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Have a look at this post:
http://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/3991.page#16256
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CUDA may not be for everyone:
http://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/15/4356.page#17362
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When I use PD7 to burn a HQ DVD, the conversion/compression comes out really bad in all cases. I mean considering the much lower quality of an HQ DVD burn it looks a lot worse that in should. In low light shots there's even large 'block' areas that flutter around on the screen. It looks worse than SD on an LCD to me.
Walker, I agree with your observastions resulting in my workflow being .MTS to PC>edit with PD>render to BD 1920x1080 mpeg2>use different application to burn DVD.
I use the BD files over network to the media player/plasma and burn DVDs for friends using a third party application.
AVCHD rendering is woeful. Mpeg2 SD rendering is average. Mpeg2 HD rendering is pretty good. I have inquired about the issue but with little result.
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I am editing with footage from Panasonic SD9 and Canon HF100. The audio is better on the Pana but the video is slightly better on the Canon (especially lower light - the hype about CMOS is true).
XP is fine for PD but PentiumD 2.8 won't be suitable for AVCHD. I agree with Walker (even though a fast Core 2 will do the job) I would stick to a quad.
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Hello Everyone,
Can somebody suggest which one I should choose to maximize the best quality from my camera.
I only have PD7 but if PD6 uses the same rendering engine then I recommend you make two final products. Render one using the BD 1080 format and keep this on your PC as a back up for later (as Walker says - you will eventually have a BD player). Then create a second product onto DVD. Not only do you lose definition you add artifacts when you render to DVD quality with Powerdirector. Definitely don't render to AVCHD if you have this option - it is very poor with PD and SD9 clips. (search "AVCHD" for more info)
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I haven't this problem running XP
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You don't really "capture" from a HDD or flash camera. The files are recorded in a format already compatible with PD7 (AVCHD editions ie Ultra) Try transferring the files to your PC hard drive using either Sony's own software or just windows explorer. Then use the "open file" in edit mode of PD.
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When I quickly tried it; rotated picture did not fill the frame; may have to produce it then put the produced clip in a PIP track to resize it?
Unless others have got a better solution??
Just put the clip in the PIP track to start with. Then you can rotate, re-size etc to overscan it to the desired amount.
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Sadly, I can not recall whether I already posted this problem...
If you click on your name in the main forum page you can review all your (six) posts.
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When I had the trial it placed the "PowerDirector trial version" text for only the first 5 seconds then it disappeared. Has this changed?
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Hi,
I did some testing to compare.
I used some mpeg2 & AVCHD clips rendered in both Vegas and PD.
I used the view>SVRT to determine if PD was happy not to render then burnt to folder using the disc module. I use processor utilisation in task manager to determine whether rendering is occurring.
When using the mpeg2 files > mpeg2 BD no rendering occurred. (as you should expect)
When using the AVCHD files > mpeg4 AVC BD rendering occurred even though the SVRT info indicated it shouldn't.
(Thanks for enlightening me to the Mpeg4 option in "format" - I believe I previously was choosing BDAV which does not have that option  )
So it seems PD is not happy with even it's own AVCHD rendered files when burning a BD. I wonder if your .m2ts files have parameters (ie bit rate, reference frames) which are outside the BD specifications for PD and this is causing all the files to be rendered?
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Also you can make mpeg2 or avchd with director. Its in the menu for disc.
You can make a Bluray disc (uses mpeg2) or an AVCHD disc on DVD media (hybrid disc). These hybrid discs are playable on some BR players but is not a Blu-Ray disc.
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what options are available to me with the combination of the Sanyo HD1010 and PowerDirector if I want to maintain a lossless format for the actual editing of my content?
To maintain the original data you need to use the SVRT function. It works for some AVCHD cameras and not others. Place a .mts clip into your timeline and go Directors Chair>view>SVRT info and then select the corresponding format and see in PD will render or not. If it is all green or yellow then in theory no rendering happens and the frames are copied intact to the new file.
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It seems the HD1010 is an AVCHD camera. Here are my comments:
AVCHD is not a good consumer format for editing at the moment but will become the norm.
Powerdirector is not very good at rendering AVCHD but hopefully will improve.
DV is an excellent format with good preservation of data but is not readily supported by many media players. (XBox should- after all MS was a developer but I have never owned one so can't comment)
I suggest you keep all your DV stuff as DV. Render all your AVCHD to 1080i mpeg2 as this leads to fewer artifacts with PD and is handled by most media players.
Converting your 30fps to 25fps (PAL) is likely to create unfavourable results. Send an "NTSC" disc as your UK brother is highly likely to be able to play them.
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The Blu-ray specification allows for AVC, VC1 and Mpeg2 formats. PD used 1080i mpeg2 for it's BR discs so AVCHD has to be re-encoded.
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BTW, it would be nice to fix the problem with the software overlapping the windows task bar when the software is maximized. This stinks since you have to always resize the app to get the timeline scroll bar to show up on the bottom. Please fix this...
Regards,
Robert
Mine doesn't do this.
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Googling "DV Type 1" gives this from Wiki
There are two types of DV-AVI files:
* Type 1: The multiplexed Audio-Video is kept in its original multiplexing and saved together into the Video section of the AVI file
o Does not waste much space (audio is saved uncompressed, but even uncompressed audio is tiny compared to the video part of DV), but Windows applications based on the VfW API do not support it.
* Type 2: Like type 1, but audio is also saved as an additional audio stream into the file.
o Supported by VfW applications, at the price of little increased file size.
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Hi Starchild,
I don't usually work with .vob files and so have done a little testing. PD doesn't seem to like .vob and won't use SVRT, hence will render even though they are mepg2 format.
I ran a couple of .vob files through MPEG Streamclip to "convert" them to an mpeg file (really just changes the header info etc).
PD then recognised the mpeg2 format and used SVRT and hence didn't render them - just copied.
Perhaps this might help you reduce the amount of rendering PD does for your projects.
MPEG Streamcilp is a free download.
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... and WMV HD on disk and hard drive for those who have a way of viewing it.
Hi Bif,
Why do you use WMV which reduces the resolution of your original footage? Do you shoot in 1440 or 1920?, 24p or 60i? I haven't really considered it as a format although I have tested it for rendering artifacts when I first got PD. I am wondering whether it is worth using it as an alternative to mpeg2 1080i.
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Mmmmm....I did mention something about a pointless dialogue 
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I can find no way in PD7 to change frame rate to anything but 25 and 30.
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Does it in fact output a 50i/60i file since that essentially translates to 25p/30p?
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Or is what's produced when selecting to create a BD not reproducible when creating a file?
It creates the same video file but in a folder structure which is compatible to play back on BR player. You can create a "disc" on your hard drive even without a BR burner and retrieve the resultant video file. It is the same output as from the "create file" module.
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I wish there was a tool that would actually tell me something about these files. Nothing I've found will tell me whether they're interlaced or progressive.
Try mediainfo.
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