primer pro best export for blu-ray

[Joseph W. bourke]

Although I have no experience with Blu-Ray, this from Adobe may help you out:

https://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-pro/using/exporting-dvd-or-blu-ray.html#choosing_file_formats_for_various_discs

Joe Bourke
Owner/Creative Director
Bourke Media
http://www.bourkemedia.com

[Per Arne sandvik]

As Joseph’s link will tell you, your choice is between H.264 and MPEG-2 compression. H.264 is the most recently updated standard and will give you a better quality/size ratio, but will not look as good as a high-bitrate MPEG-2 encode. If your project has a reasonable length, you should probably go for MPEG-2. Both options will split your project into separate video and audio files.

I can’t tell from your post if your footage is 30p or 30i. As far as I know, 1920*1080 @ 30p is not supported by Blu-ray, so if this is what you’re working with, you might have to convert this to 60i. No idea why this is the case, as 30p and 60i are virtually identical when it comes to bitrate. I haven’t done this myself, so I don’t know how good a job PPro does at converting. If your material is 30i, don’t worry about it.

Be careful when you set the max bitrate (you can define min, target and max). The maximum rate Premiere will let you choose is the maximum the Blu-ray format supports, but I have experienced that a file spikes beyond this. This gave me a heap of trouble in Encore. I now set the max rate to 38 instead of 40.

I treat Encore like a smelly public toilet; Take a deep breath, get in and out as fast as you can. Encore is notoriously fickle and prone to corrupting projects and making some really weird choices. For that reason I avoid sending PPro projects to Encore through Dynamic Link. I prefer to export my PPro projects to Adobe Media Encoder and render out the files before I build a Blu-ray structure. If you get the settings right, Encore doesn’t need to do anything with the files beyond rewrapping them. Export as ISO or BR folder to make sure you have everything in the can before burning.

OK, that’s not a complete workflow, but hopefully it helps.

[Chris Tompkins]

Export out to AME and choose the Bluray preset.
Adjust data rate as needed.

Chris

[Ht Davis]

If you set your project quality and expect encore to utilize the latest standards, you’re up a creek without a paddle… …hell you don’t even have a boat! What you need is an encoder that won’t crap out on you when you try to utilize current standards in your projects. Here’s the problem: Cameras now support 60p at 4k. Encore doesn’t know WTF to do with that. You need an encoder that will handle it. I haven’t been able to find a way to select the encoder in the settings of encore.
I have found a way to Transcode the video in encore, but through dynamic link. Encore doesn’t care what the settings are. IF it is transcoded, it will get wrapped into folders. I force encore to use the media encoder to transcode. That way, I can have a say in what it uses to encode the project. Since I go quickly from one app to another, I rarely have to wait for the file to move, and I can chapter at my convenience (which, because I do live performance Archival, is done in premiere most of the time, and by performance number, not by time).
I find it easier to use the dynamic link, especially with my time constraints and workflow. I have to produce several outputs, usually one clipping for web, large format archival (full or highest quality), and then possibly mass production material. The only downside to the dynamic link is that encore doesn’t keep up with the times. It was left 4 dead, and is rapidly becoming a dinosaur. I await the next program with these functions to be compatible with mac with great anticipation. However, the only suite that’s close is AVID. And while I could export my work from premiere to avid and back, there’s too much loss and too many caveats to deal with. Since I haven’t found a suitable replacement for the suite I use, I stick with it. There are always workarounds.

[Peter Meng]

Thanks for the scoop on Encore. I was wondering why my Blu-ray DVDs were glitchy. I was always using the Dynamic linking to Premiere within Encore to build the ISO image. What a mess. Building with Premiere and letting Encore wrap it up into an ISO image was so much cleaner.