AVCHD to Blu Ray

[Phil]

Ken,

Your post here is worth sharing. I just tried this experiment too and understand this a lot better.

My Panasonic camera produces the AVCHD H.264 and I was recording at full 1080/50p (as I look to use some slow motion in post). This is a lot of gigabytes and has to be rendered to 25fps because of the presets in creating a Blu Ray

I'm seriously thinking of recording in 720p, having a 50fps Blu Ray disc and saving time and grief with conversions. I left the H.264 as they were and it worked - no converting!

The "do not convert compliant MPEG files" does ignore these prepared files despite the overall Template displaying 1920x1080.

I did try the same technique for 1080p files @ 50fps, but VSP insists on converting the title back to 25fps. It must be the frame size of 1280x720 that slips under the radar of the 1920x1080 & 1440x1080 presets

THE KEY IS THAT YOU CLEAR THE TIMELINE, SELECT CREATE DISC, BLU RAY, THEN ADD YOUR CLIP WITHIN THE NEW WINDOW. IT DOESN'T WORK BY LEAVING YOUR CLIP IN THE TIMELINE.

[lata]

Hi Phil
yes you are correct

If you have content in the timeline when you Share Create Disc you are effectively adding a VSP to the burner module, this is not a video file and will be converted prior to burning the disc. (Convert Title stage)

Same for standard definition DVD.

[Ken Berry]

I did try the same technique for 1080p files @ 50fps, but VSP insists on converting the title back to 25fps. It must be the frame size of 1280x720 that slips under the radar of the 1920x1080 & 1440x1080 presets

Just to be clear, it is the international Blu-Ray standard as it currently stands which specifies that ONLY 1280 x 720 video can be used with 50/50 fps to burn a Blu-Ray disc. Under that standard, 1920 x 1080 and 1440 x 1080 video can only be 25/30 fps. So if you add 1920 (or 1440) x 1080 50/50 fps video to the burning timeline and want to burn a Blu-Ray disc, VS will indeed convert it to 25/30 fps -- ignoring the ticked 'Do not convert' box -- precisely because 50/60 fps video of those frame sizes are NOT "compliant mpeg files" under the international Blu-Ray standard.

Personally, I think an update of the international standard is long overdue, but when it is likely to happen remains a mystery, at least to me!

[jmone]

FYI - I've crated a Tip thread that may help on some of this - http://phpbb.ulead.com.tw/EN/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=51219