. And when the burning module opens, you manually insert your new AVCHD files. Then in the middle icon in the bottom left of screen, you make sure the 'Do not convert compliant mpeg files' box is ticked. That way the AVCHD files should be burned with their original AVCHD properties, and not be converted, as they obviously have been, according to the properties which are set out in the bigger top window in that icon.
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Thanks, as always for the reply - I am looking to order some blu-ray disc's so I can get on to a better outcome.
What you say makes sense, of course.

The camera is a Canon HF-10 - Sorry for not mentioning the model
The output from the camera *.MTS files are as follows

NTSC HDMV
H.264 Video, Upper Field First
24 bits 1920 x 1080 16.9
29.970 frames/sec
Variable bit rate (Max 16000 kbps)

Audio DDA
48000 hz
256 kbps

If I am reading you right I should

1. Whether creating a file or a disc - I should try to duplicate the input.

Question: If my ultimate goal is to create a BluRay disc - and I create one hard drive file first using "Create a file" What codec should I create?
There are two "flavors" of BluRay and two of AVCHD. Or maybe it is not to be either. Perhaps it is the "Same as video project"

After I create a single hard drive file and import it back on to the VS time line for creating a disc with menus. I will then be outputting it to the "Create a Disc" option - I suspect I should select the same data rate and etc. as the original?
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A couple of things. First, when you have done your editing, you select Share > Create Video File > Same as First Video Clip (if, that is, the first *video* clip in your project is in fact one of your original files from the HF10. But when you give it a name, you will see the properties box down at the bottom of that little window which came up and you can check to make sure that it is indeed H.264, VBR max 16 Mbps, Upper Field First etc. That way your new file will be *exactly* the same as the original.

Then, if you read my last post carefully, when you go to Share > Create Disc > Blu-Ray, and the burning module opens, you insert the new file *manually* in the *burning* timeline. What you have just written suggests you may have been thinking that after you create your new video file in the editing module, you insert that in back into the Editing module timeline, and then select Share > Create Disc. If you do it that way, then when the burning module opens, it is the *project* file for the project in the editing timeline which automatically appears in the burning timeline.

And that is the trap. A project file (.vsp) is NOT a video file. It is a short text file, a bit like a road map, saying what video is in the project, where it is stored on the computer, and what editing has been done to it. It does NOT contain any video itself.

So if you have been doing it this way, then with a *project* file in the burning timeline, it is irrelevant whether or not the 'do not convert compliant mpeg files' box is ticked or not, for the simple reason there are *no* compliant video files in the burning timeline -- only the project file. Thus, that project file will be converted to video (again! -- another generation of loss) as part of the burning process and using whatever properties appear in the upper box of that icon.

That is where I now suspect you are going wrong, and why your output files on the BD have the properties they do.

Instead, just to repeat myself in a little more detail:

1. Do your editing, and then Share > Create Video File > Same As First Video (or Same as Project Properties if in fact you have exactly the same properties of the original video as your project properties). Give the file a name, and let it convert. It's up to you whether or not to use SmartRender here. It will certainly be faster, but I personally tend avoid it as I notice some artifacts creep in by using it. But play around with that yourself.

2. After you produce your new file, you go to File > New Project. Don't worry about giving your new project a name. The objective is just to clear the timeline of your current project. That way, when you open the burning module, *nothing* will be automatically inserted into the burning timeline. That is the important thing.

3. Once that is done, you select Share > Create Disc > Blu-Ray. I wouldn't worry here which option you choose because, according to my directions, the burning module will ignore whatever you choose, and instead will burn the BD using the AVCHD files as they are, including all their original properties.

4. Anyway, the burning module will open. Use the Add Media button at the top to manually insert your new file(s) in the burning timeline (which should have been empty when the burning module opened).

5. Then go to the middle of the three icons in the bottom left of the burning screen. Make sure that the box beside 'Do not convert compliant mpeg files'. is ticked (it usually is by default). That way, your already compliant AVCHD file(s) will not be re-encoded as part of the burning process. Then build your menus and burn.

This time you should get a disc with a BDMV structure on it as you already have, but the files in the STREAM folder should have the original AVCHD properties. (And the burning process should probably be [much] shorter since no conversion of the video should occur this way in the burning process.) :lol:
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Thanks again - I will have to print out your comments and then try to put them into practice.
Will be ordering some BD discs - so I will get a rest for now.
Will keep you posted - It works, just have to tweak it and do it correctly and it should work
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I think I understand what you wrote on the Board - Is there a tutorial on the board or somewhere that tells you what to set the
"preferences" and "project properties" for optimal results ?
I think the fact that my edit movie display is sharp could be a problem in the slow operation and crashing of the programming
The editing does not have to be super sharp to work it.
I suspect I should set the "preferences" and "project properties" PRIOR to doing any editing - but just don't know what are the optimal settings -
For example - the camera video says it is upper field first - but if you check on the project properties, it says lower field
There is little doubt VS could be one of the more challenging things in my entire life - ha
YOU should right a book on how to use this program - not just what each function does, but why it does it and do you need to activate, de activate or change the settings. I am sure I have most of the settings wrong and that is why the program continuously stops and says it is not responding. There are 6 tabs in the preferences setup and I don't have a clue where I should set them.
In the project properties - the highest VDR you can do is 8000 - wazzzzzzzzz up with that?
I never had the problems in the past since I was doing low res video and the program did not crash at every mouse click. I would hate to have to go looking for a new program .
PS Update - I am actually reworking my video from the start (glad I am a retired person) I adjusted the "project preferences" to mimic the *.mts properties. I hope that is right - Of course the highest data rate is 8000. I have to say the X2 did not crash this time, but I saved the project repeatedly and it probably "gave up" on crashing - ha
So we will see how it goes from here
Again - how about that book? I want a signed copy!
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I will have to leave it to others to comment on books. I know there are some that are recommended, but I haven't seen them, nor have I consulted any. And I am afraid I just don't have the time to write one myself -- too busy answering questions here!! :lol:

Preferences is not going to change much to do with your final output -- it's just about more mechanical things of how to get to that final output. Apart from making sure you have the preview screen selected as target, and displaying Thumbnails only, the only really important things is on the first tab -- Show message when inserting first video clip. If you have that checked, then drag a video clip into the timeline to start a new project, a message box should appear asking if you want the project properties to match those of the clip. In your case, the answer would definitely be 'YES'!! :wink:

The only other thing which you might need to look at is the Playback Method, also on the first tab. You mention that your previews are too high quality and thus slowing things down. That is a bit strange since most people (including me) complain that one of the weakest links in VS (and has been for years) is the poor quality of the preview playback. So just check to make sure you have Instant Playback selected. You may have High Quality Playback selected, which would indeed slow things down enormously as VS has in effect to do a temporary render to put the project into high quality playback mode.

The rest of the preferences I tend to leave at the default settings, with the exception of selecting default timing for transitions, the default transition, and fade in and fade out times. But they are purely a matter of personal choice anyway.

On Project Properties, if you have the above box about messages checked, and are actually getting that message, you don't need anything more. But as I thought I had said in one of my earlier posts, it doesn't really matter what your project properties are if you know what you are doing at the really important moment, which is converting your project into a new video file i.e. the Share > Create Video File stage. But I have set that out in detail above as to what you need to be producing and with what settings to match your original video properties.

One of the problems is, as you have found, that default project settings tend to have quite different settings from your original video, such as the max bitrate of 8000 kbps, which is a standard DVD bitrate, not high definition. It's another reason why I tend not to worry about the project properties. They will only affect your final outcome if you select Share > Create Video File > Same As Project Properties. If you have indeed received the message about make project properties match the properties of the original video, that is fine. But otherwise, as I suggested, choose Share > Create Video File > Same as First Video Clip (or Custom) is what you should be choosing. And that will make irrelevant whatever the project properties happen to be.
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Thanks again Ken for all your info - I have printed out your responses and have been trying to put them into practice. But alas, a new problem has come up - Whilst creating a file - I get about 89% finished and VS says it has to close and that windows will try to come up with a solution to the problem. Of course I don't see their solution and have check the Corel BB for things which might cause this problem such as Windows Defender and etc. Also reloaded X2 and am downloading some other video card drivers at the suggestion of NVIDA. I did see one error message which mentioned the the Video Card Hardware - but it is working and I don't have that message.
I am thinking of taking another hard drive - putting XP on it - installing X2 and giving that a shot. Kind of disappointing to see posts which mention X2 doesn't like large image files......Maybe there is an X3 on the horizon which will work with Vista 64 bit.
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Ran the project one more time after downloading an older set of GeForce 260 drivers, per NVIDIA tech,
Reloading X2 (probably didn't need to do it)
..... got the Create the file option to work - Held my breath while the progress graph approached and passed 89%. The NVIDIA tech said they had "good luck" with driver set 182.50 with Windows Vista 64, available on their website. I just ordered 25 BluRay Discs and put away the sledge hammer! I think the SD type media is just around the corner and perhaps in a few years we won't be messing around with these disc's. Would be nice to burn a project to an SD card - stick it in the player and if you don't like it, overwrite it. But then again someday they are going to put a man on the moon!
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Would be nice to burn a project to an SD card - stick it in the player and if you don't like it, overwrite it.
Ummm... I can *already* burn my finished, fully edited, rendered and ready-to-view projects on a USB stick (or external hard drive), connect them directly to my PlayStation 3 USB input(s), and play back the video directly over my HDTV... I imagine I could probably do the same with an SD card, put that in a card-reader and connect it to the PS3 via USB... So in fact the age has come... And I believe a number (all?) stand-alone Blu-Ray players may also have USB inputs, so it might even be possible with them...
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I have a Panasonic HDC-SD9P/PC camera Which I use to film in HD quality. When I play the video to our HD TV direct from the camera the pictures are perfect and stable.
I download the video from the SD card to my PC using HDWriter then load the .m2ts files into the timeline of VS 12 and edit in the normal way. I create a video file choosing the Bluray option and it takes around 6 hours to render an hour of film. Reopening VS12 I then go to create a disc and again choose the Bluray option. I add my video files, create a menu adding my own backgrownd and music then burn to a bluray disc. (£3.50 from our local 'Media Shop') One disc will hold about three hours of video.

When I play the Bluray disc on our Sony Bluray Player into a Sony HD TV the pictures jump a lot. Even when the camera is still pixels jump around.

What can I do to improve this? I checked the properties of the m2ts files and it was
Format NTSC HDMV
Video Type H.264 video, upper field first
Attributes 24 bits 1920x1080 16:9
Frame Rate 29.970 frames/sec
Audio Dolby Digital
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I think you are going to find it is because you chose the Blu-Ray option after you finished editing. Your video straight from the camera has the properties you set out. It is high definition mpeg-4 Upper Field First. But when you chose Share > Create Video File > Blu-Ray, your video was converted to High Definition mpeg-2. For some reason which I cannot explain at the moment, the default Field Order for this output is Lower Field First.

That in particular could account for the artifacts you are seeing. There is a basic rule of video editing that you should maintain the same Field Order throughout a project, up to and including the burning stage. Wrong field order produces artifacts and jagged edges on vertical lines, particularly in fast action shots and when panning. As I say, though, I cannot account for why Corel has set Lower Field First as the Blu-Ray default field order. I will check that out, but I should stress here that I have no hands-on experience with this as I do not have a Blu-Ray burner so never use the Blu-Ray option.

The other piece of information which is relevant is that your original AVCHD video is itself Blu-Ray compliant. In other words, you can burn both HDV (Mpeg-2) and AVCHD (mpeg-4) high definition video to a Blu-Ray disc in its original format!

So what I would be doing would be, after editing, choosing Share > Create Video File > AVCHD 1920 (which will give you much the same output properties as the original) or Share > Create Video File > Same As First Clip (though I would then check to be sure that the properties shown in the dialogue box in fact do match the properties you have given us.

Then when your new AVCHD file is produced, I would then choose Share > Create Disc > Blu-Ray. I would insert the new AVCHD file in the burning timeline, and then click on the middle icon in the bottom left of the burning screen and make sure that the box beside 'Do not convert compliant mpeg files' is ticked. Since your AVCHD is in fact compliant mpeg with the Blu-Ray standard, it should be burnt as is to disc.
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Thank you for your very comprehensive reply. I had wanted to buy this Panasonic SD9 camera for some time but when I had saved the money together it was out of stock from all UK suppliers. I looked on Ebay and it was offered by a supplier there as being 'from the U.K' I bought one of these but found later that it was probably for the U.S. market. Could this be why the video is at 30f/s? Will this be a problem for me?

Last night I re-rendered one of my projects and chose the 'Same as first clip' option as you suggest. The properties of the of this are the same as the first clip when I checked. Viewing this film this morning on 'Power DVD8' I did not see any jumping pixels as was in the Bluray rendering. So now I shall re-render my other projects and burn them to Bluray disc to see how they fare on the TV. I shall report back when I know. All this takes so much time to do!

We were watching last night our holiday film taken in 1997 with an 8mm analouge camera. It was so fuzzy compared to even our standard defininition films even my wife can now appreciate how good the current HD video is. At last our films look not only as good as broadcast TV but sometimes better!
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Could this be why the video is at 30f/s? Will this be a problem for me?
I'm going to boldly jump in here in the hope that Ken will put me right if I am wrong but if you record at 30fps (really I think this is 29.7fps) are you recording in NTSC format? I THINK I have read on this Forum, probably by Ken, that with Blu-Ray it doesn't matter which you use PAL or NTSC.
Please don't take any notice of this until Ken says whether I have got this right or wrong :oops:
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RE: BluRayBlues - I made a coaster - probably won't be the last. I used Cyberlinks BluRay Disc Suite Lite - thinking (that's a mistake) I could select my three AVCHD projects and burn them to the disc as data and my Panasonic BD60 would read each folder like it does with JPG files. Not so - the display said "Nothing was recorded" The disc does play, however, on my computer, so I guess I have a nice back up of the files. Almost a coaster!
Sooooooooooooo I went back to giving X2 a shot. I went right to the Create a disc option (Bluray) without loading the files on the time line - Made a short 3 selection main menu with my mp3 and photo back ground and pressed the burn button - Much to my surprise I didn't get the dreaded "Corel has a problem and needs to close" message.
This may be the way I burn these larger projects in the future - 1. Edit and Create AVCHD/BD files on the hard drive of under an hour 2. Close the program - re open and just import the files into the Create a Disc engine of X2. 3. Burn the disc and hope for the best.
I am also looking at upgrading my computer from an Q8200 Quad 2 Core Intel to a 9550 CPU and replacing the mother board as well. Have a new case and power supply on order. Will probably build it over three months due to the expense. I got the "Corel needs to close" screen of death when I tried to burn the still photos without compressing them. I just don't think my machine has the power to do what I am pushing it to do. I did a batch convert in Photoimpact X3 of the photos, reducing them in byte size by half. No real loss of resolution - X2 created the file with the compressed images leading me to believe my computer is not as hot as needed for these projects. If I got a nickel for every time I got the "Corel needs to close" screen, I would be able to buy the new machine.
Maybe some others will benefit from our posts as we go where few men have gone before - ha
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JackTheBear wrote:Close the program - re open and just import the files into the Create a Disc engine of X2. 3. Burn the disc and hope for the best.
I think you have done exactly what Ken has been advocating in numerous threads and posts, create the files first, then burn from them. You could take a tiny shortcut though. Instead of shutting down VS and then re-opening, just click File - New Project to get the timeline empty and go from there.
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