[Eric Balboa]

My options are:

1) Export in standard Mpeg2 DVD settings (CBR or 2 pass with a target bitrate of 6) and burn to blu ray.

2) Export Mpeg2 Blu-Ray high quality and manually bump up the bitrate to 10 or 15 (although I’m a bit concerned this setting could choke out the customers Blu Ray player).

3) Export H264 Blu-Ray 1080i.

Disc space is not an issue as only 2-3 hours of footage are going on each Blu-Ray disc, and I want the finished product to look as good as possible (for VHS).

I suppose I could try all 3 and see which looks best, but the encode times would be tremendous.

[Eric Balboa]

The customer requested Blu-Ray.

[Eric Balboa]

Hi Jeff,

I’m capturing vhs via the Canopus advc 300 in the dv codec. Each 2-3 hour tape needs to go on it’s own blue ray disc. Would you recommend transcoding to Mpeg2 blu ray or h264 blu ray in 1080i?

I’ve done a couple with the Mpeg2 setting at “high quality” and the file size is rather small as the default bitrate is only at about 5.

Should I stick with Mpeg2 and manually bump the bitrate up to 10 or even 15, or should I just use h264 1080i?

Thanks for your help.

[Eric Balboa]

Thanks for the tip. I switched to dolby and got a compatible ac3 file.

[Eric Balboa]

Just happened to stumble across this post and maybe you can help me.

I have about 10 hours of SD 720X480 29.97fps footage from different sources (DVCam, MiniDV, VHS etc) that I need to fit on as few Blu Rays as possible. the footage was all captured in dv avi and when I try transcode it to mpeg2 I lose much of the audio. What would be the best way to cram all 10 hours on to one or two Blu rays? Thank you