Best format to render in AVCHD 1080 60p

Techleigh wrote on 7/10/2011, 7:45 PM
I have a Panasonic HDC-SD600 camera and have shot some video of my daughters soccer game. The camera shot the footage in 1080p 60fps (Panasonic's own brand of AVCHD).
LOoded files into VMS 11 and cut some footage off, added a balloon title, some music to add background to drown out the wind and then overlapped the bits of footage to get a dissolve effect.
Now tried to to encode in Sony mp4 1080 60p, 1080 30p, 1080 25p (as PAL TV) and now as 1080 60i AVCHD

All the files that are produced have a blurred effect where there is a moving object such as a ball in the foreground. I had upgraded the camera from a Panasonic HDC-SD60 1080i 30fps camera because of this problem.
Is there something I am doing wrong. The settings for the project are matched to the 1080p 60fps and the computer has no problem encoding the footage.
Would really like to be able to produce some footage that looks good.
The original clips I shot on the camera when loaded onto a USB drive look great when displayed via the USB plug on the front of my Bluray player, but off the same drive the editted and encoded videos look not so good.

Any help appreciated

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musicvid10 wrote on 7/10/2011, 8:19 PM
1) Match your project properties to your media settings.
2) Right click on your video events and disable resample.
3) Unfortunately, 60p is not a valid BluRay format.
michaelt wrote on 7/11/2011, 12:54 PM
"All the files that are produced have a blurred effect where there is a moving object such as a ball in the foreground. " - can you see this effect when you playback directly from the camcorder on TV via HDMI cable?

I have Panasonic TM90, and also shoot 1080p60 . Here is the best flow I found so far:

1) Render as Sony AVC 1080p, 60fps, set the bit-rate to 24mbps (keep in mind, this is an average bit-rate, the peak will be higher).

2) Render audio to AC3, 256kbps

3) With tsMuxer combine video and audio into one .ts file. Some new media players and blu-ray players can play this file via USB (you might need to lower bit-rate slightly if it stutters - mine plays up to 30mbps peak) .

But here is my favorite part:

4) Use multiAVCHD to create AVCHD structure specifically for Panasonic camcorders (you can even specify the model). Then copy&paste this AVCHD directory back to your camcorder - now you can watch the footage directly from your camcorder via HDMI cable.

Both tsMuxer and multiAVCHD are free programs.

Experiment with this flow (and the bit-rates) on a small footage to see if it works, and if it solves the problem.