Panasonic TM700 and VMS 11

M Peters wrote on 6/13/2011, 2:22 PM
Here is what I would like to do:

Take the MTS file created by the TM700 in VMS 11, edit it, render it to an AVCHD file format with 5.1 surround sound and burn that to a DVD dics that I can play in my Panasonic Blu Ray player.

I tried this with VMS 10 but it would not work and moved over to Corel Videostudio Pro X3. After some trial and error, I was able to accomplish the above in Corel.

Now VMS 11 is out and I would like to see if the above will work. I prefer the Sony interface to Corel expecially the flexibility that Sony offers.

I have downloaded the new version and have tried to render the Panasonic 1080 60p, MTS extension, directly out of the Camcorder with no luck. I inserted the MTS file, set project properties to the select MTS file, selected Make Movie (Save to hard drive) and choose the HD 1920x1080-60p template. From there I choose the Customize Template and made changes in the Audio Tab to Surround Sound at a Bit Rate of 384,000 and to the MPEG-2 Transprot Stream under the System tab.

The result was a streached video in slow moton with the sound being at normal speed.

If I used the HD Writer Software that comes the camera to take the MTS file and covert it to an M2ts file, I could get a working video using a customized version of the AVCHD 1920x1080-60i template.

Has anyone been able to use the MTS files out of the camcorder to create and AVCHD DVD using the new VMS 11 and DVDAS 5.0?

If I cannot get this to work then I have to go back to the Corel software.

Thx

Comments

Eugenia wrote on 6/13/2011, 2:36 PM
What you get there is [almost] correct. 1080/60p is not supported for playback by the Blu-Ray standard and so these BD players can't deal with it. The BD player probably tried to decode as fast as it could, but it could only do so at half speed, that's why you got the delayed video. You will have to go 60i if you care about AVCHD/BD disks, or 720/60p.

Personally, I would not record in 1080/60p yet. See, BD does not have a provision for it, while youtube/vimeo cap at 30p anyway. The only way to watch 60p is to either go 720/60p, or go 1080/60p but only watching it via your PC, via a fast decoder/player (e.g. the accelerated CoreAVC decoder). The only other possible use of 60p is to shoot as such just so you can slow-motion it in the timeline, e.g. 60*0.800=30 fps timeline, or 60*0.400=24 fps timeline. I'm afraid that 24p, 30p and 60i are still kings in terms of online and TV hardware support.

>I was able to accomplish the above in Corel.

Wanna bet that Corel was either using 720/60p or 1080/60i under your nose?