Is it possible to burn blu-ray discs directly from Kdenlive? Does anybody have experience with Sony HDR-TG3 with kdenlive? I didn't find mentioned camcorder from Kdenlive's list of supported camcorders, so now I wonder if it's worth do download Kdenlive to my 8.10 interpid 64-bit operated computer, I also have blu-ray station on it but at the moment I can only create blu-ray discs with Vista as I haven't found free Linux software yet for that operation. I just bought above mentioned camcorder. Unfortunately Sony's own picture motion browser doesn't have supprort to create blu-ray discs directly from software. This is a problem for me because DVD's doesn't have capacity enough as file sizes in my HD recordings are mostly over 10 GB. I need videos on blu-ray discs as I play those with another blu-ray player (Sony BDP-S350) which is connected to my HD TV. Thanks in advance

To verify minimal compliance, please create an entry for your camcorder and upload raw footage, without any kind of conversion. Set status to "Unknown" and we will enquire. Please note that since we do not use your camcorder, we cannot be 100% sure to verify compliance and that this should only be a notice.

Re Bluray, here's a link to burning HD to ordinary DVD media that many Bluray players will play as if a Bluray disk, not DVD upscaled but 20mins (4.3GB) of HD.

 

eugenia.gnomefiles.org/2008/02/23/create-blu-ray-video-in-plain-dvds-for-free/

 

btw Eugenia's website is a gold mine of info.

 

Another similar workflow:

 

www.hansalab.com/bluray.htm

 

So the question is how easy is it to create a kdenlive profile based on Eugenia's workflow for HD on DVD?

 

It's a start anyway.

A lot of DVD players will read MPEG-2 files that are just burned to disc outside of the DVD Video standard - as well as things like JPEGs and MP3 files. Some support alot of formats with MPEG-4/MP3 AVI probably being the next most popular.

If this is for personal use, you might be able to get away with just rendering a HD H.264 or MPEG-2 file and burning it to the disc as if it were just some data disc for use with a computer. You can experiment first with DVD medium before buying a Blu-ray burner. But apparantly growisofs already does support burning to Blu-ray.

 

I would also really like to figure out how to burn BluRay content onto a regular DVD (or a full BluRay burner for that matter.) I would like to send my movies to other people so that they can watch them on TV's in full HD glory, and right now this is about the only way.

As far as I can gather, BluRay players will read a file in the .M2TS container, that contains h264 video and AC3 audio. This is pretty much what my AVCHD camcorder produces. I believe that if I just burned the m2ts files off the camcorder onto a regular DVD, they would play in full fidelity and resolution through a BluRay player. (It will read a few other codecs as well but this combination seems most appropriate for me.)

Supposedly you can do 1080p in either 24fps or 29.976fps (I'm doing the latter with files from a Canon HF100.)

The problem is I can't figure out how to get edited videos rendered into this container/format. I can get them into an .mp4 format or .mov but there's no option for .m2ts rendering in Kdenlive.

Avidemux has the option of MPEG-TS as a 'format' (i.e. container) so that might be one possibility for remuxing after rendering.

I may try a few experiments, and would like to hear from anyone else willing to do the same along these lines.

It would be nice for you to create a custom render profile that does what you want and then share it on our Web site under the Contribute menu.