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BluRay creation with 5.1
I’m about to compress a feature we recently finished to Blu-Ray. Yesterday, I did one with a Stereo track without a problem, looked great and didn’t take that long. Color me impressed.
BUT, it’s not quite customizable enough. Doing the stereo file worked fine, but has anyone made an attempt to do a 5.1 export? In theory, I could set me sequence to be a 5.1 sequence and then burn that. Has anyone tried that? I want to attempt that later today, but wanted to know if anyone had any results with that.
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I can’t speak for Blu-Ray specifically, but in Compressor you can do “new surround file.” you have to manually select the audio file for each channel (so you’d have to have them exported to disk), but it makes a compliant Dolby Digital 5.1 ac3 file for you.
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Yeah, I’ve seen that, but I’m not sure how to get that .ac3 file onto the Blu-Ray. The process is a little annoyingly automated, so you can’t select 2.0 or 5.1 on export, regardless of your sequence settings. It looks like you can only make a 2.0 .ac3 file.
Any one found a work around?
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Don’t have time to test it right now, but if you make a 5.1 ac3 file, then bring that into FCP, it might work to select both video file and the ac3 file and select share. Reading the manual, it sounds like it can be done, but it’s not a very clear path.
Also, in the Compressor “add surround sound” button, there is a place to add video. You might be able to get it to attach there. Again, I haven’t found clear documentation on what this button does.
-Russ
Russell Lasson
Colorist/Digital Cinema Specialist
Color Mill
Salt Lake City, UT
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Okay, then so how about dual-stream, so that the consumer can select Stereo or Surround?
This so-called bluRay export seems to be less flexible than the average “real-time” DVD-R deck.
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