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I have an HP Z800 machine to which I have just added a second processor Xeon X5660 with 48GB of ram. If I now try to produce an mvc file it crashes. If I set the bios to turn off one of the processors it works ok. Has anybody else running a dual processor machine had this problem?
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Thankyou for the pdf it is very usefull. I did manage to get this to work with 2D but not 3D. I have put a ticket in with cyberlink so we will see what they say.
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Thanks for your reply. I have tried this but just cannot get it to work with the latest version of PD 10. My main interest is with 3D blu-ray but I tried a 2D file and that would not work either. Are there any options I need to set to do this?
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Been investigating this a bit more. As far as I can see the format is based on the AVCHD version 2 spec so these disc will only play in players which can recognise this standard. The specs are not publicly available but I guess the bitrate has been capped to make this compatable with more players. The picture quality would be improved if Cyberlink fixed to dependant bitrate problem. For me the quality is just not good enough and so it looks like I will have to abandon PD 10.
Sony vegas pro will burn Blu-ray 3D discs with the proper format but with no menus. The overal bitrate is also higher at about 25 Mb/s.
My Sony TD10 camcorder came with some software called PMB. This will burn menu less AVCHD blu-rays without re-encoding the video. So this at the moment will gives the highest quality.
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I do appreciate that this is a cheap package and I was not expecting anything special. I did expect it to confirm to the standards to ensure compatability with all players. I expect that PD 10 discs my not be playable with higher bitrates. The ssif file interleaves the two streams inorder to minimize the head movement and optimize throughput. You could be correct about licencing fees.
I tried playing back the my Blu-ray on a 2D player did not work very well on complex video. I have a shot of people swimming in a pool and the player stuttered with that.
The other odd thing is giving the dependent stream the same bitrate as the base stream. This is a non optimal way of doing things.
I have just checked and found that mvc files produced by PD 10 also have the same bitrate problem.
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After producing a 3D Blu-ray using PD10 I find that the discs are not according to the standard. The stream directory does not contain a SSIF direcory containing the SIFF files. Instead the STREAM directory contains m2ts files with the base and dependent streams multiplexed. This does not conform to the Blu-ray standard.
Another issue is that both the base and dependent streams have about the same bitrate of 8.3 Mb/s. The spec recomends that the bitrate of the dependent stream only needs to be about half that of the base stream. This bitrate is far too low and is not changeable.
Authoring 3D blu-ray was my reason for buying PD 10 but I am very disappointed in what I have found.
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There is no industry "standard" bitrate as such. The Blu-ray specification alows combined 3D streams up to 60 mb/s. This usually means the main stream has a maximum of 40 mb/s and the secondary stream of 20 mb/s. Lower bitrates are used to be able to get longer videos. I have found that PD 10 produces a 3D blu-ray with an overal bitrate of 8.3mb/s which is very low.
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I found this for PD9 but I have not been able to get it to work for PD 10 with 3D blu-ray.
http://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/15004.page
Can anybody help.
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I bought PD because of the 3D support but there are 2 features I would like to be added:
It would be nice to be able to import Cineform 3D files. This is a faily easy thing to do as Cineform just multiplex the left and right eyes as seperate streams in an avi container. At the moment I have to demultiplex into seperate left and right files then using premiere pro create a full side by side file.
The other feature is to support importing 3D as two seperate files. Several camera systems produce output in this format. and again this should be very easy to implement.
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Thanks for the profile.ini hack I managed to produced a 50i mov raw video. Why on earth are these options not on the menu options.
I tried the microsoft avi formats and I only got uncompressed option and it does not support HD.
I wondered if there is a hack for the 3d Blu-ray encoder as it is fixed at a fairly low bitrate.?
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OK I found the secret of DZM files. Infact they are RAR files so if you change the extension to rar and double click on it winrar will unzip the file into aload of XML files. Now how to decode the xml!!!
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When I try to encode a video with the RAW mov format there is no way to specify the frame rate or if the file is interlaced or progressive. When I tried encoding a 50i video it produced a file at 29.97.
The reason I wanted to use this was that it seems to be the only true lossless format supported. It is a great pitty that PowerDirector does not support Video For Windows or DirectShow encoders. I would love to use cineform in PD.
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Please can someone give me some clues. First of all it seems the only way to generate dzm files is to "share" them on DirectorZone. Also DZM files are not xml files so I assume they are in some compressed format. Does anyone know how to convert DZM to xml.
The xml for the menus seem to be burried in the application data. The crazy thing is that a root menu with one motion thumbnail is virtally the same as a titles menu in Menu Designer so Cyberlink could easily add this functionallity to the Menu Designer.
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Thanks for your reply Dafydd.
Yes I know I can use existing menu templates but the problem is the size, position and shape of the thumbnail is not editable. I wanted to create my own menu. I assume that these menus have been created by modifying the xml files as it is not possible in the menu editor.
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Many of the example menus have a motion thumbnail in the root menu. Please can you tell me how to implement this as I cannot find how to do this with the menu editor.
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