Produce MKV - Not as I hoped

duckysan1

Newbie Location: Victoria, BC, Canada Joined: Aug 29, 2014 12:17 Messages: 11 Offline

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Aug 29, 2014 12:41

Have just tried to render to MKV for the first time, not wanting to invest in a BD burner to suit longer projects. Here's what I found:
1. Standard settings result in an unwatchable, stuttering movie when played with VLC.
2. Creating a custom profile and setting to 'Baseline' (the out-of-box was set to 'High') resolves this whilst retaining the 15500Kbps, 1920x1080, 29.97 frame rate.
3. Subjective evaluation of picture quality is it SEEMS washed-out in color compared with the AVCHD project I created earlier. Maybe I'll push the bitrate to 24000 and see what happens.
4. No chapter points are created - rather surprising as this should be a no-brainer feature

Anybody have any info that can assist?

Thanks, Duckysan i7 4790, 16Gb, Gigabyte Z97, GTX460, 500Gb Seagate SSD, WD 2Tb Black, Win 7 Pro x64

Carl312

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

Aug 29, 2014 15:24

Quote: Have just tried to render to MKV for the first time, not wanting to invest in a BD burner to suit longer projects. Here's what I found:
1. Standard settings result in an unwatchable, stuttering movie when played with VLC.
2. Creating a custom profile and setting to 'Baseline' (the out-of-box was set to 'High') resolves this whilst retaining the 15500Kbps, 1920x1080, 29.97 frame rate.
3. Subjective evaluation of picture quality is it SEEMS washed-out in color compared with the AVCHD project I created earlier. Maybe I'll push the bitrate to 24000 and see what happens.
4. No chapter points are created - rather surprising as this should be a no-brainer feature

Anybody have any info that can assist?

Thanks, Duckysan

The condition of your computer will greatly effect how some HD video will play.

Part B
http://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/29701.page
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duckysan1

Newbie Location: Victoria, BC, Canada Joined: Aug 29, 2014 12:17 Messages: 11 Offline

Aug 29, 2014 15:35

Thanks Carl. Bang up to date and installed recently - i7 4790/16Gb/480Gb SSD/WD 2TB Black/GTX460.

The MKV produced by PowerDirector is the only one that stutters - everything else in HD is fine.
As I mentioned, setting as 'Baseline' sorts the problem completely.
Rendering at 24000kbps subjectively improves the quality.
I do believe though that Cyberlink should look to includeing the chapters during the MKV render. I'd prefer to be archiving my memories on the NAS rather than using optical. i7 4790, 16Gb, Gigabyte Z97, GTX460, 500Gb Seagate SSD, WD 2Tb Black, Win 7 Pro x64

Carl312

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

Aug 29, 2014 18:35

Quote: Thanks Carl. Bang up to date and installed recently - i7 4790/16Gb/480Gb SSD/WD 2TB Black/GTX460.

The MKV produced by PowerDirector is the only one that stutters - everything else in HD is fine.
As I mentioned, setting as 'Baseline' sorts the problem completely.
Rendering at 24000kbps subjectively improves the quality.
I do believe though that Cyberlink should look to includeing the chapters during the MKV render. I'd prefer to be archiving my memories on the NAS rather than using optical.

You can create a disk folder on your hard drive (NAS).

You would need a Video Player application to play the disk folder.

None of the Produced video formats include chapters, the only method for chapters is in the Create Disk Module, You can create that Disk folder on your hard drive by unclicking Create Disk and Checking the Create Disk Folder in the final output window.

PD 12 Image guide for Menu.
http://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/29745.page

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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.

duckysan1

Newbie Location: Victoria, BC, Canada Joined: Aug 29, 2014 12:17 Messages: 11 Offline

Aug 29, 2014 18:50

Thanks Carl.
I added chapters to my mkv file using mkvmerge. A bit painful having to create xml chapter file though. The result is great playing through my DNLA server to WD TV Live player.
However, my point remains that mkv is a format that supports chapters (and subtitles) which means it should be technically possible for Powerdirector to take the chapter points from the project and create the file.
i7 4790, 16Gb, Gigabyte Z97, GTX460, 500Gb Seagate SSD, WD 2Tb Black, Win 7 Pro x64