AVCHD to Bluray in Pal?

[high_revs]

I'm trying to burn some camcorder files taken from relative's vacation tour. My camcorder is set to HD and the files are in AVCHD format (mts file extension in windows explorer). For testing, I managed to burn some unto 1 DVD and in PAL format. Since I don't have a PAL compatible player, I also burned one DVD in NTSC. The quality was much lower than expected but at least it works (in NTSC format to play in my player)

I do have a bluray burner so now that I know the basic process, I downloaded the plugin for bluray burn. The s/w I'm using is the one that came with the camcorder - Sony PlayMemories home. However, it's complaining that it cannot burn the current format to what I want - bluray and in PAL. I tried both options of burning 50p or 50i/25p (basically the s/w will convert the video)

I changed the movie quality to the lowest HD to give 'em more recording time since I only had a 32GB SD card. But the camcorder says it's compatible for bluray in the screen.

Thoughts how to make this happen? MY internet search-fu is kinda weak this morning and I can't find the right info if this is possible (burn from avchd to pal and bluray)

[meaty-btz]

NTSC= 480i resolution... Of course it will look like crap
For HD you want a minimum of 720p

DVDs are actually MPEG files and they can be a variety of resolutions and compression ratios. a Proper DVD-V will be 720 in NTSC compatable mode at best... but of course your TV affects the video quality..

What looks good on an old low res TV will look like garbage on a Computer.

Convert to a high quality MPEG then burn that MPEG to dvd that will usually give the best resolution as DVDs can have quite high quality (super-bit, very high bit-rate)

Just make sure your video is in progressive.

[high_revs]

yeah, i want to burn it into a "p" not interlaced. problem is, the s/w won't burn the avchd straight into bluray either in ntsc or pal. (yeah, i knew the dvd would be crap, but it was a little too much crap i guess).

i can always just burn it as a mp4 into a bluray (10gb file). i'm trying to convert it right now and see if it'll burn into a bluray as a video file (aka not a data file that would require a computer). still converting since it's a laptop circa 2007.

[meaty-btz]

yeah, i want to burn it into a "p" not interlaced. problem is, the s/w won't burn the avchd straight into bluray either in ntsc or pal. (yeah, i knew the dvd would be crap, but it was a little too much crap i guess).

i can always just burn it as a mp4 into a bluray (10gb file). i'm trying to convert it right now and see if it'll burn into a bluray as a video file (aka not a data file that would require a computer). still converting since it's a laptop circa 2007.

That is just it, a DVD IS an mpeg.. it isn't being transcoded. Unless the settings are wrong DVD-V in a good bit-rate will be as good as the original MPEG file.. and 720p looks pretty good, not 1080p good but still pretty good.

Something must be going off the rails somewhere along the line. Most software for DVDs is crap on a stick anyways so I can understand the difficulty. I did a Video Yearbook for an elementary class years back. The challenges were higher than expected! One of which is getting the video output to be the right standard and quality. That was using very good software (all top shelf stuff). The free stuff is bad bad bad. You might consider taking a risk and look into some of the more challenging but often better end result Open Source products for video manipulation and DVD burning. The learning curve for using command line to manipulate things might be a bit much but I have always gotten better results using FFMPEG and open source DVD burners.. maybe it was just that I learned more about what I was doing when I started doing things that way so I actually understood what the hell I was doing rather than just clicking some "high quality" mode button.

[Libtard]

Are you trying to burn a Blu-ray or a DVD? They are different. Blu-ray is high definition and uses different compression than DVD. AVCHD is HD, therefore, not a DVD format. NTSC and PAL are DVD formats. In Blu-ray, the NTSC/PAL equivalent is to use 50 vs 60 frames per second, although HD TV's in Europe can play the 60 Hz content just fine. So AVCHD 1080p60 should burn to Blu-ray and work in a Blu-ray player.