Best audio levels for making a bluray?

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Best audio levels for making a bluray?

Posted by Kent Beeson on September 5, 2013 at 3:24 pm

Using PP CS6 – my audio levels in timeline peak at about -6db…I export into a QT Pro Res uncompressed audio, then bring that into Apple’s Compressor to make a Blu Ray – playing the blu ray on my 32″ Samsung monitor from a Panasonic blu ray player the audio sounds a bit distorted, slightly over modulated (on the Samsung speakers) –

What should the levels be on my timeline in PP CS6 to export to a QT mov for bluray compression? Compressor’s audio is AC3 48K 192 bit rate – anyone know other settings I should adjust in Compressor for bluray audio? What’s this normalize dialogue setting? -27 or what should I choose?

Thanks

Chris Borjis replied 12 years, 8 months ago 5 Members · 7 Replies
7 Replies

Chris Tompkins
September 5, 2013 at 3:47 pm

Have you tried exporting out of Pr directly to AME using the Bluray presets? Bring those files into Encore, author disc?

Chris
Kent Beeson
September 5, 2013 at 3:50 pm

What is AME? Have not ever used Encore…do I export a pro res file from PP then bring that into Encore or what are steps?

Thanks

K
http://www.effective-video.com
Chris Tompkins
September 5, 2013 at 3:54 pm

Adobe Media Encoder (AME)
Comes with your CS package.
Export direct from sequence to bluray files, no middle compression step needed.

File Export, select the mpeg2 Bluray preset, adjust settings if needed, bring those files into encore and build a disc.

Check online of you need a tutorial.

Chris
Kent Beeson
September 5, 2013 at 3:58 pm

Thanks Chris – I’ll try that – wonder why Apple’s compressor makes a bluray into h264 but Adobe makes it an mpeg 2? Thought h264 was better no?

Thanks

K
http://www.effective-video.com
Ann Bens
September 5, 2013 at 4:42 pm

H.264 is better. And Yes Premiere has a BluRay preset for H.264.

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Warren Eig
September 5, 2013 at 4:59 pm

Actually they are pretty indiscernible. The advantage to h.264 is in encoding projects over an hour in length. The codec is more efficient so you can get more on the disc without loosing picture quality.

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Chris Borjis
September 5, 2013 at 5:04 pm

You might bump down your audio -3 db so absolute peaks are at -9

If the audio is highly dynamic it might make it too quiet though.

No need to compress your AC3 to such a low bitrate, you should
set it for 448kbps.

if it’s stereo and not surround you can just use an exported .wav file
and have it uncompressed.

plenty of room on 25gb BD-R media for that if your film isn’t too long.

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