[Daniel Ludwig]

you need a dolby-certificated AC-3-encoder, like minitouka or apples compressor that could create 5.1-dolby digital-streams.

cheers

danny

[Daniel Ludwig]

gotcha,
here is the big mistake.

HDTV no compressed in upper field first, DV NTSC is lower field first, so you´ll have a problem with your field dominance.

you need to create a different encoding-setting (non-preset) for encoding with upper field first.

cheers

danny

[Daniel Ludwig]

again,
you haven´t told us which setting you´ve used for your AE-output. is it a HDV-setting or DVCPRO HD, or what ever.

what transcoding-preset you´ve used with encore? MPEG2HD or H264 for blu-ray? or did you try to create an SD-DVD?

if you go SD, it´s no longer compareable with HD, especially if you´re in NTSC-land.

cheers

danny

[Daniel Ludwig]

Hi Vico,
Encore couldnt transcode 5.1-audio to AC-3 dolby digital-sound, it could create 2.0 Stereo only, because it´s not a dolby-certificated encoder.

it also have a bitstream-error that will cause problems with professional BD-authoring-systems and BD-verifier, but that´s a completely other story.

here in your case your premiere settings are set to 88,2Khz, this is not working with DVD. you need to set your audio-setting to 48khz, but you need to have a full-functional 5.1-dolby AC-3-encoder, like apples compressor (come with FCP) or Minetonka Surcode Dolby Encoder.

cheers

danny

[Daniel Ludwig]

Hi Brian,
could you try to create an DVD-disc-image with encore and try to burn this to using the harddisk-utility or toast?

what kind of media-type are you using?

cheers

danny

[Daniel Ludwig]

Hi Leng,
you haven´t give us informations about some very important things:

1.) workflow
2.) what material you´ve edited (which codec)
3.) which MPEG2-setting you´ve used

adobe media encoder engine is based on Mainconcept technologie, which could create very good results in MPEG2 depending on the input-material.

so there are many informations missing!

cheers

danny

[Daniel Ludwig]

Hi Douglas,
Eric hit the point – you don´t really know who is working with the media. some supid user will allways be there.

normally the BD-R will work in Europe on the players, but there are at least a few that wont work with BD-R.

Iguess the best choice for playback is a PS3!

maybe they have low-quality-BD-R-media, who knows! I always use verbatim.

cheers

danny

[Daniel Ludwig]

Hi Andrea,
H264 is a part of the BD-specs, and the you´ll have the same quality at a much lower bitrate.

I don´t expect any problems with H264 in italy – I´m living in germany and I know that adobe CS4/CS5 encoders will create 100% BD-compliant h264-streams.

I wouldn´t transcode to 1920×1080 because 1440×1080 will be scaled within the player to 1920×1080 and you´ll get better result when you leave the the original size when encoding video-material.

I would set 25Mbit H264-encoding, but you can use 35Mbit CBR MPEG2HD if you want, that would be OK with the the BD-specs.

max. bitrate for Blu-ray is 40Mbit for video and 48Mbit for video+audio.

cheers

danny

[Daniel Ludwig]

Hi Andrea,
there are more than 1 issue:

1. DVCPRO HD is 1440×1080 that will be upscaled to 1920×1080 while displayed.

2. BD-spec have NO 1080p25, it has only 1080p24, so it´s no good idea to deinterlace your picture – stay at 1080i50!

3. you don´t really know who is doing the artifacts! maybe there is some picture-processing in the display as well, most of the modern LCDs/TFTs have such things (even if it is turned off!)

4. you haven´t described to which format you´ve encoded your self-contained quicktime-movie.

as you are talking about FCP6, I guess it would be MPEG2 HD! so 25MBit is not that much for MPEG2 HD – if you´re using encore CS4 you better use adobe media encoder CS4 to encode your film to h264, than it´ll be a better quality at 25MBit.

if you used 2pass VBR on your film, try using 1pass – compressor sometimes doing some strange things on 2pass VBR that will end up in pumping artifacts.

cheers

danny

[Daniel Ludwig]

Hi,

I haven´t created a DL-DVD with encore, because I only use it for BDs, but I bet, you have no chapter-markers at the valid layerbreak-position/zone, that´s the reason why encore could not create a DL-DVD from your project.

if you need to set a layerbreak, it could easily be done with DVD AfterEdit, and also create replication masters with the mastering-version of it.

https://dvdafteredit.com/

you could set it at ANY cell you want to – but you need to have a multiplexed DVD.

there is also a demo-version of it, so you can look for a valid layerbreak-position.

cheers

danny