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Hi Adrian,
Now I understand, many thanks for explaining. It really helps, because I hadn't thought of the idea to import produced movies as building blocks for a new project.
Best regards,
Pontus
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Hi Adrian,
Thanks for your reply, much appreciated.
I'm not sure I understand how you combine several projects (or sub-projects) into one final production? Can you advice? Working with several projects as such would work great for me. In fact I already do have several projects that I want to combine. What I'm aiming for is to create one DVD movie (with VOB files, IFO files etc) readable by an ordinary DVD player.
Regards Pontus
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Hi!
Can anyone experienced help me with this question:
Is there a way to concatenate two (or more) PD projects?
I have two projects that I eventually want to burn onto the same DVD as one video. I can't find any function in PD that supports adding one project to another.
I think that it might be possible to work around this by manipulating the project files (.pds) by inserting the information from one project's pds file into the other project's pds file. The thing is how to get it right? Anyone with experience from this?
Regards,
Pontus
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Hi Jeff,
Thanks a lot for sharing your knowledge with me. It really makes sense what you are saying - the stated bitrate of 15 Mbps is probably the maximum bitrate and surely not the average one.
I'll do some further experimenting by lowering the average bitrate setting upon production.
There is an option in PD where you can select constrained VBR (CVBR) or just VBR. What would in your opinion make most sense to use when producing a file (from AVCHD as in my situation)?
Thanks again - I will post my findings after experimenting with different bitrate settings.
Pontus
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Hi Jeff,
Thanks for your reply!
The recording mode was HXP, 15 MBPS.
The Rate control setting in the default setting in the rendition seems to be CVBR, average bitrate 14800 kbps and max bitrate 20000 kbps. So there seems to be a good fit. Do you know if PD selects the rate control by checking the file(s) about to be rendered, or is it a completely manual process?
POntus
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Thanks for clarifying that AVCHD is MPEG4, I read somewhere that they are MPEG2.
I did an experiment with rendering a M2TS file from my Canon HG10 (1920x1080i) in PowerDirector with the parameters File / AVC .MPEG4 / Quality AVCHD 1920x1080.
The size of the produced file became 27MB compared to the original 12 MB, i.e. still more than double the size.
I'm still a bit confused as to why the size increases that much.
Any further help you can provide in helping me understand is mostly welcome. Many thanks.
Regards,
Pontus
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Hi pjc,
Thanks for your swift reply.
The m2ts have been copied onto my PC directly from my camcorder (Canon HG10). No conversion or modification has been done before adding them to a project in PowerDirector.
I can't really understand what's happening behind the scenes; producing an mpeg-2 file from an "untouched" m2ts" file shouldn't generate a significantly larger file compared to the original. I hope I'm right in this thinking!
I have also put together a movie consisting of approx 1.5 GB of m2ts files. Upon production, the resulting mpeg-2 file becomes approx 3.5 GB big.
Looking forward to further assistance/hints.
Again, many thanks for responding. Much appreciated.
Best regards,
Pontus
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When adding one M2TS file to the master video track, without doing anything else, the produced file gets almost double the size than the original file.
I have been experimenting with lower bitrate setting etc, but when I reach the same file size as the original file, the quality is very bad.
Why isn't there a "same as original" setting in the production parameters, so that the result is the same as regards file size and quality?
Any ideas? Please advise!
Regards,
Pontus
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