Blu-ray loses video/audio for second/FIXED

[Colleen]

Hi Colleen
If both Img Burn and Cyber link are showing the same problems then it would suggest that the original BDMV or video files used to create the BDMV are the issue.

OK I thought I would go back to the beginning after getting my new computer. I opened each project and re rendered a new video file in case the old ones were bad. I then created my menu and burned bluray folders. All the folders looked good. Then I burned a disk and played it on my Sony Bluray player.

Again all the same spots blacked out. Transitions (Fade to black, Hinge rotate, crossfades), title crossfades, and start and end of color overlays behind titles. And not every transition had an issue. The first 5 and 10th videos with transitions were fine. The videos 6-9 had glitches.

I have previously used all these in other videos, burned with success with the Pioneer and played on the Sony player without glitches.

[Colleen]

I thought maybe it was my bluray player going bad so I tried a neighbor's player. The blackouts happen on her player also.

I copied a file from the bad disk to the computer and it plays fine.

One question, when you apply a transition to a video and then render that file shouldn't that transition become one with the video. Why do all these blackouts happen at rendered transitions?

[Ken Berry]

Yes, they should be converted to video and become one with the project stream of video.

When I use transitions, I use Crossfade 99% of the time. I am wondering if you can try a short experiment by not inserting the actual Crossfade transition, but instead dragging the start of the second transition a little over the end of the preceding transition. And do the same for succeeding video clips. This in effect creates a crossfade effect without actually inserting a transition. Then make that into a DVD if you don't mind using one of your discs (or perhaps do it with a rewritable disc). And see how that goes in your player...

[lata]

Hi Colleen
We must be missing something?
As you have created a Bluray compliant video file you should play that video file to check quality
As Kens thoughts on transitions, if there is a problem in the way you added transitions it should show on the rendered files before burning a disc.

If the quality is good, that is no black spots then as a test you should be able to use that video file to burn a Bluray folder

Within that folder is a Stream folder which should contain your video file, maybe some files for the menu, but playing the main video should play ok
Are there any black spots.

[Colleen]

Trevor,
Yes I created Bluray compliant files and checked the rendered files to see they all played fine. Then I made my Bluray folders and checked the stream folder files to see they all played fine. All the transitions work. I burned a disk and played it back in a Bluray player and some of the transitions cause total blackouts/no audio for a couple seconds.

I tried playing the disk in my burner back to my computer and it's fine. I tried copying a stream off the disk back to my computer and it's fine. I tried a friend's Bluray player and the same blackouts occur.

It feels as though the computer and the Bluray player are interpreting the transitions differently, but only some transitions not all.

[Colleen]

Ok checking my files I found I changed file types when I got a new camera (I hadn't noticed this). I had previously been editing .m2t files without any issues. Then I got a new camera and the files are .MTS. The new files are the exact match to the video files that have blackouts.

My Bluray has 10 videos. The first 5 are .m2t files or .mp4 and play fine. The next 4 are .MTS files and have blackouts. The last one is .mov and plays fine.

I was able to edit and render the .MTS files, but they show blackouts at transitions on the final disk. How do I handle .MTS files? Do they work with any versions of VS?

[Colleen]

With the increasing technology for HD TV playback many are now using a USB memory stick to play the video rather than burning a disc, although there will be no menu structure, just an alternative option

I tried using a memory stick. I copied one video from the stream folder on my computer and plugged it into the usb on the Sony Player. When it played back it had all the same blackouts as the disk.

At this point it has to be something about the .MTS files with overlays or transitions. It only happens with these files not my older files that are .m2t. And how the computer interprets the rendered files vs how the player interprets the files. Maybe the computer can see more info?

Has anyone had success with .MTS files with transitions that have gone as far as burning a BR disk not just viewing results on their computer? If they have had success, with what VS version?

[lata]

Your finding that the black frames are showing on the stream folder rules out the actual burn to disc

And yes I work with mts files and have never had problems like this.
I cannot believe that it is the files extension as mts,m2t, or m2ts
Afaik Mts are direct from the camera, rendering those creates m2t, burning to create a Bluray changes the extension to m2ts
Neither of these formats should be causing these issues

Are you sure that when you added transitions that you added them across two clips and not added a transition to one clip

Adding a transition to one clip, crossfade for instance would fade to black then play the second clip and that maybe what you are seeing
How you added your transitions is something you need to check / verify

[Colleen]

After reading through other threads I came across an issue with flickering at transitions. It referenced unchecking the enable smart render to fix this problem. I just re-tried one video unchecking smart render and then making bluyray folders and then burning a disk again.

It worked! Hopefully this solved the problem. I will re render all my files and re do my full bluray later to test for sure.

[Colleen]

I was able to re render all my files with the smart render unchecked and re burn my Bluray. All the blackouts are fixed when viewed on both the computer and the Bluray player.

Unfortunately I can't trust checking my work through the computer before burning a disk. I had been verifying each video file after render and again after making Bluray folders and all had played fine. But what the computer interpreted and what the Bluray player interpreted were not the same.