[Sky Soleil]

Hi Rob,

Thanks so much for your reply. I did try the key frame rate at 1 and you’re right it wasn’t a good looking file.

To answer your question: I’m creating high quality digital H.264 files of my live action short film to sell through my website. The files will be purchased, downloaded and then viewed on the buyers PC, Mac or Mobile device.

My goal is to offer the highest quality file with the lowest file size.

Looked on iTunes and found a film with a run time of 14 minutes,same as my film, with a resolution of 720p and a file size of 419.6 MB. Total bit rate was 4099. The picture looks great.

Based on that, I set my file size targets as…

For a 1080p file – 1 to 1.5GB

For a 720p file – 400MB to 600MB

For a 480p file – 200MB to 300MB

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Is it reasonable to assume that I can get the quality I saw on iTunes, with the desired file size, using compressor?

They are offering feature length films at 720p that have file sizes of 3GB that look amazing.

Just trying to emulate that. Great quality files with low sizes.

My film was shot on super 16 film and transfered to digital.
My FCP project file sequence settings are 1920×1080 HDTV 1080i (16:9)
Pixel Aspect Ratio: Square
Editing Timebase: 23.98
Uncompressed 10-bit 4:2:2
Quality 100%

Audio 48 kHz
Depth 24-Bit
Config: Channel Grouped

For 1080 in compressor I’ve done tests with the key frame rate set to automatic with a data rate restricted to 15000 and that seems to yield the best results. I ran a test with key frames set to 150 and a data rate restricted to 15000 and that gave me some digital noise in my outdoor shots. Minor but noticeable.

3 Questions:

1. How should I continue to test? Is it just a matter of changing frame rates and data rates? Are there other things I can do to get better quality while maintaining a decent file size?

2. I noticed in my FCP sequence settings my Pixel Aspect Ratio was set to Square. If my aspect ratio is HDTV 1080i (16:9) shouldn’t my Pixel aspect ratio be something else?

3. In Compressor when you’re choosing your Aspect Ratio it gives you the pixel aspect ratio option as well. What should I choose in compression? I’m thinking it shouldn’t be square in either my FCP sequence or compressor.

Thanks for your help.

Sky

Thanks,

Sky

[Sky Soleil]

Thanks. We got it working and my first Blu Ray looks great.

I had another question.

I made a Blu Ray with a Video file and two audio files. Audio Right and Audio left for stereo.

I would like to make a Blu Ray with 5.1 capability.

Can Vegas do this and how do I do it?

[Sky Soleil]

No. Just bought the Blu Ray drive and this is the first Blu Ray I’m trying to burn.

[Sky Soleil]

Thanks for your response. We do see the blu ray disc option but when we go to the parameters the video template option is not available.