Making an "Proper" AVCHD DVD File from TS HD Stream of Clarke Tech or any HD box....

[Josh]

The long awaited second posting....

The thread above deals with trying to get your HD cameras AVCHD output to play in a CT5000 box if you are a cheap skate and don't want to buy a Bluray. Now you have found it's time consuming and it doesn't work very well to convert AVCHD into the CT's TS file structure, so you just bought a Bluray. If you record to SD card you probably bought the Panasonic Bluray since it's the only one that supports SD card and cuts out producing DVDs that run for 45 mins max in full AVCHD compared to 3 hours or so on a 16GB SD card that cost £16 VAT free from the Channel Island [cheaper next year].

Done, sorted, but now you want to take the output of your CT in HD [use Videoredo for SD !] and write out to Bluray. Now it's not as easy as it may seem. Some bluray system support the bluray file structure written out by TSREMUX other don't and Panasonic doesn't. So to view you have to take the TS data stream and re-render it as "proper" prosumer AVCHD. It only takes about 12 hours for one hours of programming [PC speed dependent].

So here are the instructions, enjoy [note Corel VideoStudio X2 still has a slight bug that makes some AVCHD elements in the picture twitch from time to time, a known current bug.


Making AVCHD DVD from CT5000 Originated Material via Corel VideoStudio12



1. Copy over HD files, rename directory to a sensible name so as to minimise difficult typing in DOS.

2. Rename the files to something simple, like t etc using Vista [say] again to make the DOS typing easy [the file names TRP, 001 etc, make TRP the extension 000

3. Now open DOS box, move to directory cd etc

4. Now type copy /b t.000+t.001 temp1.ts
[in this example we concatenate the file t.000 with t.001, output file should be no greater than the 4.7GB limit of a DVD, it can expand in AVCHD conversion so best to stick to just two files at a time, say one hour of programming]

5. Suggest do all DOS concatenates together using the F3 key and back cursor movement to over type, but test all produced file through TSRemux and VideoStudio to ensure output file is not too big for a DVD

6. Run TSRemux, select in the example above temp1.ts for import, select the button M2TS and also deselect the button “Bypass Audio Alignment” [we want the audio alignment to be used], deselect I/O sysch, select audio and video streams to be used and then select the output file name. In this example make it temp1remux.m2ts

[M2TS produced by TSRemux is an AVC file so is likely to be the best aligned for VideoStudio12 processing rather than the two other options]

7. Load VideoStudio, import the remuxed file, for VideoStudio 12 / Pro version can use the folder icon in the icon below the word title. Bring in and drag and drop below into time frame.

8. Use info button before clicking OK in the filename import menu to read resolution and sound stream ie. 5.1 or not.

9. Go to audio tab, take audio level to maximum and if dolby 5.1 as shown by the info button, click 5.1 to enable 5.1 recording

10. Go to share tab, click create, click AVCHD, wait for screen to come up and check that all of the file will fit to a standard DVD [use +r/w], if red bars to the right it won’t, go back to [2] and reduce the file size

11. Click next, click second button from the left at the bottom under cob wheel, if resolution shown on the info button above is different ie.1920 x 1080 then adjust so that both match, set to 18,000 MB/s [max] – this reduces problems due to rendering and adjustments for AVCHD, do this via change MPEG setting button and customize. Select under frame size the appropriate. If dolby 5.1 select under audio settings audio type 3/2 under compression tab, OK out

12. MPEG properties in resolution and audio should now match the original, click next and put a DVD in. Can delete temporary file in the work area, second button for good house keeping before the burn.

13. Click burn, this starts re-rendering. This is a slow process, expect about 8-12 hours per 60 mins of HD video. AVCHD is well known for these slow processing times on PCs.

Essentially you maintain the same pixel resolution as the original material, crank up the sample rate to the maximum that is allowed in the AVCHD prosumer standard, maintain dolby 5.1, crank to max volume and in the pre stage in TSREMUX write out to AVC and make sure that audio synch is selected [ie. un select the box] else it won't be and speech is out of synch.


Any questions.. please post here:-

http://www.satmoz.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=244