Blu Ray PAL-NTSC Transcode/Encode
Trying to get a 60hz Blu Ray for Festival in the US from a 1920x1080 25p.
The straight-up PAL encode in Compressor send to Toast 10 Pro Authoring w/ HD Plug-In (re-encode never) burn on to the external LaCie (Pioneer!!) BD Drive works like a charm (A little bit of weird Toast Interlacing going on don't know why, but it is MUCH better than the SD cripe compressor usually puts out).
But when I try changing the frame rate to 29.97 things start to go amiss. Final result is uncanny motion blur, especially in shots with a lot of movement - almost as if the fields were getting all messed up. The only thing I touched in Frame Controls was of course the Rate Conversion, set to BEST.
These are the encode settings: (note 66.15 MB is only about a 30 sec test sample I tried - whole 70 minute doc is more like 8.9 gigs)
Name: Blu Ray NTSC VI
Description: Maximize bit rate for duration of source
File Extension: 264
Estimated size: 66.15 MB
Video Encoder
Format: H264
Width: 1920
Height: 1080
Pixel aspect ratio: Square
Crop: None
Padding: Preserve source aspect ratio
(L: 0, T: 0, R: 0, B: 0)
Frame rate: 29.97
Frame Controls On:
Retiming: (Best) High quality Motion Compensated
Resize Filter: Linear Filter
Deinterlace Filter: Fast (Line Averaging)
Adaptive Details: On
Antialias: 0
Detail Level: 0
Field Output: Same as Source
Stream usage: Blu-ray
Multi-pass: On
Average bit rate: 17 (Mbps)
Maximum bit rate: 25 (Mbps)
Any ideas?? Maybe I can just get a US Blu Ray player at B&H and use it for the Festival (not sony) that will play my video at 50hz - Probably the easiest solution, right? I'm not paying a post house 2 grand, no way.
MacBookPro