Brad Wright
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I’ve been able to create Blu-rays with a bit of hacking. I have an MCE Tech Blu-ray burner, Compressor 4, and Toast. I submit my HD movies to Compressor 4 using the Blu-ray option. Compressor hangs when trying to burn the actual Blu-ray. I hit cancel on Compressor. I then launch Toast Titanium and drag the H.264 files created by Compressor into a Blu-ray drive. Toast then finishes burning the Blu-ray disk.
I’ve contacted Apple about the problem, but they haven’t done anything to fix it yet. Compressor produces the best H.264 while Toast does the best burning. I would never use Toast to compress the video, as it looks horrible.
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I would advise dumping MPEGStreamclip and getting Compressor to do the encoding. I’ve been really happy with the H.264 encoding of Compressor 4. It’s able to use all 8 cores of my MacPro. Very efficient and it doesn’t have all the bugs of MPEGStreamclip.
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I use a Panasonic Plasma THX certified monitor. It’s way more accurate than LED monitors. They are cheap too. There are certainly better monitors out there, but Plasmas have a color advantage over LEDs.
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Try this. Select the problem clip. The select “conform to Sequence” from the Modify menu in Final Cut Pro.
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All DVDs are 720×480 for NTSC and 720×576 for PAL. Widescreen video is the result of anamorphic stretching by the DVD player of 720 to 854. Resize all of your footage to DVD size before submitting it to a DVD encoder. If you have black bars on the top and bottom on a 16:9 television, your DVD video was encode the wrong way. Having black bars at the top and bottom is normal for a 4:3 television for 16:9 video. It’s hard to really say what went wrong in your footage.
If you want to your DVD to play in a standard DVD player, use the 90 DVD best quality preset. If only want to play the video on a computer, use the HD 264 90 minute export preset.
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Yes, I would go use compressor to encode and Toast to burn the final version.
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Yes, I’ve done some test encodings with Toast and video has been full of digital artifacts. Compressor does take time to encode H.264, however it does the very best H.264 encode job I’ve seen so far. It properly encodes interlaced video to H.264, as well. Usually, I just leave compressor running overnight. Matrox sells a the MXO with MAX which allows for much faster H.264 encoding. I haven’t tried this yet, but I would certainly look into a hardware encoding option if I needed to do a lot of Blu-ray disks.
Brad Wright is software engineer, so it may be difficult to understand what he is saying. He is always happy to explain his greater detail.
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You really don’t want to try to edit MPEG files. You certainly never want to try to extract with Handbrake video that you want to import into Final Cut Pro. The reason is that Handbrake only supports H.264 extraction. Try using DVDxDV to rip the DVDs to Quicktime using ProRes. DVDxDV is designed specifically to handle difficult DVD so it syncs properly in Final Cut Pro. Once you’ve finished ripping the video, you should be able to import it into Final Cut Pro without any problems.
Brad Wright is software engineer, so it may be difficult to understand what he is saying. He is always happy to explain his greater detail.
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Try making a Blu-ray with compressor. I’ve had problems with my blu-ray burner which I bought from https://mcetech.com/ It still doesn’t read DVDs correctly, but with compressor I was able to burn Blu-ray disks. I wrote MCE about the problem, but they never resolved it. If Plextor doesn’t resolve the issue, send the Blu-ray recorder back. I would not recommend using Toast for encoding anything. The H.264 encoder leaves lots of digital artifacts while Apple’s compressor looks much better.
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I think there is a drive sharing option that was created for the MacBook air. This would allow your old computer to see and use the DVD burner of another computer. You should always export your footage to a self contained Quicktime movie before submitting it to compressor.
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