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Blu Ray compressor 3.5 mpeg4/h.264 or mpeg-2
I have clients that want blu ray for their wedding. So I am looking at buying the panasonic bdr206 xl from videoguys. It will hold 128gb but neither mac nor toast has come out with support but it will burn standard blu rays. Is this a good burner. What is everyone using?
The question for this thread though is this….
H.264 is a codec of choice for quality over mpeg2 for hd….but is it possible to achieve this with compressor 3.5 and have good results? What bitrate’s do I use(avg and max). I typically have 4-6 videos that add up to 60-90 minutes long. I have not found a work flow for blu ray h.264 for Final Cut users. Or does everyone use mpeg-2. If that is the case what bitrates do you use? I plan on then using toast titanium 10.
any help would be greatly appreciated.
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What did you capture with? DV Camera, Stills etc…
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All of filming what shot on 7d, 5d, and vixia hfs10.
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Joshua,
I’m only a year with FCP but this workflow delivered a nice Blu-Ray for me. You have excellent camera’s so your result should be similar to mine. mpeg-2 is the deal and here’s a couple of workflow’s that are easy and actually work. The first is a thread I got here on the Cow, I couldn’t use his 5.1 audio part so just go with the Dolby 2.0. it worked fine for me. https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/20/861769 The second link is for a Blu-Ray menu which unfortunately at this point are total crap, so this guy has a workaround that can give you a decent result for something pretty basic. You’ll grab the finished assets out of Compressor and use Toast 10. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3IDhivbu8k There are 2 sets of bitrates here, I used the menu guy’s and they worked fine, my movie was 2 hours and 34 minutes. The second 2 hrs 5 min. It’s really easy and when played back on a stand alone cheap Sony Blu-Ray deck it played fine and looked great. My burner was a super cheap Matshita I got off eBay for 90 bucks new. A better external drive than mine should only improve the outcome.
Good luck.
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so i take it you have not tried the mpeg4/h.264 setting for blu ray in compressor 3.5. I thought about trying it since it is a better codec but hear it takes hours to compress. I thought of about taking a 5 minute highlight video and playing with that setting but then I also hear that one may have different results if applying longer cuts. The longest one I have at this point is 25 minutes long but there may be some in the future that could be 60-90 minutes long.
what are your thoughts on mpeg4/h.264?
thank you for the links. I appreciate that.
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Basically I couldn’t find a workflow for the MPEG4/H.264 route. When I mentioned it on my inquiries, I was quickly told that it doesn’t work and MPEG2’s were the way to go. I maybe didn’t get the best responses or happened on the right threads in my searches. I worked with what I could find. I see Jeff Greenberg responded to your thread. He answers my questions and is an authority on the subject. I’m just telling you what worked for me. If he says MPEG4/H.264 works…it works. I have a new project coming up soon. I can make a duplicate and play with these new settings and see if it works. The quality of the blu-ray I made is super nice, if it could be better, I’d be in heaven.
As far as the encoding, it takes a ton of time, at least with my stuff. I’m not a pro, just have some cool toys. My quad core took 24 hours to encode my 2 hour 34 minute blu-ray. 15 minutes before it finished the first time the power to my office went out. Frustrating but worth the wait.
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