Encoding ProRes for Blu-ray

I have FCP 6.6 and Toast 10.0.3. I simply want to make a Blu-ray disc. I have a 720 24p movie. If I export is from FCP with the DVCProHD codec and bring it into Compressor it immediately gets all jaggy and looks like it lost half of its lines of resolution (before even assigning a target). So I exported from FCP using Apple ProRes 422 HQ. When I brought that into Compressor it looked fine. I compressed it and brought it into Toast to make a Blu-ray. I didn't have re-encode set to "Never" so it re-encoded it. Even re-encoded it looked 1000 times better than what happened with the DVCProHD blu-ray (which was completely unacceptable). But of course I don't want to to re-encode. So I dragged and dropped the ProRes clip straight into Toast to let it encode it and I get a -50 OSX error. So that doesn't work for some reason. So I took the ProRes clip and selected "Never" for re-encode and Toast just crashes every time. Short of upgrading to FCP7 I am at a loss of what to try next. Is any one encountering these problems? Know why ProRes won't MPEG-2 in Toast? In another post I read about an involved workaround for getting Toast not to re-encode which involved creating a disc image.

Thanks in advance.

-Thomas

Mac Book Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.8)

Posted on Oct 15, 2009 2:17 PM

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Oct 16, 2009 4:16 AM in response to Thomas Lewis

I had never tried using MPEG-2 encodes from Compressor inside of Toast for making blu-ray discs, but when I tried a test project I ran into some trouble. It multiplexed to 82% and then just stalled - it didn't even switch into encoding.

When I tried using only the first half of the file it multiplexed and wrote to disk image without a problem. It would appear that something in the encoding of one of the elementary streams Toast didn't like. I ran into the same issue inside of Adobe Encore when I tried to bring the streams in there.

I haven't had such issues using .264 files form Compressor. I'm not really sure what to make of it.

Oct 16, 2009 5:01 AM in response to wallybarthman

Ok - now this is even more interesting.

After I tried adding the files to Encore I realized I was working with a 1080p @ 29.97 fps file, and Compressor had encoded the video stream as such. The problem is that blu-ray doesn't support 1080p@29.97, only 1080i@29.97, so I re-encoded the stream with upper field first.

Still, Toast wouldn't touch it. MEPG-2, Blu-ray usage, 30 MBps, 35 Max and Toast multiplexed part of it and then decided to re-encode it.

Gave it to Encore - no problem.

Safe to say - something in how Compressor encodes MPEG-2 Toast doesn't like.

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