Sony HDR-TD10 Full HD 3D Rendering back to camera

MattAdamson wrote on 7/30/2012, 12:53 PM

All,

There have been various discussions on how to convert and render video from this camera so it can be shown on blu ray players. This has to be done as the 50i / 60i format isn't blu ray compatible.

However I'd like to render in the same format e.g. 50i from a few clips I've trimmed and joined together, and then copy the resulting m2ts file back to the video camera and play directly through the HDMI lead.

I tried using a format with match media settings from project properties. It chose the 50i format and rendered a file, then I renamed it to the next highest number on the camera e.g. if 000078 was present I created a 000079. However this didn't show on the camera.

Does anyone else do this? How do you export files back to the camera? I presume difficulties exist because the camera also stores separate files for the thumbnails which the camera generates and I may have to also generate?

Appreciate your thoughts

Thanks

Matt

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MattAdamson wrote on 8/4/2012, 12:20 PM

Appreciate if anyone has any thoughts.

For others that have this camera how do they manage clips they edit and then want to save back into a single M2TS file.

Thanks

mudsmith wrote on 8/4/2012, 9:45 PM

I know nothing about 3D, but have had nothing but smooth sailing rendering to 60i for BluRay, and I am quite sure that 50i would work equally well.

There are many templates in Vegas for rendering to these and other formats for BluRay.

MattAdamson wrote on 8/6/2012, 2:15 AM

Thanks mudsmith,

Unfortunately the 50i / 60i blu rays in format don't appear to play in 3D through the camera when copied or from a 3D Blu Ray disc created from the timeline.

PeterDuke wrote on 8/6/2012, 6:37 AM

I transferred a video file back to my AVCHD camera, but I used the supplied transfer program to do it: PMB (Sony Photo Movie Browser).

Wolfgang S. wrote on 8/6/2012, 11:19 AM

Matt,

that has been a request that has been come up again and again. But since 1080 50i/60i is not 3D-Blu-ray compatible, to my opinion that cannot be done with Vegas. The MVC-encoder is not able to perform that operation.

You could use the PMB as Peter suggests - but with the limited editing capabilities that is not fun (to my opinion).

Or you could use the Mainconcept AVC-encoder to render a top-bottom-full or side-by-side-full, and use the stereoscopic player to playback the footage. Or use the Sony AVC encoder as sbs-half or top-bottom-half.

But for MVC and 1080 50i - no way in Vegas since that is not foreseen for BD. You could render to 720 50p, what is not such a huge drop in qualty as people believe, since they oversee that resolution of 1080 50i/60i is reduced due to interline flicker anyway, compared with 1080 50p/60p - so 720 50p/60 is not really much worser compared with 1080 50i/60i, but sure it is a conversion in terms of deinterlacing and resizing.

PS: I would like to have that too. But then the beloved Blu-ray consortia would have to revise the outdated Blu-ray specification, that allows 720 50p, 720 60p or 1080 24p for 3D-BD only.