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My video is over 24 hours – Compressor does not seem to be able to give an accurate estimated file size
My FCPX project (converted analog footage @ 720×480 is a total time of 27:37:26:04.
My goal has been to fit this onto one 50GB BluRay disc.The FCPX project reads 03:37:26:04 because the FCPX clock starts over at 24 hours.
The project has an estimated file size of 20.92GB in Compresor. This can’t be right.
I attempted burning the disc onto a 25GB disc and it only made it through 4 hours of footage before filling the disc. My first thought was that compressor was using the 03:37:26:04 time for the estimated file size but I get the same estimated file size when I change FCPX settings to FRAMERATE.I would like to try different things to get the footage to fit onto the 50GB disc but with these wacky estimates from compressor, I am worried that I will be waisting discs.
Any advice?
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Are you trying to create an HD BluRay disc or are you creating a video file and burning it to a data disc? Is your project SD?
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I’m not sure it can be done as a playable BD. The only way to fit that length of footage would be to use settings outside anything that’s valid for BD playback.
As a h264 file, you might try installing the x264 quicktime component and trying that in compress but by my guesstimate, the bitrate would be so low, the image would be unwatchable.
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1.6 How much video can you fit on a Blu-ray disc?
Over 9 hours of high-definition (HD) video on a 50GB disc.
About 23 hours of standard-definition (SD) video on a 50GB disc.FCP X 10.2.2 – user since FCP 1.25
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You’d have to do the math on the bitrate.
Take the total time, convert to seconds.
Pick a decent size audio bit rate, and multiply the bitrate by the seconds, and convert to GBs from kbps.
Do the same for video, take a bitrate, multiply by the amount of seconds, and convert that to GBs.
Add the audio and video. If greater than 50GBs, lower the data rate until audio+video is less than 50GBs.
Create custom presets in compressor with those data rates.
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