AVCHD to Blu-ray, not to DVD

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handymus

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I am not sure if this has been answered before, but I am looking for an easy way to make an AVCHD Blu-ray disc. I can easily make a dvd-5 or dvd-9 AVCHD disc, but due to the size limits, I want to make an AVCHD blu-ray disc.

Can you do such a thing? Have you done this, and what are some good tools that you can use?

This makes sense to me, since there should be no trans-coding of the AVCHD footage from the HMC150. When I go to make a Blu-ray disc, the program always transcodes the AVCHD footage. If there is an easy way to do this, please let me know.

I am currently using Nero 10 for authoring simple discs, and you can author ACVHD discs, but only to SD, HDD, and DVD's - no Blu-ray option.

thanks for your help.
 
Hmmmm....lots of views...no solution? That's ok, I found one!!

MultiAVCHD. Awesome program, and best of all...it's FREE. That's right, I said F R E E !

http://multiavchd.deanbg.com/

It does exactly what I want...takes the native AVCHD from the camera, makes menus - chapters etc., then burn to any # of formats.

Learning curve is a little bit of a pain, but loads of options, and no transcoding at all. I wondered why - when you are making a blu-ray out of the AVCHD footage you have to re-encode all of it, even with no edits. Not anymore. Here is my workflow - if you are interested. I shoot mainly theatre productions, so I have to deal with big files.

copy the footage from the card to the PC. Not the AVCHD folder...don't need it.
Combine the multiple split .MTS files into one using MTS merger.
Load up MultiAVCHD, add files, create menu - add audio, pictures etc...
Start the process to the media of my choice...in my case Blu-ray disc. The footage is too long to fit onto a DVD-9, and I don't want multiple discs, and I don't want to transcode.

MultiAVCHD creates the blu-ray file structure, and menu(s) quick as a flash.
Then burn on BDR-E to test. If all is well, then done.

Very fast, same quality as you shot the footage. Perfect if you can live with the menu system and don't need to make edits. It can make very simple edits, but that's not what it was made for.

Total time to process my last shoot with 2 files...one 50 minutes, the other 45 - with motion menus with audio...5-10 minutes. The only process that took any amount of time was the encoding of the motion menus. (windows XP, intel Quad core)

Hopefully you find this post helpful!

handymus
 
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handymus said:
Am I the only one here that does ACHD to Blu-ray discs? Do all of you transcode?
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Hello, handymus.
A friend of me owns a camera of (european) Panasonic`s 700’s series which puts out its signals in 1080p/50 frames.
But most of our NLE-programs could not (yet) edit this 50-frame-progessive signal. They transcode them.
Could he also try to use this MultiAVCHD-program for burning a BD for regarding his 50p-AVCHD- footage without transcodings (and without edits) - on his FHD-TV. So he could see his shots natively on a (native) 1080p/50-Display.
Greetings from Germany.

 
I make blu-ray discs quite frequently. I edit in final cut pro, export my completed project as a quicktime movie, and then drop that file into toast 10. Toast 10 will do all the encoding and then burn a blu-ray disc. Since it looks like you're on a windows machine, this may be no use to you.
 
Im editing in edius straight avchd, then exporting to caonpus hq codec and burn using tmpeg authoring works... wich sadly only supports mpeg2 in high bitrate so far but still loks quite good.
 
I use the CS5 suite, edit in PP and create BR Disks in Encore. Works great! I also use BluRay to backup all of my files, as soon as I come home from a shoot, I copy the footage to my HD and then burn a BR.
 
handymus said:
[....] since there should be no trans-coding of the AVCHD footage from the HMC150 [....]
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It would be somewhat optimistic to think that you can take HMC AVCHD, do anything like a complex edit and output to Blu-ray without the footage undergoing transcoding along the way.
 
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