Adobe Media Encoder says H.264 Blu-ray but exports .m4v

Zblock

Zblock

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I need to export a Blu-ray version of my movie. From Adobe Media Encoder I chose the H.264 codec because I think it gives me the best quality with the smallest files sizes. My 80 min film is about 8gb's at final export and looks great.

However I can't view the .m4v file with anything on my computer and as far as I can tell this is NOT a blu-ray file. Can anyone walk me through this?

While I'm at it I'm having other problems as well. I'm trying to output to an MPEG2 so I can burn to dvd but the exported file is about 10gb and looks really pixelated, and noisy. Can I get a higher quality looking video? But won't that make the file larger? What are my options?

I need to export both a dvd file and a Blu-ray file so I can burn dvd's and blu-rays. I'm also planning on putting some extra content on the disk so I'd like enough room to add a 5 min short and a 45 min behind the scenes feature.

PLEASE HELP. Can you let me know your steps to do this with the best quality and the smallest file sizes? How is this done professionally???

Thanks. Z
 
VLC, ITUNES, DIVX, Quicktime, WMP. None of them work.

I called a dvd authoring place in LA and here's what I got.

The .m4v file will work to burn to blu-ray without a conversion. But the guy suggested I export to dvcprohd 1280 X1080 HD but that doesn't seem right since I shot the video at 720.
Another concern of mine is file sizes. My MPEG2 export is 10 gb. That's too big to burn to a dvd. How else can I compress the files? I'm already unhappy with the loss of info. Maybe it will look better exported on a dvd than it looks on my computer.

Has anyone every exported from Adobe media encoder to P2 Movie dvcprohd? Won't that be RAW uncompressed files? And thus almost 200gb in size for an 80 min movie?

Also, some interesting info. The costs of getting a master Blu-ray dvd for duplication is about $1700. Or I can buy Blu-Streak software for $300 and do it myself. Apparently theres a lot more that goes into making a disc than just exporting the correct file type... AND I CAN"T EVEN GET THAT RIGHT!!!
 
Has anyone else had problems exporting a long or big file in H.264? Mine has severe playback issues after 40 mins. Pauses, Black screens, catch-up.... Blah blah blah.
 
My understanding is that mp4 is the correct file format for blu ray. I'm not 100% sure if this is what you are looking for, but I had an issue where I was trying to export from AE to the H.264 format and it would give me a strange error and other initial options only gave me a m4v format, but I wanted an mp4 file and not an .m4v; to do this, there is a work around by selecting Quicktime (in AE), then I have to select the Format Options. In here, the default compression for Quicktime is animation, but there is a drop down where you can select H.264 output, which gives me the highly compressed mp4 file I want. I have no idea why output options work differently for AE than from Premiere or Media Encoder. You may try replacing the entire sequence with an AE comp and try exporting from AE. There should not be any loss from doing this versus using Media Encoder (according to Adobe's website).
 
the .m4v is an h.264 elementary stream, meaning that it doesn't have any of the metadata that allows media player to successfully play it back.

Mixing it into a .mov or .mp4 container will allow it to play back. YAMB is an easy program.

Adobe Encore, and Adobe Premiere also handle the .m4v files that AME generates fine as well if you need to validate your export.
 
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