Shimmering video

[DeeG]

I am just starting to build HD videos to play on my BluRay player. I don't yet have an HD camcorder so I wanted to learn the process by building some HD slide shows using 10 Mpixel photos. I built several slide shows using Pinnacle Studio 14 in both 720p and 1080i so I could compare the image quality. I prefer the 720p for photo pan and zoom since it avoids interlace artifacts.

So far I have built two different slide shows at 720p. They each use different photos and different music, but I followed the same process. Each video is about 18 minutes long.

For each video I created an MPEG-2 with Studio. Those files play just fine on my computer. So I think my produced video is fine.

I then use Studio to burn the MPEG-2 on to a DVD disk using the AVSHD format.

Both disks play on my Blu-Ray, but both exhibit a similar problem. The first 10 minutes or so is fine, but then the video starts to shimmer really badly. It isn't just image crawling caused by the pan/zoom - the whole picture wiggles wildly on the screen like it is on a rubber sheet that is being jiggled.

This shimmering goes on for about 30 seconds on one disk and over one minute on the other - and then it cleans up again.

I assume there is a problem with the disk, but I don't have a second player to verify that. My BluRay movies play fine. The player is a Pansonic DMP-BD55.

Does anyone have any idea what would cause this gross shimmering or how to fix it?

Much thanks.

[johns0]

Did you watch the video on your computer before you burned it to see if the problem is with encoding it?

[DeeG]

As I mentioned in my post " Those files play just fine on my computer. So I think my produced video is fine. " It only shows the problem on the AVCHD disk. The MPEG-2 files are clean. I suspect the error occurs when it is re-encoding to burn the disk.

I just played it again and paused while it was acting up. It looks like blocks of pixels are misaligned vertically. Each frame the columns of blocks are aligned differently, so it looks like the image is shimmery like it is on water.

[johns0]

I meant the authored files,did you check to see if they play ok?If they do then its most likely the quality of the media and/or a bad burn.

The files dont need to re-encoded if they are 1280x720 to be authored and then burned.

[DeeG]

Let me see if I understand correctly. By "authoring files" do you mean the file structure that is burned on to the disk rather than my MPEG-2 video production? If so, I was not aware that I could play those files.

I burned directly to disk using the AVCHD format selection. I think all of the temporary files get deleted once it completes. I think I can I burn to a file instead, but then can I play them somehow? If so, how?

Maybe a more fundamental question should also be asked. Am I following the right process? slides -> MPEG-2 -> AVCHD ->DVD disk -> BluRay player. Or is there a better way to produce HD videos to play on my BluRay player?

[johns0]

The fundamentals are right,play the disc on your computer,if you dont have any blu-ray software player then go to my computer and open the disc and go to BDMV/STREAM and play the m2ts file with media player classic home cinema and see if the file plays ok all the way through.

[DeeG]

I am not able to open the disk on my computer. Whenever I select my DVD burner drive I get a Windows error indicating that Windows doesn't recognize the format of the disk. If I insert it in my DVD player drive it doesn't do anything. I can't read the disk from Windows Explorer in either drive. I do not have a BluRay drive.

Is there some software I can install that will let me read the disk and play it on my computer?

[johns0]

Try TotalMedia Theatre 3 trial version,it plays avchd dvds.You dont need a blu-ray drive to play avchd dvds,a regular dvd drive will be good enough.

[danno78]

I am not able to open the disk on my computer. Whenever I select my DVD burner drive I get a Windows error indicating that Windows doesn't recognize the format of the disk. If I insert it in my DVD player drive it doesn't do anything. I can't read the disk from Windows Explorer in either drive. I do not have a BluRay drive.

Is there some software I can install that will let me read the disk and play it on my computer?

You need UDF 2.50 driver instalated to see in Windows Explorer AVCHD files.