Bluray export HELP!!! It is just not looking good.

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mattd35

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I have been searching for days and still have not found an answer or anyone with this problem.

I shot a wedding with hmc150, my settings are 1080 24p.
Everything looks great on the computer but when I export to Blu ray it looks really bad. Skin tone close ups look grainy and pixilated,
darker scenes look pixilated around the edges. I have been doing my editing with the new Avid studio (not the pro one, but the upgrade from pinnacle. Maybe thats why it looks bad)
I edited natively in AVCHD
My export settings are:
1440x1080 24P OR 1280x720/24P ( I tried both. I have been editing my sequence in 1920x1080/24p)
40mbps
H.264
PCM 2-channel Audio
re-encode entire movie

I also put some footage on the Blur ray from a canon HV30 and that footage looks just fine! It can't be that the hv30 wins over the Hmc150!

I have been doing my playback on the PS3 (which has usually done great for me in the past)


Your help would be greatly appreciated as my client is wanting thier Discs a week ago now.
 
What are you burning your Blu-ray with? Try other software? Sounds like its recomposing the footage before burning.

Your Blu-ray export files look clean right?
 
I ended up taking advantage of adobe premiere's half off offer. Going to burn with Encore and see how that turns out. I trust that encore is a good encoder for blur ray? Any experience?
 
mattd35 said:
I ended up taking advantage of adobe premiere's half off offer. Going to burn with Encore and see how that turns out. I trust that encore is a good encoder for blur ray? Any experience?
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It's fine -- just don't screw with default settings. Or, if you want to screw with settings -- be sure and sit through that two or four hour training program from Lynda.com on Encore -- because there are non-intuitive things you need to know about encoding discs.
 
mattd35 said:
I ended up taking advantage of adobe premiere's half off offer. Going to burn with Encore and see how that turns out. I trust that encore is a good encoder for blur ray? Any experience?
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Use Media Encoder rather than Encore to do the encoding. It's got lots of options (the defaults are OK but if you really want to tweak you can) and once encoded you can make lots of revisions in Encore without having to re-encode. If you use Encore (and don't manually transcode) then it will re-encode every time you try to make a disc - and that can take a LONG time!
 
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