Make Movie question

Viddy wrote on 8/12/2014, 3:04 AM

Hi there

I have been using MS12 for a good while now and it never ceases to amaze me how versatile and full-featured it is for the cost. However, I have come across something which I can't see any options to tweak... Make Movie.

In the past I have used various rendering options from MStudio. I make MP4s, MPegs, M2t etc. regularly. I am living in a PAL system country and so always strive to render my videos at 25fps. The software projects are always set to 25fps (PAL).

More recently I have started creating Blu-ray discs using MStudio to render out the timeline with the SonyMovieStudio "Make Movie" option. I find it convenient. Then I pull the video and audio streams into DVD Architect (v5) where I create the Blu-ray layout. I then use DVD Architect to create the Blu-ray ISO and finally use ImgBurn to actually create the physical disc in my Samsung burner.

I have been pleased generally with the results but am puzzled because...

When I use MediaInfo to look at the "m2v" video stream created using "Make Movie" option from MStudio it has been rendered as a 30fps video type. I don't know why it doesn't keep my very obvious PAL 25fps setting which is all set up in the project preferences. There is no option that I can see where I can ask the "Make Movie" option to retain the 25fps. Is this normal?

I feel that if my project is set to 25fps, all my footage is 25fps, then surely the "Make Movie" should know that I want 25fps?

Am I missing something here? To be honest I only noticed that this was happening recently (I had kinda assumed the 25fps setting would follow through to the 'Make Movie' option). My Blu-rays play okay through the TV, but I feel that I want to keep my PAL 25fps unchanged. Surely by changing the render to 30fps my video is being unnecessarily tampered with.

I would be grateful if anyone has answers as to why this should be the case.

Many thanks
Viddy

Comments

Steve Grisetti wrote on 8/12/2014, 7:24 AM

Is it possible your Movie Studio or DVD Arch are configured for NTSC rather than PAL?

Chienworks wrote on 8/12/2014, 7:45 AM

Look for an [Advanced] button. Clicking that should give you some additional options.

I wouldn't ever use Make Movie. It's just to simplistic and limited. It uses a lot of preconceptions about what you might want to do and steers you in that direction whether appropriate or not. I always use File / Render As, which gives you all the menus and options up front.

Viddy wrote on 8/13/2014, 12:25 PM

Hi Steve

Many thanks for your post. I am sure that I have set everything I know of to be 25fps PAL within Movie Studio. It is Movie Studio that is decding to create the 30fps Blu-ray *.m2v renders from its timeline (which is all definitely set to 25fps).

I am not aware of anywhere else I can make any further changes to the settings. I have checked "Project Properties" and "Options Preferences".

Regards
Viddy.

Viddy wrote on 8/13/2014, 12:37 PM

Hi Chienworks

Thanks for your suggestions. When I select the "Make Movie" option there is no "Advanced" button anywhere during the Make Movie procedures. That is why I am thinking it should at least copy the frame rate that my project is set to (i.e. 25fps).

I realise that "Make Movie" is a simplistic approach but, apart from the rogue 30fps it does seem to create decent Blu-ray video and audio streams.

I do often use the "Render As" option to create other video formats and I guess that's what I might have to do. Would you suggest using a render setting something like the Sony "AVCHD 1920x1080 50i" as being the choice from my project timeline? That produces a *.m2Ts video.

Or, would you choose Sony "Blu-ray 1920x1080, 16mbps Video Stream" which produces a *.avc video file. I guess I would need to render out an audio file separately then.

I realise that one of the above will probably work - but am still more puzzled as to why Movie Studio "Make Movie" decides to change my project to a 30fps format. Is this possibly a bug in the software? Or is there somewhere else that I haven't discovered (as suggested by Steve) whereby I haven't set up Movie Studio correctly (i.e. it thinks I am NTSC).

It's a weird one.

Regards
Viddy