Hi Andy,

I'm sure many others are grappling with a similar wish as to how to get the best but, quoting from the forum header :-

"This is a forum for CyberLink members to discuss and share their users' experience. CyberLink customer support will not reply in the forum regarding the technical issues."

There is no-one here that works with CL. Dafydd, as moderator, has a channel to CL in certain cases but otherwise we are all just users - so unless anyone fancies writing up a 'guide' and asking Dafydd if it can be a stickie, I'm not sure your question will be answered.

I know PD7 had some tips and resources from users here:-
http://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/3522.page

I can't help as I shoot with a Sanyo and .mp4 and I don't burn to disc.

Maybe others will help out if the suggestion is put to them?

Cheers
Adrian



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@Andy
I fully agree to your opinion. Since HD or even FullHD are still in construction there seems to be no unique answer.

What I found out is, that AVC output quality is clearly below the original. Above all movements are an issue for AVC rendering. There is a lot of smoothing and I found artefacts too. The best quality and the best speed is provided by MPEG-2. Unfortunately this variant requires the most disc space (see an example in attachment).

The bitrate is only an example. This is to be investigated by you. The standard is 19700 but since my camera records AVC this doubles the file size.

Artefactum,

I could not see any attachment. Please advise.

I found a current solution. I produced a bunch of AVC movies, saved them on a 8Gb C-Flash card and watched them on Playstation 3, connected to by USB. To tell you the truth, I was quite pleased with the quality. With an exception of occasional artifacts the quality of the videos was comparable to the original movie, watched straight from my Sony camera. I am telling you, the quality was indeed superior to Hollywood movies in DVD format. I am glad I upgraded my SD video camera to Full HD.

I will try to burn these movies (in AVC format) onto a DVD soon and play on Playstation.

p.s.
1. I tried copying the movies onto a portable 1TB hard-drive. Playstation 3 would not see it somehow when connected. Do you know why?

2. When producing movies I would check boxes like: x.v.c. Color and Dolby 5.1
My PC with Windows Vista platform would play the movies in Windows Media Player without sound. The sound will be present if I leave Dolby 5.1 box unchecked. Am I missing an Audio Codec? Where to get it from.

3. Have u tried burning Blue-Ray discs?

4. I read a post on here saying not to use portable storage devices for watching movies as USB connection has reduced speed. I noticed no problems so wondering why such a misleading info.
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Quote: Artefactum,

I could not see any attachment. Please advise.

I found a current solution. I produced a bunch of AVC movies, saved them on a 8Gb C-Flash card and watched them on Playstation 3, connected to by USB. To tell you the truth, I was quite pleased with the quality. With an exception of occasional artifacts the quality of the videos was comparable to the original movie, watched straight from my Sony camera. I am telling you, the quality was indeed superior to Hollywood movies in DVD format. I am glad I upgraded my SD video camera to Full HD.

I will try to burn these movies (in AVC format) onto a DVD soon and play on Playstation.

p.s.
1. I tried copying the movies onto a portable 1TB hard-drive. Playstation 3 would not see it somehow when connected. Do you know why?

2. When producing movies I would check boxes like: x.v.c. Color and Dolby 5.1
My PC with Windows Vista platform would play the movies in Windows Media Player without sound. The sound will be present if I leave Dolby 5.1 box unchecked. Am I missing an Audio Codec? Where to get it from.

3. Have u tried burning Blue-Ray discs?

4. I read a post on here saying not to use portable storage devices for watching movies as USB connection has reduced speed. I noticed no problems so wondering why such a misleading info.

I wonder why the screenshot was not included. The screenshot isn't important. It should show the settings I chose.

I try to answer your questions:
1. I don't use Playstation but Western Digital Media Player. It has two USB interfaces and works with portable USB devices satisfactory. In the meantime there are some more similar products on the market.

2. Sorry, no experience with it, since my camera records only stereo quality; I recommend the KMPlayer for PC playing. It has much more features (e. g. screenshots) and is faster than VLC.

3. No. Currently I store my movies on disc-drive. Camera records only 720p and the upscaling to 1080i would cost quality.

4. I agree to you.

Did you compare the output in AVC with output MPEG2? I found out, there is a lost of details, above all in scenes with fast movements. On the German forum there is an ongoing discussion about minor render quality compared to Pinnacle Studio with PD8. The input format also seems to impact it. I use PD7 and this is ok with my AMD 3500. I am afraid, PD8 will consume more processor power.