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exporting from HD timeline for blu-ray
I’m a newbie to HD…I’ll add that point first, please be gentle.
I am having a hell of a time exporting from a FCP timeline for blu-ray. I know the system and software, so the actual process of doing it is not the problem – but I’m having serious issues in the amount of sheer TIME this is taking.
I went to export a 2 hour documentary with Compressor – using some of the templated settings offered, and the time just kept climbing – like into the 90+ and above 100+ hour range? That obviously can’t be right. So I tried to export just a 5 minute piece to check the output file, and it’s looking at 7+ hours. No way that’s right.
I’m using FCP 5.1.4 and exporting via Compressor with one of the HD output settings to be used with DVD Studio Pro – not a custom setting. Can it be the RAM? I’m using an iMac 2.4GHz with 2G of RAM…granted it’s not a pro, but c’mon! Most of the stuff was rendered already – with a couple of basic dissolves rendered for playback only.
What on earth am I missing?? How much time is this supposed to take? If you need further information please let me know.
Matt
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[Apogee Video] “exporting from HD timeline for blu-ray”
[Apogee Video] “I’m using FCP 5.1.4 and exporting via Compressor with one of the HD output settings to be used with DVD Studio Pro “
DVD Studio Pro does NOT do blue-ray.
Do a search about blue ray authoring here on the cow and you will find plenty of info about it. In fact in looking over todays posts there is a nice thread a little way down about it.
There are no “technical solutions” to your “artistic problems”.
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Ok, first omission – I’m using that setting to export, but I don’t use DVD Studio Pro, I use Encore. I looked further down afterwards and did see that post…it’s not really addressing my specific issue but was some great information. anything else you can add would be great. i’m sure it’s a setting or two that i need to tweak…
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[Apogee Video] “I’m using that setting to export, but I don’t use DVD Studio Pro, I use Encore”
Yea that would have been IMPORTANT to include, especially because you said you were going to use DVD SP.
[Apogee Video] “I’m using FCP 5.1.4 and exporting via Compressor with one of the HD output settings to be used with DVD Studio Pro “
There are no “technical solutions” to your “artistic problems”.
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Ok, I guess I’m the asshole. The setting itself in Compressor is labeled ‘for DVD Studio pro’ – I was assuming it was a generic HD output setting. Do you have anything useful to tell me? If not I’ll leave room for someone who might.
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Im sorry you feel offended, I meant no offense at all. Its just that it your question was stating that you wanted to make a blue-ray DVD and that you were planing to use DVD SP. My response was simply that DVD SP does not do blue-ray, and it was only then that you state that you are going to use encore.
Im sorry but please do not blame anybody for the confusion, when it was your story that changed. All I was trying to do was let you know that DVD SP does not do blue-ray. Many others have actually asked about how to do that here on the cow, and there is nothing wrong with pointing out that it cannot do that, when a question states that the person is planing on using DVD SP to make a blue-ray DVD.
There are no “technical solutions” to your “artistic problems”.
Don’t let technology get in the way of your creativity! -
[Apogee Video] “What on earth am I missing?? How much time is this supposed to take? If you need further information please let me know. “
First, those generic HD settings in Compressor do not work for BluRay disc, you need to manually change it to BluRay.
Render times for a 2 hour feature on our Octo Core can take 2 hours so on an iMac I would expect render times of 6 hours or more.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media
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A 30 second post search yields this link:
https://blogs.adobe.com/davtechtable/2008/04/apples_compressor_encore_blura.html#more
I seem to remember using this myself for a Blu-Ray encode – and it’s a lot more reliable than letting Encore transcode.
As has often been mentioned here in the past, Encore Blu-Ray for MAC is buggy as hell, so I recommend not trying anything more than a simple ‘press play’ menu.
Ben
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yeah that imac will take forever to get er done.
my quad g5 with virtual clustering enabled takes about 3 times
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Thanks to you who have responded.
I can use pretty much any authoring program out there – I’m not tied to Encore – and I work cross-platform, so anything PC oriented is fine also once I’m ready to author. For now – just in the encoding process, I would appreciate some help with figuring out which settings to use coming from FCP 5.1, I guess using Compressor. My standard documentary is typically 1.5 to 2 hours in duration – so which settings do I use – whether standard default settings or custom settings – to create the blu-ray files?
If I can use Compressor I’d prefer to, rather than using a 3rd party add-on piece, but again, software isn’t the issue, I’ll get whatever works. I just prefer to keep it as simple as possible, and I currently have FCP 5.1 with Compressor.
I do have FCP 6 with the newer version of Compressor which I haven’t loaded yet, as I’m finishing up a bunch of projects already in motion, and I haven’t wanted to toy with what works for the moment. Does FCP 6 and the newer Compressor make this any easier?
Again – thank you for your continued help!
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Apogee if you do a search on this forum for blu-ray in the last couple
of months (back to january) you will find everything you need to know
for encoding.I posted several times my “secret sauce” for compressor that
I used to author over 4 BD titles in january of this year.
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