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compression stalling out when trying to burn blu-ray
I’m trying to send about 1hr 45min of HDV footage (wedding) to a Blu-Ray disk. From the timeline I’m using the “Share” option in the file menu and sending strait to my Blu-ray burner. It starts the compression process but has been stalling out after 4 hours and 23 minutes of “processing” and says “about 13 min 53 sec remaining.” Tried it three times. . . same result.
I burned this same footage to blu-ray about 9 months ago using the same equipment and process. The only thing different is that I just added about 15 more minutes of footage. Any idea’s what is going on here?
Thanks,
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I’ve had this problem when burning Blu-ray. What you need is to render to a stand alone Quicktime file and then import that file into Compressor. The reason for this is that you don’t want to tie up FCP while you are rendering a Blu-ray which could take 10 hours. Also, FCP eats memory like crazy, so you don’t what that running on top of encoding. I ran into some issues with long videos such as 45 minutes or longer and compressor. I upgrade to the new version of Compressor and haven’t checked yet to see if the issue is fixed. Sadly, Apple has been on a crusade against all optical disks.
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Thanks. So if I understand correctly… export the sequence to a quicktime file then send that file to compressor? I don’t see a Blu-ray option in compressor (version 3.5.3) am I missing something? The next question I have is how do I author the Blu-ray from Compressor? I thought the only way was to send right from FCP using the “Share” menu.
I appreciate your help greatly!
nate
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Yes, it’s in there. There’s an option to compress and burn a BD in compressor. Look in the Help menu. It’s in compressor 3 and 4.
Brad Wright is software engineer, so often hard to figure out what he is talking about. He is always happy to explain answers further.
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Alright, got that figured out. Thanks. Unfortunately now it failed saying “Volume’s file size limit exceeded” I have the average bit rate set at 22 and max at 30 and that says it should fit 132 minutes and my video is 105 minutes? Any ideas?
Thanks,
Nate
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