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  Blu Ray bit rates in Compressor ?

  Posted by Martin Clark on November 6, 2011 at 10:38 pm

  Hi everyone,

  I have a 73GB Pro Res 422 (HQ) 1920×1080 movie…57 mins in length.

  I intend to burn a blu ray disc from it in Compressor

  Can someone tell me what the best bit rates are (average and maximum)

  I have no idea, first time with blu ray…..oh and i’m encoding it to H.264 (that’s the norm right??)

  Thanks

  Martin

  Ryan Holmes replied 14 years, 6 months ago 4 Members · 7 Replies
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  Steve Eisen

  November 7, 2011 at 4:20 am

  20 to 30

  Steve Eisen
  Eisen Video Productions
  Vice President
  Chicago Final Cut Pro Users Group
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  Martin Clark

  November 7, 2011 at 10:04 am

  sorry should have mentioned what i have to work with.

  average bit rate scale is from 5 to 15 and maximum bit rate scale is from 6 to 17

  thanks
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  Ryan Holmes

  November 7, 2011 at 3:39 pm

  If you’re running Compressor 4.0 just use the preset under “Disc Burning.” By default it’s set at 30Mbps with a maximum of 35Mbps (it’s a VBR preset – Variable Bit Rate).
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  Martin Clark

  November 7, 2011 at 4:09 pm

  thanks,

  i’m using compressor 3.5.
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  Ryan Holmes

  November 7, 2011 at 4:37 pm

  Compressor 4.0 is only $50 on the App Store. It’s easily worth it in my opinion.

  https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/compressor/id424390742?mt=12

  RH
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  Mark Spano

  November 7, 2011 at 9:13 pm

  No need to upgrade to make Blu-ray encodes. The reason you’re getting low bit rate as an option is probably due to how Compressor thinks you are going to use this file.

  Does yours look like this?

  

  If so, take a look again. It is saying AVCHD as the usage. That means it thinks you want to burn Blu-ray content onto a standard DVD. Not what you want? Try changing it to Blu-ray:

  

  Now you get proper Blu-ray encoding parameters.
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  Ryan Holmes

  November 7, 2011 at 9:46 pm

  Mark is right. I should be more specific. You don’t need Compressor 4.0 to encode for Blu-Ray. Compressor 3.5 will do it as well. And he’s laid out the graphics for you to see that.

  My point was that Compressor 4.0 has presets for it, is currently being updated and developed by Apple, and is only a $50 purchase. 3.5 is EOL. The differences aren’t drastic GUI-wise, but 4.0 does appear to take better advantage of my multi-core Mac Pro.

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