edit, splice 1920x1080 footage and author BluRay

[joviparagon]

I previously posted in Soopafresh's guide ( after 2 months of lurking, reading, crying and Rogain applications) and recieved some advice to start a new thread for my problem.

My cam: Canon HF100
My audio recorder: M-Audio Microtrack 24/96
My PC - Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 4400+ with 2GB Ram and XP pro SP2, 250gig sata, 400gig sata Raid 0, 1TB USB external, GeForce FX 5200.

Software I am used to using for DVD creation - TMPGEnc DVD Author 2.0, Boilsoft Video Splitter and Joiner.

Software on my machine that I have seldom or never used, some gotten at the recommendation of the videohelp guides - avchd_convert_v6, avisynth 2.5, ffdshow, flash_addon (mencoder), haali media splitter, Nero 8, Sony Vegas 8, TMPGEnc Xpress 4.0 trial, Virtualdub 1.8.1, imagemixer 3SE

I recently recorded my first HD vid at a concert, it came out great and I mastered up great audio (16/48)to splice to it.
I did have a few glitches in the filming and need to paste in some footage from other tapers to cover the visual gaps.

The footage is 1920x1080 29.97, the camera gave me 8 MTS files, files #2-6 should run continuously as one clip and files 7 and 8 also should be one clip.

I have saved archive copies of all the raw audio and video to an external 1TB firewire drive.

I want to assemble the audio and video in full HD quality and author a BluRay and then a 2DVD set from them. I do not want to use the cam audio as it is pretty shabby.

I am looking for a workflow that doesn't reencode is at all possible, and lets me do everything in one program ( a winning lottery ticket would be nice as well, since I am dreaming).

Soopafresh recommended the following workflow:

MTS files ---> AVCHD_CONVERT_V6 ---> Save as Lagarith AVI in VirtualDub
Vegas ---->Load Lagarith AVIs --->Load Separate Audio Track ----> Line up/sync Audio and Video --->Edit
Vegas ----> Render out to Final Lagarith AVI
TmpgencXpress---->Load Final Lagarith AVI----> Convert to HDV for Blu Ray / Convert to h264 MP4 for Youtube


I ran all 8 files through AVCHD_CONVERT_V6, but the multi part files would not open as singles in Vdub, so I used the command line from the same thread/guide to stitch them together, but then AVCHDCV6 wouldn't open the spliced file. So I went to the zoo and watched monkeys fling thier poo at the wall then decided to try doing it all in Vegas. Well it went pretty well, I seemed to be able to assemble the pieces in the order I was looking for but after adding the 5th vid clip the machine froze up, just hourglass for 3 hours, and the not responding message. I started over as the saved file caused the same lock on opening. On the second try It freezes up after adding the 4th vid.

Do I have too weak a machine?
Do I need to buy other software?
Would electroshock or a lobotamy help me?

I have not yet bought an internal BluRay recorder or even a disc player (leaning towards a PS3), but will get both when actually burning a BR disc seems possible
thanks
Dave

[jman98]

I'm not saying that you can't get help here, but the real BluRay gurus are over at the forums at http://www.doom9.net. If you end up posting there for help, I would most strongly recommend that you NOT use "boobs" in your subject as they have no sense of humor over there, none at all, and that would just about ensure you that your post would get ignored.

Your PC should be OK for what you want to do, but that "recommended" workflow looks awfully complicated to me. Never used Vegas and I'm not sure I'd recommend Tmpgenc for encoding to BluRay. You ARE re-encoding with that workflow by the way.

[poisondeathray]

I'm guessing that Soupafresh's v6 doesn't incorporate the latest dgavcdec build; there have been several recent updates.

You could try using dgavcdec manually with an avs script instead of the easy to use .bat, at least until Soupa updates it.

Good idea by jman98 if you can't get things sorted out. Donald Graft (Neuron2) is the author of dgavcdec (and countless other applications, plugins, and filters) and helps out a lot @ Doom9

[joviparagon]

Jman and deathray,

Welcome to Doom9.net - The definitive DVD backup resource

thier splash page made it seem like it was a haven for DVD piracy rather than a brainbank for guru-strength bluray , so I just moved onwith the google search and landed here, I will post a humor-free version of my plea for help over there in a few days if this quest proves fruitless
thanks again
Dave