Hi everyone
A short while ago, I treated myself to a Canon HG10 AVCHD Camcorder. I got it to take films of the birth of my cat's first litter. The pictures really are fantastic, but - how to put them to disc ?
The Canon came with some software, but it's not much good though, so i looked around for something better. I thought I'd found it - Sony Vegas 9, platinum pro
So easy to edit with, but will it make an AVCHD - no chance
So I tried Vegas Pro 9 - no chance. The architect software that came with platinum doesn't do high def, but the demo of architect pro says it does AVCHD, which is what I want
There's an instruction in the Sony 'How To' section on this site that says burn it as a BluRay, but onto a DVD. What comes out plays in my computer, but not in my BluRay stand alone player (Panasonic BD 35)
I've seen in other forums that the BD35 doesn't really like AVCHDs, so it looked like I was out of luck, but then, just to make sure I tried the demos of the latest versions of editing programmes from Pinnacle, Corel and Magix and surprise, surprise, they can all make an AVCHD that my BD35 can play
So, it looks like it's the Sony software that's not quite right
All the other programmes let you choose from DVD, BluRay or AVCHD, not so Sony, only DVD or BluRay. There is a template for AVCHD but that only appears in the multi-media CD burn option
I have found a way to make it work, make the disc in Sony as a BluRay, then take it into TSMuxer, (this freeware allows you to chose AVCHD as an output) then burn those files as a DVD using UDF2.5. I used imageburn and - Voila !! I got a AVCHD that plays in my BD35
Not what I expext though from a piece of software that's cost me £70, and certainly not what I'd expect from pro software costing over £500, new
Some of you may wonder what TXMuxer does. well, it doesn't re-code anything, all it does is change the index plus 2 other files on the BluRay disc to contain the number 100, rather than the 200 that the Sony makes
You can see this in a hex editor.
And, Yes, I did try making BluRay in the other editing programmes. Surprise, surprise, those files contain 200
When I made AVCHDs with them, the index files etc contained 100
I've already raised this matter with Sony Technical, but I'd be interested to hear what other users make of the problem
Dave
A short while ago, I treated myself to a Canon HG10 AVCHD Camcorder. I got it to take films of the birth of my cat's first litter. The pictures really are fantastic, but - how to put them to disc ?
The Canon came with some software, but it's not much good though, so i looked around for something better. I thought I'd found it - Sony Vegas 9, platinum pro
So easy to edit with, but will it make an AVCHD - no chance
So I tried Vegas Pro 9 - no chance. The architect software that came with platinum doesn't do high def, but the demo of architect pro says it does AVCHD, which is what I want
There's an instruction in the Sony 'How To' section on this site that says burn it as a BluRay, but onto a DVD. What comes out plays in my computer, but not in my BluRay stand alone player (Panasonic BD 35)
I've seen in other forums that the BD35 doesn't really like AVCHDs, so it looked like I was out of luck, but then, just to make sure I tried the demos of the latest versions of editing programmes from Pinnacle, Corel and Magix and surprise, surprise, they can all make an AVCHD that my BD35 can play
So, it looks like it's the Sony software that's not quite right
All the other programmes let you choose from DVD, BluRay or AVCHD, not so Sony, only DVD or BluRay. There is a template for AVCHD but that only appears in the multi-media CD burn option
I have found a way to make it work, make the disc in Sony as a BluRay, then take it into TSMuxer, (this freeware allows you to chose AVCHD as an output) then burn those files as a DVD using UDF2.5. I used imageburn and - Voila !! I got a AVCHD that plays in my BD35
Not what I expext though from a piece of software that's cost me £70, and certainly not what I'd expect from pro software costing over £500, new
Some of you may wonder what TXMuxer does. well, it doesn't re-code anything, all it does is change the index plus 2 other files on the BluRay disc to contain the number 100, rather than the 200 that the Sony makes
You can see this in a hex editor.
And, Yes, I did try making BluRay in the other editing programmes. Surprise, surprise, those files contain 200
When I made AVCHDs with them, the index files etc contained 100
I've already raised this matter with Sony Technical, but I'd be interested to hear what other users make of the problem
Dave