Ken42
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"When I render to an AVCHD format (Sony AVC/MVC, AVCHD 1920x1080-50i)"
Try 1440 X 1080.
Try 1440 X 1080.
Ken42: The problem doesn't appear when I render to 1920x1080-50i, this file format plays seemingly perfectly because it matches the project settings and the output from the camcorder. The AVCHD files play perfectly, as does an AVI file I tried, it just appears to be the Main Concept MPEG-2 format that isn't rendering correctly...
Graham: I couldn't get Super to work with any files whatsoever, so I stopped trying. The camcorder is a cheap Panasonic HDC-SD10, which has recorded all my footage in HA mode, which I believe is 1920x1080-50i at approximately 17Mbps.
I'm currently trying my same project but rendering at a lower quality for the MPEG-2 file to see if this works any better. If not, I might consider trying to implement the memory cap fix and returning to version 10, if you think it's worth the extra effort and won't upset the running of version 11 (just in case I need to return to it if version 10 has the same problem)...
Hi Graham, I have Win7 on a 64-bit machine, pretty much the standard these days. However, my laptop is 32-bit and Super returned the same errors on that.
Using another program was something I did consider - there was some software that came with the camcorder (HD Writer AE 1.5?) and I also have a genuine copy of Corel Video Studio Pro XP which can handle HD files, in fact I used the latter originally to create copies of the camcorder rushes as MPEG-2 files so that I could view them on the laptop at my leisure, and never had any issues with any of the mpegs - if I had I would've been reaching for the camcorder to re-shoot them! I ditched Pro XP because I didn't like the 'dumbed-down' interface and felt far happier using Vegas Movie Studio.
The low quality Main Concept MPEG-2 file is just as littered with glitches so I'm re-rendering what I believe is the final edit of the movie to AVCHD one last time. Providing this file plays back OK I can try and use this in DVDA or Corel Pro XP to create my DVD copies, I just don't understand why this format is not working as it should. It must surely be a bug or a 'bad' encoder, it just doesn't make sense to me...
I've managed to get DVDA up and running again - apparently I made the 'mistake' of applying the update when DVDA wasn't running. Despite searching for the program I couldn't find it, and even though build 157 appeared in the system even Windows couldn't find it! I resorted to uninstalling build 157 and re-installing build 128 from disk, then ran the update before shutting the program down. After being prompted to reboot, which I did, all seems to be well now.
The PCM version of the DVD appears to be suffering from the same problems of 'pumping' volume although at first listen it doesn't appear to be as noticeable. Maybe the .ac3 format is too compressed? Certainly the PCM file is around ten times the size. Once more the visuals from the DVD appeared to play back perfectly, which is a total mystery to me...
Well done CongratulationsThanks vkmast, I'm pleased to report that all 'our' hard work was worth it and I gained first place in the competition!
Many thanks for everyone's help