[Emmanuel Presselin]

Hello,

You could try with a demo version. I think (not sure) you can download Encore trial from adobe’s site.
Bye,
Emmanuel

[Emmanuel Presselin]

Hi Alfred,

Here is my workflow :
1 : export from FCP. Same settings as your project, self-contained.
2 : demux with bouke’s smart app. You get 2 files, ready to use in Encore.
3 : blu-ray authoring with adobe encore. Set the prefs in premiere to match your movie properties. Then Encore won’t re-encode your elementary streams. Encore tells you wether your streams need to be re-encoded or not in the project pane. Make sure you get the “don’t transcode” status in the project pane.

“- I exported the HDV sequence as a self-contained QT file at current settings. The “get info” command in the finder shows this as 1920×1080. QT player displays the aspect ratio pretty correctly, and the Movie Inspector shows the dimensions as 1440×1080.”

This is OK. HDV is anamorphic 1440 x 1080. Only 1440×1080 pixels are recorded. When displayed, your movie is scaled to the 1920×1080 size. (or sometimes 1440*810 which respects the PAR as well).
Don’t worry about this. Just make sure your file 1440×1080, whatever the display does.

“Movie Properties” for the mpeg file lists a video track and a sound track (!), which I hear when playing back in QT Player (in other words, it’s not an elementary stream).
That’s the normal behavior. When you have 2 elementary streams with the same name, they are read in sync. It means if you open the video stream, the audio is read in sync at the same time.

– When I drag the mpeg into Toast 11 Pro, I see the video and sound listed. I set Toast to “never re-encode” and it gives up after a few seconds or starts re-encoding.

I don’t use toast. No Idea.

Good luck !
Emmanuel

[Emmanuel Presselin]

Hello,

If you can, use Adobe Encore to author and burn your Blu Ray. It works for me. I never tried Toast.
Ask “Bouke” if you can use his little app to demux. It works like a charm and it’s much faster than Encore.

Emmanuel

[Emmanuel Presselin]

Hello,
I visited your site.
Many tools that could have save me hours sometimes.

Just a suggestion about one point that has not been addressed properly and is a reel pain.
There is no good tool for downsizing and compressing HD interlaced footage (for instance for DVD output) on Mac. There is a lot of quality loss. It’s a well-known issue on the mac, with FCP. You have to split the job. First round :downsizing to SD, second round : compression. That’s long.
A compression tool that could handle properly interlaced HD footage would be very valuable !

Anyway you’ve made my day !
If there is anything I can do, just ask.
Emmanuel

[Emmanuel Presselin]

Bouke, you’re the man !!!
You are a mpeg wizard…

This app is gold !! Works like a charm. Fast and easy.
This app is the perfect tool. I”ve read so many posts desperately asking for a way to play and use HDV files from Final Cut on Windows app.

You should do something with this…

Beautiful.
Thanks
Emmanuel

[Emmanuel Presselin]

Yes it’s part of blu-ray specs. And it can help us with mpeg-based footage, like HDV.
If someone come a cross a good tool to demux HDV streams so that we can use it straight for authoring, let us know ! that was the very first point of this message 🙂

Emmanuel

[Emmanuel Presselin]

Where can I find the command line version for mac ?
Any idea ?

[Emmanuel Presselin]

I use ffmpeg 0.0.9y on mac with graphical user interface, so there’s command line.

[Emmanuel Presselin]

Thank you for your help.
I have tried ffmpeg. It doesn’t accept my HDV files.
I have GUI ffmpeg. I’m going to try again.
I f you have other ideas, let me know.

Emmanuel

[Emmanuel Presselin]

That the first tool I tried. It doesn’t work. It’s known that mpeg streamclip is not a good tool to handle HDV, unfortunately…