Export Setting for Blu-ray?

[VR_Productions]

Hi All,

I have various pieces of footage (1080i and 720p) that I would like to export onto a hard drive to have them made into Blu-ray discs. The various formats are not for the same project but would like to know what settings I should be using.

What export settings do you recommend? I would like something high quality but not necessarily "uncompressed". Has anyone had experience doing this and could share with what they found to reap the best quality?

I am using a Mac just so you know. I do not have an HD Cam deck so I must use hard drives.

Please let me know if you have estimated file sizes at the various settings.

:dankk2:

 

[THoff]

The format will depend on what the authoring service can accept. There are lossless and near-lossless codecs that would save you a bunch of disk space, but if the people authoring the disk can't deal with them, it's pointless.

The few programs that I know of that author Blu-Ray and HD DVD disks do so in MPEG2 format and not the more advanced codecs like VC-1 or H.264. If that is what the service you are going to uses, then they can't exploit the full potential of the HD disk formats, and you could deliver them MPEG2-encoded video.