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Thank you Carl. I had missed the pack project elements and you have kindly confirmed that audio is bundled in the video folder. This time around I will write myself some better notes!
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It is some time since I confronted this issue when I last made a video production, with Power Director 11, and alas I have forgotten the answer. I am now on Power Director 12.
It is how to convert out of PDS to other formats.
I think the procedure is to generate a DVD and then use a conversion software to convert the M2TS. However, the DVD details indicate 2 folders on the disc:
AUDIO_TS
VIDEO_TS
The AUDIO_TS folder appears to be empty, so I am assuming that the sound track(s) are all bundled in the VIDEO_TS folder.
Do I simply load the VIDEO_TS folder to the conversion software?
If I have any niggles with Cyberlink it is the lack of facility to generate exports from its PDS file(s)
There also seems to be no option to save the PDS assembly safely anywhere, once the Production is completed???
Advice appreciated please.
Michael
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CARL312 - one more question! I have downloaded a trial Nero 2014. In the Nero video section I have successfully imported my M2TS video file. But I can't see where to generate the .iso copy. Am I in the wrong section? There is also I notice 'Nero Recode'.
Sorry if I'm being dense.
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Thanks also, Stevek.
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Thank you, Carl. I'll give it a go.
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I do appreciate this, Longedge, but Fortium Patronus does successfuly eliminate the more readily available copying e.g. people using Nero. I still want to find out how to create an ISO package while retaining my AVCHD/M2TS format. I can't believe that this is too difficult, but answers are eluding me!
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OK, I understand this (sort of). But it's not answering my basic question, alas. I have a video in AVCHD high definition, and it has been produced by Powerdirector 11 into M2TS container file format. When I burn this via the Powerdirector 11 burning facility it clearly retains the AVCHD quality. No problem there.
In order to protect my video with Anti-rip software, it is mandatory that I deliver it to the Fortium anti-rip programme as an ISO file. So the unanswered question is whether there is any means on the market (surely there is?) that will allow me to package, as an ISO file, my high definition AVCHD/M2TS packaged video, or am I going about things in the wrong way? I purchased a disk burning software that generates an ISO file, but doesn't retain the AVCHD quality.
The encryption/decryption process used by Fortium Patronus is not a problem because they also provide the burning software. The problem is how to get the AVCHD.M2TS available to their software as an ISO file.
My knowledge of AV conversion processes is still in its infancy, which is why I need to some straightforward practical advice from you guys! Trying to make contact with Internet software conversion firms is generally blocked or 'no longer available'.
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Thanks for this, Carl. However, all is still far from OK! I have done a trial burn using the recently purchased software that creates the ISO file, but it is less than satisfactory since the frames now 'judder' slightly in each section of the video where there is camera movement. I have selected interlacing, and opted for High Quality. So my quest is still on for a disk burning software that will create the ISO file, but just as importantly retain the AVCHD/M2TS quality that I have been impressed with using the Cyberlink Powerdirector software. If it burns OK using the Powerdirector facility, where am I going wrong?
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I have at last resolved my problem of generating an 'iso image file from my .m2ts file. Somebody has pointed me to a DVD image creator called Aimersoft. When you burn a disc it also provides a tickbox giving the option of saving an .iso file. Brilliant!
If anyone has a similar perplexing problem of how to get from .m2ts to .iso - that's an easy way to do it.
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I posted a query recently on this issue inadvertently on PowerDVD, but didn't get anywhere, so here goes again.
Using Cyberlink PowerDirector 11, I generated a video and produced it. This resulted in an m2ts folder of 2 files - a video_TS and an audio_TS. I then burned a DVD - so far, so good.
The problem has arisen when I want to convert that m2ts files/folder into an .iso folder. Why? Because the Fortium Patronus anti-rip software that I want to protect my videos with will only accept a ***.iso format.
I can discover no means of converting my nice m2ts video into .iso
Please can somebody help. I bought a programme called Aiseesoft M2TS converter, but can't find any file extension .iso
I can convert to M4V and various other formats but I need .iso
Michael J.
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I posted a query recently on this issue, but didn't get anywhere, so here goes again.
Using Cyberlink PowerDirector 11, I generated a video and produced it. This generated an m2ts folder of 2 files - a video_TS and an audio_TS. I then burned a DVD - so far, so good.
The problem has arisen when I want to convert that m2ts files/folder into an .iso folder. Why? Because the Fortium Patronus anti-rip software that I want to protect my video with will only accept a ***.iso format.
I can discover no means of converting my nice m2ts video into .iso
Please can somebody help. I bought a programme called Aiseesoft M2TS converter, but can't find any file extension .iso
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I have a problem that I hope somebody on the Forum can help with. I need to protect a Cyberlink PowerDirector 11-generated video that I have made with Fortium anti-rip software, but I can only use the anti-rip protection if the production is first converted from the present m2ts format to iso format. I can't discover how to do this, or what software will reliably facilitate the conversion. I need to convert the m2ts file that is on my hard drive before burning a disc. Sorry about my ignorance on this one!
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Another very useful tutorial to store away. Thank you again Tony and Carl for your kind support. In my professional career I worked as a BBC TV presenter, and I now dearly wish I had paid more attention to what goes on behind the camera, and in the sound engineer's cans!
Michael
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Thank you Tony, for your time and trouble That's very helpful, and, as you say, works well. I did not feel competent enough with the Boost and Dynamic Range functions, and I am still very dim about understanding the Equaliser. The Equaliser presets from<31 to >16K are what I now need to learn about.
When you indicate 'slightly increased Dynamic Range Compression, did you mean towards Highly Compressed, or towards Full Dynamic Range??
Sorry for more questions, but as indicated to Carl, this is my fast-track leaning curve in audio mastering!
MichaelJ70
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Carl, thanks as always for your kind and helpful answers. I am on an interesting learning curve!
MichaelJ70
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I think I may now have discovered at least one potential answer to my problem, resorting to a free post-production mastering software that has both treble and bass lift/suppression. Applying a +5 to the treble and a -5 to the base, and then running normalisation, has improved the sound quality of the clip measurably.
However, I have another beginner's question! In order to use the audio mastering, the audio has to be extracted. Having done this by right clicking the clip in the video library, how do I sync the audio back again to the video, assuming that I have only edited the sound quality, not either speed or length?
MichaelJ70
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Apologies - first attempted this with too large a file. Here is a short 10 sec extract. Thanks for the kind offer.
MichaelJ70
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First of all, thanks for the kind responses to date.
These were among the first pieces to camera that I recorded last year for a project, using a Rode Lavalier mic with a wind sock on. But, not being used to the equipment, the mic may have been positioned badly on the lapel. Subsequent use of the Lavalier with better positioning has produced much crisper results. There is no b/g noise on the clips at issue, but the output sounds dull i.e. there is little audible top end to the register.
I admit that the VST plug-ins leave me a bit baffled. I've never used them before and so are 'foreign territory' at the moment. Testing them sounds like a journey into the unknown! Where do I start?
Using Wave Editor I have tried altering the pitch shift by +1 and it has improved matters somewhat, but still could be better. At +2 it starts to sound like the Chipmunks (if you are 'mature' enough to remember the Chipmunks).
Michael J70
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I have a couple of audio clips, shot as pieces to camera where, probably because of poor placing of the mic, the voice sound is slightly muffled compared with others. It would be difficult to replicate either piece and so I need to crisp up the sound quality of what I've got in post-production. I know there are various post-production audio software programmes available, but can this be achieved using Cyberlink Wave Editor? I can't work out how. I have tried changing pitch but it just starts to sound Mickey Mouse. If it can be done in Wave Editor, could someone explain. If not could somebody recommend software that will do the job. Is the solution to invest in Audio Director? I don't want to part with the money until I know it will do the job.
I quote from an online article: Audio Post Production Techniques for Spoken Word: "Post-production offers a huge expanse of technical and creative capabilities where the spoken word can be fine-tuned to sound crisp and clear." That's what I want, but I don't yet know how to get it!
MichaelJ70
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I'm actually using PD11, as of this week upgraded from PD10, and like it very much, so that provides the answer to your first query. PD10 and PD11 will accept AVCHD, but they will not allow me to make basic cuts to raw clips and allow me to return them to my library as AVCHD. I am making some quite complex educational videos from large numbers of clips, and I was finding that my 'raw' video library was taking up an awful lot of hard drive space without some basic trimming out of 'dross'.
However, having Googled for more information about keyframes, and checked out their use in PD11, I am inclined to go along with your suggestion and ignore them!
MichaelJ70
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