Working with 60fps files

[Peter+]

Hello,
I have VideoStudioX7 and a Sanyo Xacti full HD vdeo camera as my source. The mp4 files I recently shot using this camera are as follows: 1920x1080, data rate 26690Kbps, total bitrate 26830 Kbps, frame rate 59 fps, audio 140Kbps
I would like to keep the project output file in a lossless state i.e. keep the same bit rate and fps values without loosing any quality. When I go to the 'Share" tab and try to create a new MP4 profile I don't see the option to use 59.94 fps (the highest rate is 30 fps) and the highest bitrate accepted is 20000Kbps. Am I missing something or doing something wrong?


Peter

[RobertOZ]

Hi Peter and welcome to the forum,
First of all, in Preferences/General make sure that "Show message when inserting first video clip into the Timeline" is ticked
When you place the first clip into the timeline, a message box will appear asking if you want to change the project settings to match the videos properties, select Yes
Go to Share and tick box "Same as Project Settings"
Your rendered video should now match your original properties.
I also have a Sanyo HD 1010 camera and have never had issues matching properties

[Ken Berry]

In Preferences > General, have you ticked the box beside "Show message when inserting first video clip"? If you do, then when you insert the first clip into a new project, you should get a message asking if you want the Project Properties to match those of the clip. Then when you do your editing, you can go to Share, and at the very top, you tick a box beside "Same As Project Properties", and you should then get a new video clip with all the Properties of the original...

[Peter+]

Gentlemen, Ken and Robert, you got it. Thank you guys. That's what I was missing. I saw the "Show message..." option under Preferences but somehow I did not connect the two. I was concentrating on creating a custom profile that would fit the characteristics of my files. I still don't understand why the 60fps option is not available when creating a new custom mp4 profile. There are couple of 4K profiles which have the 60fps rate.

One more question: Under the 'Share' tab I have MP4 and AVC/H.264 (among other formats). I did some testing using the AVC/H.264 format and I got a .m2t output file. I did some quick research but still cannot understand where one would use this format. I know that my .mp4 files also follow the H.264 standard. Why would I want to save my video files in .m2t format and would it play on TVs and other media devices?
Once again thank you for your quick response to my first question. This is my first visit to the forum but I think I will be here more often as this seems to be a better source of information than the user guide.
Cheers,
Peter

[lata]

Hi Peter

The AVC/H.264 creates compatible video files suitable to burn a Bluray disc, or AVCHD Hybrid disc. They are transport stream using the file extension MT -- MTS or similar M2TS

Each DVD / Bluray Player may have different capabilities but in general, but yes they should play on your TV system via USB provided you own a Bluray player, otherwise changing the files extension from MTS to MPG may fool the player.

Render a short movie to a few formats, add all to a USB stick to see which your players like.

Ken mentioned using Same as Project Settings, there is also the option for Same as first Video Clip
Assuming the first clip in the timeline is your MP4, then the details in the properties panel should show your videos properties, what are they?

[Ken Berry]

FWIW, I create a lot of AVCHD .m2t files with VS (as well as .mp4). And all of them play quite well from a USB stick or external hard drive plugged into my Blu-Ray players of choice (two PS3s) which are connected to my HDTVs via HDMI.