HVX to blu-ray

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conrad787

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Hello,

I have an HVX with footage I captured at 720/24pn.
My NLE is FCP.
I have a LaCie blu-ray firewire burner that's compatible with Mac, with both 25 gig and 50 gig blank blu-ray disks.
I have the latest version of Toast that can burn Blu-Ray discs.

Where do I go from here? Once I've completed my project in FCP, and am ready to use Compressor to export, what file format should I use that is compatible with Blu-Ray? I want to ensure that I export the file properly from FCP, so that Toast doesn't try to do any conversion when it burns the disc.

Thanks,
Conrad
 
mpeg 4 for blu ray? I know PP has a setting for it, not sure about final cut. I should also mention I have no experience in burning blu ray, just an educated guess. And not even so much educated as a shot in the dark. And not so much a shot in the dark as it being what I would try if I was using PPcs3. So in basically I know nothing.
 
Have you also purchased the Toast blu ray authoring plug in? You'll need this.

Export the footage self contained, and then bring the self contained into Toast 9.

Set whether you want mpeg2 HD blu ray encoding or h.264.

My understanding is that Compressor can output mpeg2 HD streams with some custom preset.

However, I wasn't impressed with Toast's mpeg2 or h.264 encoding and I used pN footage.
 
Use the mainconcept encoder in Toast 9.

Toast won't take external h.264 encodes from Compressor even it the latter supported h.264 blu ray which it doesn't.
 
I am following along. Just so I understand correctly, are you saying you where NOT impressed with the encoding/compressing done by toast9 and you used compressor?

David S. said:
Set whether you want mpeg2 HD blu ray encoding or h.264.

My understanding is that Compressor can output mpeg2 HD streams with some custom preset.

However, I wasn't impressed with Toast's mpeg2 or h.264 encoding and I used pN footage.
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I have looked into starting bluray production, and from what I have read, you can encode with compressor using the HD DVD settings. Then I believe you just have to change the file extension. I don't remember what you change it to, but I'll see if I can find the posts I originally read on a Mac forum somewhere.
 
Greatly appreciated...:thumbup::thumbup::thumbup:

PatrickR said:
I have looked into starting bluray production, and from what I have read, you can encode with compressor using the HD DVD settings. Then I believe you just have to change the file extension. I don't remember what you change it to, but I'll see if I can find the posts I originally read on a Mac forum somewhere.
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PatrickR said:
I have looked into starting bluray production, and from what I have read, you can encode with compressor using the HD DVD settings. Then I believe you just have to change the file extension. I don't remember what you change it to, but I'll see if I can find the posts I originally read on a Mac forum somewhere.
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No that won't work at all.

Compressor's HD DVD presets aren't compliant with blu ray.

Where have you read that they are?
 
Alright, I found a thread on this at an apple discussion board:

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=7765583

A little bit of reading, but it should be worth it. The file extension changing I was referring to is because MPEG2 is an acceptible BD format. Also, I use MPEG Streamclip for a lot of things, and this is another example of a chance to use this powerful, free utility. I use it for ripping chapters in DVD's (when I lose the original files and need an SD copy) and it's also good for screengrabs. It's a lightweight program, so even if you can do stuff in FCP, sometimes it's just easier to use MPEG Streamclip.
 
Well, that's a more complicated version that what I had previously seen, but my guess is if I can't find the "easier" version, then it might not have worked.
 
The OP is working with DVCProHD footage, not HDV.

Your suggestions, while worthwhile, aren't going to help him.
 
Ok, so base point is that the encoding that toast does is no good? And there is no way to compress with compressor then put it into toast for authoring??
 
Hey you don't even need to burn discs... Since you can easily convert the quicktime file to MP4 (if that will suit you).

At any rate this is one of the reasons I am contemplating getting a ps3.
 
yes, i'll be using dvcprohd footage, and not HDV. and of course, i would like to minimize the number of times the footage is compressed and/or re-encoded.

is there a way to export the footage properly the first time using compressor, such that toast doesn't need to re-encode?

i remember in toast 8, when burning dvds, if you bring in MPEG2 footage, that's not formatted properly, toast will re-encode. but, if it's formatted properly, toast will just burn and not encode.

and yes, i've already purchased the blu-ray plug in that's needed in toast 9.

Conrad
 
Export the 720/24pn footage self contained current settings.

Bring that into Toast and I stated earlier, use the h.264 or mpeg2 HD settings in Toast.
 
DVCProHD or HDV is irrelevant if you're using compressor to export it to h.264 or MPEG-2 HD. Use at least 15Mbps.
 
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