]By request, here is a screen shot of the adjustments I made to MTS files when producing to AVCHD and burning to DVD. Also attached is an unedited MTS file. I'll try to attach the edited form of the file also.

Bill Bill Hansen

Bill,

We are making headway! Thanks for attaching the files. The sample video mts file will help a lot. And attaching the edited result will help us see what you are seeing.

Thank you very much for you patience! We will figure it out.
Kevin
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Hi Bill,
I downloaded your 75MB video Nice dog....could have got the dog to do tricks...for me.
When you create disk there are a few selections to decide on (depending on your output intentions). these are under the various disk type do not choose 'smart fit" if degrades quality my opinion,choose best quality. also what you preview is not necessarily what the actual DVD will produce on TV.
Jim
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To save yourself a great deal of time burn to folder first and play back the video from the "Stream" folder created. That is what will be written to DVD. Win 10, i7

HDedit = You recommended: " burn to folder first and play back the video from the "Stream" folder created. That is what will be written to DVD. "

This addresses another problem I've had and which I've asked about on the forum. There seems to be no way to play videos produced by PD and burned to the computer's HD. What I see on the HD are two BUP files, one VOB file, and two IFO files. The IFO files will "play", but of course they're marred by banding. The BUP and VOB files won't play at all - no surprise there.

So - if you know how I could play a video file edited in PD and saved to HD, I'm eager to know the secret. Many thanks!

Bill Bill Hansen

To James1 - Okay, now you've done it - you've given me an excuse to brag about Ariel. She's eleven years old, has had three operations for various cancers and has leukemia, currently in remission. Yet, at an age equivalent to about 88 for a human, she still charges around the house or yard ocasionally, walks 2-3 miles on hills with us, does all her AKC jumps at the same height she jumped when she was young. She has eight AKC titles in obedience and rally, is a therapy dog certified by Therapy Dogs International, and has the AKC Canine Good Citizen award. She is the cheerful, loving, playful, funny despot of our family, telling us when it's time to get up in the morning, when it's time to go to bed,time to feed the dogs, turn out the light, and so on. Second only to my wife, she is the love of my life.

About those options to produce videos and burn them to disk - I've tried every one of them except MPEG-1, burning to DVD (not BD) and all of them give me the same less than desirable appearance, far different from the Preview. Hardware acceleration on or off, SVRT on or off - doesn't make any difference. I've come to the conclusion that the Preview which is available just prior to burning (the arrow which is just to the left of the "Start burning" button) may or may not indicate how the video would look if burned to BD, but it has no relation at all to the video's appearance on DVD, no matter which format is used to produce the video. Surprisingly to me, AVCHD doesn't look any worse than MEPG-2 (which has a much lower bit rate, closer to the bit rate of DVDs).

Another forum member has been trying to help me with this, so better days may be coming - but I'll be grateful for any insights you have too.

Finally -If you know how I could play videos which are burned back to the computer's HD, please let me in on the secret. See my note to HDedit, just above this one in this thread.

Thanks - Bill Bill Hansen

HAH! I'VE GOT IT!

As usual with these things, the solution was not obvious to me, but it's too simple:
I don't know whether I should feel a bit stupid, or not. Since I've been burning to DVDs, I've been using PD 10's default "DVD" option in the "Create Disc"/2D Disc screen.

If, instead of that, I (1) produce in AVCHD, then (2)click on the "2d" tab in Create Disk, (3) choose "AVCHD" instead of "DVD" (and then activate AVCHD online), and then (4) burn my disc - all my problems go away! The resulting disc was burned to DVD using an "inapproprioate" choice in the 2D menu, but the clip now plays perfectly - almost no noise, nice details. Delightful!

The other nice thing is that if I burn these AVCHD files (see above) back to the HD, they do have the BDMV/Stream folder, which of course plays perfectly well. When I burn files back to the computer's HD using the DVD button in the "Create Disc/2D" Disc path in PD, all I get are IFO, BUP, and MOV files.

Of course, I'll have to find out whether people with less powerful computers can play these discs. I assume they can't - so for them, I'll burn using the DVD option and they'll just have to put up with the noise etc. They'll probably be much less fussy than I am anyway.

Bill

Bill Hansen

Hi Bill,
glad you have it sorted out. sounds like Areal is your winner!.
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