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15th November 2010, 10:03 | #1 | Link |
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Converting camcorder AVCHD to standalone Blu-ray disc?
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(I was hoping maybe multiAVCHD could do this but it's not clear to me if it can.) I have a Canon HF-11 camcorder that records in AVCHD. The 16 GB SDHC cards are given "CANON" as the Volume name and laid out like so: Code:
./PRIVATE: AVCHD/ ./PRIVATE/AVCHD: AVCHDTN/ BDMV/ CANON/ ./PRIVATE/AVCHD/AVCHDTN: THUMB.TDT* THUMB.TID* ./PRIVATE/AVCHD/BDMV: BACKUP/ INDEX.BDM* PLAYLIST/ CLIPINF/ MOVIEOBJ.BDM* STREAM/ ./PRIVATE/AVCHD/BDMV/BACKUP: ./PRIVATE/AVCHD/BDMV/CLIPINF: 00000.CPI* 00003.CPI* 00006.CPI* 00009.CPI* 00001.CPI* 00004.CPI* 00007.CPI* 00010.CPI* 00002.CPI* 00005.CPI* 00008.CPI* ./PRIVATE/AVCHD/BDMV/PLAYLIST: 00000.MPL* 00001.MPL* 00002.MPL* ./PRIVATE/AVCHD/BDMV/STREAM: 00000.MTS* 00003.MTS* 00006.MTS* 00009.MTS* 00001.MTS* 00004.MTS* 00007.MTS* 00010.MTS* 00002.MTS* 00005.MTS* 00008.MTS* ./PRIVATE/AVCHD/CANON: 00000.MPL* 00002.MPL* INDEX.BDM* 00001.MPL* CINDEX.TMP* THUMB.TID* But I'd like to be able to create/author "normal" Blu-ray BD-R discs that will play in normal (i.e. old) Blu-ray players that don't support AVCHD-formatted discs. I'd like to be able to, for example, send a Blu-ray disc of my travel videos to family members, or a video of a concert I shot to a fellow music-loving friend, etc. So far, I've only been able to figure out that apparently Roxio Creator on Windows definitely can do this, and probably others as well. (I have Windows 7 in Boot Camp, so if absolutely necessary I suppose I could go that route.) Toast 10 has a "Blu-ray" tab that will accept video and write it out (with a main menu and chapter markers) but it worked "too fast" - and it looks like it creates Yet Another AVCHD Disc, albeit slightly improved with the aforementioned main menu. In other words, I want my Oppo to recognize the final disc as a normal "BDMV" Blu-ray disc, not as an "AVCHD" disc. Can multiAVCHD do what I want? Anything besides Roxio Creator that does it? If so, any particular recommendations? (I'd LOVE to have a Mac program that does it, but I have this sinking feeling that there aren't any.) Last edited by Riot Nrrrd™; 15th November 2010 at 12:06. Reason: Typo |
15th November 2010, 11:40 | #2 | Link |
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MultiAVCHD should understand your footage. Just in case it doesn't, try first to join them (if needed) then remux them in tsremux/tsmuxer. In the case even this method doesn't work, author the AVCHD disk as you're used to and use the reauthoring function of multiAVCHD upon the AVCHD-disk to obtain a BD.
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15th November 2010, 12:12 | #3 | Link |
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Danke schön
Forgive me, but I'm a Mac guy so I'm not familiar with multiAVCHD and TsRemux/TsMuxer. Why would I need to "join them" - do you mean creating one giant 00000.MTS file from the constituent files? And what kind of remuxing would be necessary? Right now I "author the AVCHD disc" by basically telling Toast Titanium 10 Pro on a Mac to import the footage from the SDHC card (during which it seems to automagically convert the .MTS files into .m2ts) and I could tell it to create a disc image file instead of going directly to BD-R. Then I could mount that Toast image and drag any files from it to multiAVCHD as required. |
15th November 2010, 13:13 | #5 | Link |
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Update: Looks like I was wrong! I thought Toast had made another AVCHD disc, but when I watched the Oppo closely after it loaded the disc, it said "BD" not "AVCHD"!
So, maybe I won't need some fancy-pants Windows app after all. One problem I am having, however - Toast treated all the .MTS files as separate "clips", so when I play the thing, after the first "clip" is over, it goes back to the main menu instead of going on to the next "clip" |
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But now it's kind of funny, check out my last post - I actually wouldn't mind it if it kept each file separate, and treated them as essentially ersatz "Chapter markers" of a sort. Update: Looks like I overlooked a "Play all items continuously" check-box in Toast (d'oh!) when I made the first disc image file, so I'm going to try it all over again and create a new disc image with the changed settings. Last edited by Riot Nrrrd™; 15th November 2010 at 13:20. |
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15th November 2010, 13:44 | #7 | Link |
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AFAIK the splitting of recordings are byte-wise and not GOP-wise, that is, the recording must be binary joined, individual processing of the parts would drop the affected GOPs and the video would "skip".
I would use the software that came with the camcorder to do the joining (and/or the "capture"/import), then I would use the tools I mentioned and/or you used. |
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Luckily I am burning these onto 25 GB 4x discs I stole from work so I can afford to burn a few coasters Edit: One twist on this situation: 9 of the 10 files are 24 Mbps, 1920x1080. The very last file was shot at 12 Mbps, 1440x1080 because I was running out of time on the SDHC card. Will that screw up any attempts to remux all of these 10 .MTS files together? Maybe I should keep the last one separate by itself ... Last edited by Riot Nrrrd™; 15th November 2010 at 15:01. |
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