Best setting for blu ray disc in compressor

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sandra418Q Author

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Best setting for blu ray disc in compressor

I made a movie in FCP X. Created a master file in prores4444 (48G in size).

Sent it to Compressor to create a blu ray H.264 file

I dragged it to Toast Titanuim 11 and burned the blu ray on a 25G one-sided disc. 5G in size.

I use a Samsung SE-506BB/TSBD burner.

Here is my problem: the video was very jagged when I played it, not smooth.

Is Compressor the culprit? What setting should I use in Compressor to get a high quality video?

Thanks,

Sandra

MacBook Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9.2)

Posted on Apr 1, 2014 8:27 AM

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Answer 1

Russ H

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Apr 1, 2014 9:31 AM in response to sandra418Q

Unless you are working with a high end pro format, Pro Res 422 is perfectly fine to use as a master file. PR 4444 is PR HQ with an alpha channel so you probably can save a lot of space and speed up your exports by dropping down two levels.

If you use the BluRay prests in Compressor, it should do a very good job of encoding. Perhaps Toast is recompressing your file. I don't use the software but I think there is a setting simewhere to avoid the second compression.

Or have FCP make the BD directly.

Russ

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sandra418Q Author

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Apr 1, 2014 10:39 AM in response to Russ H

Thanks Russ, I am trying to have FCP make the BD directly to my external burner.

Will let you know the results

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sandra418Q Author

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Apr 2, 2014 6:03 AM in response to Russ H

Russ,

I made the blu ray movie right from FCP X using the exernal bluray burner and it came out great. I used the original timeline and FCPX reduced it to 5.06G. It was 23 minutes.

Do you know if there is a size limit to create a blu ray using this method? A I restricted to a 30 minute maximum length?

Also, I checked Toast and there is a setting that says 'do not encode' but even checking that, it still compresses my project.

Thanks

Sandra

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Answer 4

Russ H

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Apr 2, 2014 8:24 AM in response to sandra418Q

Sandra,

You should be easily able to fit 90 minutes of video on a Single Layer Blu Ray disk.

Best of luck.

Russ

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