AL7.2 still trundling on, doing useful work here in Oxfordshire. Unless / until I find a replacement for my trusty Canon XH-A1s, I'll save my pennies... :)

Robox: Steamage:- Could you explain how you are avoiding the introduction of intermittent macroblocking appearing in your Blu-rays?  I am assuming you are working with at least colour correction, possibly other effects which before fusing first need to be rendered by Liquid. In my tests on 2 different computers I have found macroblocking ...

Thanks Dave. I'd forgotten about the VST support - doh! That opens up 2 possibilities: a simple phase-inverter on the copied Side track, or a full MS Stereo processor that takes the M/L and S/R inputs and gives you knobs or sliders for all the parameters. The first one I've found is Voxengo MSED, and looks like there may be half a dozen others. ...

Has anyone tried mixing mid/side stereo in Liquid? How did you get on? Is it easy or difficult?   The microphone set-up for M/S is a directional mic listening straight ahead (Mid) recording to the left channel and a figure-8 mic listening to left and right (Side) recording to the right channel. Because of the way that a figure-8 mic ...

The good news is that I have found a program, called ReStream, that edits MPEG2 video-stream parameters. You have to de-mux programme- or transport-stream files first, but it successfully changed the BitRate_Maximum parameter, so that AL7.2 and AW4 reported the files as ''25 Mbps''. Both programs imported and played the ''fixed'' file with no ...

Just in case this rings any bells with anyone, here's what I've discovered so far: I've used MediaInfo to look at the MPEG parameters associated with the video stream in various files. The significant difference between files that work OK (including AL fuse outputs) and the ones that give trouble appears to be the BitRate_Maximum/string setting. ...

LewS:I have had similar problems using the Aunsoft converter to make mpeg2 files. Fail to fuse or render. Someone I talked to the other day had similar problems with mpeg2's from Sorenson. Seems like Liquid does not like those converted files for some reason. Sad to say, but I think Liquid's time has passed. In order to use Aunsoft and be able to ...

I'm trying VLC Media Player's ''Convert'' function, but so far without success. Specifying 25000 kp/s gives a file that AL7.2 thinks has a bitrate of 106Mbps! Surprisingly, it imports and plays the file OK. Unsurprisingly, Fuse fails on the first frame!

Looks like the mistake is in the original MPG files created by Studio. I imported one into a TMPgenc Authoring Works project and checked the clip properties there. It also thinks the bitrate is 35000 kb/s. I guess the mistake is in the meta-data or file labelling, since VLC shows the data rate it is actually receiving and displaying - 25000 ...

I realise that VLC is able to convert between various formats, including changing MPEG2 Program Stream to Transport Stream, which I think is the important difference between .MPG and .M2T. However, this hasn't had the desired effect:The converted file jumps when played in AL7.2The clip properties still say 35Mbps and the video appears to be ...