[Ebony Butler]

Hi guys, I am doing my head in trying to make blu ray copies of my film for festivals…

I used compressor initially to reduce the size of my Prores 4444 master – using the blu ray video settings. But that file doesn’t seem to work with any standard blu ray burning software – such as toast or even some others… wondering if I was doing that right? I then tried Mpeg 2 and seagate audio – which of course exports fine – but these blu ray programs don’t seem to recognise the audio?!

Now I am trying a stack of other formats but I really don’t want to reduce the quality too much – compressing down to Prores 422LT etc – and then I have found that’s too big so now I am trying a high quality h264 export from the press 422 file which is killing me but I have no other option right now (that i know of) and my film is huge – 75 minutes long. Plus the only blu-ray disc I have right now is 25GB – and that’s another thing – these BR discs re not so easy to find! Office Works and JB both don’t have them – I can’t believe it!!

Getting a bit pee’d with it but I’d love to be able to work it out. I’ll likely go back and get a pro to do it – but last time i was charged $250 for 1 DVD…

You guru’s have any thoughts? Free software that works?(I am on a mac but have purchased an external blu ray recorder / player)

Thank you… Ebs (PLZ excuse my spelling and grammar, I’m tired, frustrated and have a deadly tomorrow for a festival overseas!)