Burning M2TS files to BD-R

[hockeyman99]

Question for the forum. I'm a novice at authoring Blu-Ray DVDs. I have a PC running Windows Vista. I also have a Blu-Ray burner. I took raw M2TS files from my Canon camcorder and burned them to BD-R media using Windows Vista. I played them on my Blu-Ray player and the quality doesn't seem to be high-def. I'm not sure if its the video I shot, the burning process, the camcorder, or something else. Will just burning a BD-R DVD using Windows Vista create a high def disc or do I need to do something different? Any suggestions would be appreciated.

[smrpix]

If your files started as HD, there's nothing in the process you described that would have changed it. Check your camera settings and source files. Let us know.

[transporterfan]

If your files started as HD, there's nothing in the process you described that would have changed it. Check your camera settings and source files. Let us know.

I second that.
Also, I think you may benefit if you were to check the settings on your TV.
Have a play with the contrast and sharpening. It can work wonders.
Ditto for the camera settings.

[turk690]

I have a PC running Windows Vista. I also have a Blu-Ray burner. I took raw M2TS files from my Canon camcorder and burned them to BD-R media using Windows Vista. I played them on my Blu-Ray player and the quality doesn't seem to be high-def. I'm not sure if its the video I shot, the burning process, the camcorder, or something else. Will just burning a BD-R DVD using Windows Vista create a high def disc or do I need to do something different? Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Vista has DVD-maker built-in and if you used that it will dumb down and re-encode all acceptable HD sources and create a legit DVD, which is happily just SD. Not sure how you were able to use a blu-ray blank for that. Can you open up that disk in explorer and display here a snapshot of its contents? On its own, there is nothing in windoze itself that will create a full-compliant blu-ray disc with HD files as source, such as those that came from your canon (I assume they are HD because, unlike Sony which allows some MPEG2 SD modes, a Canon AVCHD camcorder will only create HD). Assuming the files are already blu-ray compliant, you have to install a separate blu-ray authoring program to do that. Look at the tools section of videohelp.

[transporterfan]

Good point. I assumed the OP meant he had just burned his files as data.

[smrpix]

I second that...