Compressor & H.264

[Chris Babbitt]

H.264 for HD DVD is not the same as H.264 for Blu-Ray. If you put that file into Toast to burn your Blu-Ray, it will try to re-compress it before burning. I use Mp2 to compress for Blu-Ray. I just did one last night, and it took 4.5 hours for a 1.5 hr. program. That’s on a dual-core MacPro with 2 gigs of ram.

[Harsheet Patel]

I plan on burning a Blu-Ray Disc using Encore. That will take any .264 extension file and burn to a blu-Ray… At least that is what I plan on trying. I read and saw some videos on lynda.com and it seems like it will work.

[Michael Craven]

Are you using Qmaster? If not, enabling that will increase your rendering times dramatically.

[Craig Seeman]

Matrox CompressHD will do that in under 2hrs. It’s faster than real time.

Read my COW review
https://library.creativecow.net/articles/seeman_craig/matrox_compressHD.php

[Eric Pautsch]

Before we start talking about how great Matrox AVC encoding is, let’s make it clear that it outputs a non-compliant BD H.264 stream for Blu Ray. Fine for burnable distribution not for replication.

Several test done recently through Sony image verifiers confirms this.

https://www.netblender.com/main/resources/wikipapers/blu-ray-encoding/

[Craig Seeman]

I think Harsheet was talking about weddings. I don’t think these will be going out for replication. His main issue is encode time. Compressor may be compliant for replications but that puts him right back into the problem he’s trying to avoid, long encodes.