Blu-Ray on DVD-5 (DVD-R) with FCP success

[Bret Williams]

I’ll be happy to tell you anything you’d like to know. After all, that’s what this forum is for. It is not complex enough to warrant buying a book. Nobody wanted to fill me in so I googled and did plenty of my own tests with TOAST and FCP and Compressor.

First, you’ll need Compressor 3.5 to do it with that. Or Toast 9 or 10 with the HD option. As for Toast, you might google… toast 10 “could not record the disc because there is a problem with the source material” and see the battle some are fighting.

If you have Toast and Compressor 3.5 then you can use the more versatile menus in Toast, and do the compression in Compressor.

[Chris Borjis]

interesting and your not having any stuttering on high bit rate playback then?

I would have that DVD-R media would choke if you had a bitrate spike around 35mbps.

[Bret Williams]

The default settings are nowhere near that. 15 average, 16 maximum. That’s the default that both compressor and toast use for this this type of avchd DVD. The images I’m getting are pristine. I’m not seeing artifacts or breakup anywhere. Even on 1080i material. Zero hiccups on a Vizio blu-ray player or a Sony blu-ray player.

For fun, I burned one on a CD-R. The player didn’t recognize it as a blu-ray, just a data disc. But I dug into the file structure and played back a stream and THAT stalled and hiccuped almost instantly.

[Bob Pierce]

If I’m not mistaken, what you’re doing basically is the same as the blu ray Share function in Final Cut. It’s a bit confusing since these aren’t really blu ray disks, though they are HD and play on most blu ray players (some don’t accept the format). Due to the lower datarate the quality is a bit below blu ray but they still look pretty darn good.
Bob

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