PD10 .mts to ACVHD and back to the beginning when at the end ;-)

NonnyM

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Jan 14, 2013 11:08

A couple of gripes, I have searched the forums to see if there are answers (Probably are but not with the search criteria I used)

Q1) When editing at the end of a project and the cursor gets to the end of the project, the cursor then jumps to the beginning of the project.

Its a bit irritating, is there any way of stopping the cursor jumping, rather than putting a "dummy end" at the end of the project ?

Q2) I have formed a .mts image file and want to cut it to ACVHD format. Is there an easy way in PD10 ? I cannot seem to find a way to use the image to burn the disc.

I have used Avid Studio before and as in Q1 (above) the cursor stops at the end of the project

and in Q2 (above) Within Avid , I select the .mts image already in a folder, then select burn and away goes the DVD and in within 10 mins I Have a fresh ACVHD disc.

Does PD11 get round these problems ?

Thanks Win 7 Home SP 1, PD 13
Processor i5-4460 CPU @ 3.20GHz, 3201 Mhz, 4 Core(s), (RAM) 8.00 GB, Sys Drive 120 gig SSD, Data Drive 1 Terrabyte, Nvidia GeForce GTX 750Ii , Portable USB3 2 Terrabyte

Carl312

Senior Contributor Location: Texas, USA Joined: Mar 16, 2010 20:11 Messages: 9090 Offline

Jan 14, 2013 23:28

It is just the way Powerdirector works.

If you are in Movie mode, the video on the timeline will play all the way through the videos on the timeline, and when the end is reached, the scrubber returns to the beginning.

If you are in Clip mode PD plays just the selected Clip, Plays the clip start to end that returns to the beginning of the clip.

If you pause the play, the scrubber stays where you stopped the play.

In Movie mode, Home key take the scrubber to the start, End Key takes the scrubber to the end of the videos on the timeline.
In Clip mode, the Home key to start of clip, End Key to end of clip.

Carl312: Windows 10 64-bit 8 GB RAM,AMD Phenom II X4 965 3.4 GHz,ATI Radeon HD 5770 1GB,240GB SSD,two 1TB HDs.

Carl312

Senior Contributor Location: Texas, USA Joined: Mar 16, 2010 20:11 Messages: 9090 Offline

Jan 15, 2013 09:39

Q2) I have formed a .mts image file and want to cut it to ACVHD format. Is there an easy way in PD10 ? I cannot seem to find a way to use the image to burn the disc.

You can burn a folder only in the Create Disk Module, then use disk burning software to burn the Disk folder to as many disk as you wish.

Powerdirector does not create a iso file.

There is lot of free disk burning software as well as good quality commercial software.

Cyberlink has Power2Go software. Both paid and free versions.
http://www.cyberlink.com/products/power2go/overview_en_US.html

As to how to create a AVCHD disk, the option is in Create Disk > Disk Preferences.


Filename	AVCHD option.PNG	Download
Description	AVCHD
Filesize	52 Kbytes
Downloaded:	258 time(s)

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Carl312: Windows 10 64-bit 8 GB RAM,AMD Phenom II X4 965 3.4 GHz,ATI Radeon HD 5770 1GB,240GB SSD,two 1TB HDs.

NonnyM

Member Joined: Dec 04, 2012 13:40 Messages: 51 Offline

Jan 15, 2013 13:21

Many thanks for your quick reply.

Q1) Just seems strange to me that the scrubber would jump to the beginning of the project, unless I have missed the logic as to why it should need to jump to the start. (Could be me (Got to the age where I have seen the wheel invented many times, and wondering why the younger generation seem to want to make it square )

That said, I had a brief play with Sony Vegas and the opposite seemed to happen. If you did not stop the scrubber it just went on, ... and on ... and on. Then I found the cursor 20 minutes up the timeline after the end of the project. Did not understand that either !

Also thanks for reply to Q2.

I have found a fairly obvious work around. I put the previously rendered M2ts file on the timeline, ran SVRT, and chose (as you suggested) the AVCHD DVD format. 12 minute movie DVD was cut in 4 minutes or so. (Not to be confused with the render time time previously which took a good 4 hours as it contained mov, AVI and jpgs on a flagging laptop)

Thanks for your advice

Rgds

Win 7 Home SP 1, PD 13
Processor i5-4460 CPU @ 3.20GHz, 3201 Mhz, 4 Core(s), (RAM) 8.00 GB, Sys Drive 120 gig SSD, Data Drive 1 Terrabyte, Nvidia GeForce GTX 750Ii , Portable USB3 2 Terrabyte