[Lucas Cheadle]

Thanks Tom!
I never was too aware of GOPs.
I succeeded in fixing the pulsing by encoding on someone elses MacPro.
The encode settings appear the same as my G5 so I don’t understand why my computer is having this problem.

[Lucas Cheadle]

Check out Joshua Smith. He uses an A1 and gets similar results
https://cinematicbride.com/

[Lucas Cheadle]

Great idea. My Easy setup was set to HDV. So I changed that to NTSC and made sure the sequence codec was NTSC. Then render and no luck. The clip still slips.

[Lucas Cheadle]

Yes I made one BD before using Parallels, Windows XP, DVD Architect on my 2,5GHz MacBook Pro. This time around I’m using an HP Workstation xw8000 to author the BD, bringing in the media (created & exported in FCP) via eternal hard drive. It’s been an adventure being that I’ve been exclusively Mac for some time now.

Since my last post I’ve started another render, this time I switched a logo movie file from m2v format to ProRes which conforms to the format of the rest of the disk media. Once again I double checked to make sure that all the files creators I found in Preferences put their data on the external hard drive as to not fill up the startup drive.

[Lucas Cheadle]

I don’t edit in Vegas. I’m bringing in a .mov file from Final Cut.
I’ve done it before successfully with my MacBook Pro, but now I’m trying to replicate that success on a PC.

[Lucas Cheadle]

Thanks for the response.
I’m only running DVD Architect Pro during render as to free up all available cpu power.

Here are my PC specs:
HP Workstation xw8000
Xeon CPU 2.8GHz
2 GB RAM

Seems to be within the system requirements posted by Sony.
Would getting 2 more gigs of RAM help?

[Lucas Cheadle]

After a couple of weeks of experimentation here is my recipe for BD.
My project is HDV native. I exported ProResHQ reference QT mov, brought that into Sony Vegas’ DVD Architect Pro. Authored a menu and rendered an .iso file using DVD Architect’s AVC codec then dropped that .iso into Toast 9 and burned a nice looking BD.

Issues:
1)original footage was shot on Canon XHA1 HDV with 6bd gain. I think the gain grain really showed up on BD playback. That gain setting had worked fine in the past shooting in HDV and then downconverting to SD.
2)DVD Architect has a bit rate limit of 28. I would have liked to have toyed with some higher settings
…otherwise I have delivered a nice BD to a happy client

[Lucas Cheadle]

Thanks for the response Chris.
I’ve tried several methods, but when I do use Compressor it’s set to the default BluRay settings. I also tried varying the bit rates.
Currently I’m waiting on a Compression job according to Cody Westheimer’s setting suggestions: exporting from timeline w/DVCHD.
I made a one minute long test and Compressor’s half way through it….
after nine hours!!! I shutter at the thought of rendering a one hour timeline. This project is a wedding and there’s 3.5 hours of video.

[Lucas Cheadle]

Thanks Walter!
I’m disappointed in my BluRay HD results so far. The picture looks grainy, like super fine pointillism, A Sunday At The Park?
I don’t know if it’s something I can control.

Here are the facts:
Canon XHA1 HDV
Captured HDV 1080i60
Exported variously (ProRes,ProResHQ, m2v for BluRay in Compressor)
Authored in DVD Architect Pro 5 set to m2v compression… currently rendering a test using the AVC option.

Up to now this company I work for has shot HDV and downconverted to DV at capture. They wanted to try the HD BluRay route.

[Lucas Cheadle]

DVD Architect Pro won’t let the bit rate get above 28. The parameters go up to 40 but an error occurs during the build.