H.264 Blu-Ray and Encore

	H.264 Blu-Ray and Encore by Eric Hansen on Jun 9, 2009 at 4:43:34 pm forgive me as i'm not a regular poster to the Encore forum, and if this question has already been answered. i did a quick search and couldn't find anything, which might mean its no longer a problem. i'm currently using Encore, along with Compressor and Toast 10 to make MPEG-2 Blu-Ray discs. i know that Encore can also make H.264 discs, but in a few different How-To's that i read, it says that Encore will take an H.264 file and transcode it to MPEG-2. and you can't tell it not to. is it true that it does this? i'm thinking about getting the Matrox CompressHD card to make Blu-Ray H.264 files, but i want to make sure that Encore will play nice with them. on a similar note, how does a H.264 Blu-Ray compare in quality to a MPEG-2 one at similar bitrates? i have noticed that most Blu-Ray titles are MPEG-2, but there are a few like one of the Pirates of the Caribbean movies, that are H.264, sometimes going over 40Mbps! i don't think thats possible with MPEG-2. thanks e Eric Hansen, The Audio Visual Plumber - www.avplumber.com Respond to this post   •   Return to posts index

	Re: H.264 Blu-Ray and Encore by Eric Hansen on Jun 9, 2009 at 6:11:46 pm thanks. i wonder if Encore thought that the H.264 files weren't legal for some reason. i have CS3, btw. maybe the authors of the How-To's were on older versions. i'm going to rent the Pirates sequels to see for myself, but i read somewhere that when you turn on the Display on a Sony Blu-Ray player and it lists the current codec and bitrate, that at times the movie was going over 40. thanks e Eric Hansen, The Audio Visual Plumber - www.avplumber.com Respond to this post   •   Return to posts index

	Re: H.264 Blu-Ray and Encore by Jon Geddes on Jun 10, 2009 at 12:30:28 am I believe CS3 will transcode your blu-ray motion menus to MPEG2 regardless of which format you specify (if I recall correctly). CS4 will create h264 menus while in H264 authoring mode, however it will most likely spit out an error message during the build process. You should specify MPEG2 as the authoring mode regardless of what you want your video to be. You can then set the transcode settings of your main video to H.264 for better quality. If you have already created the h264 file using the CompressHD in Premiere, just import that into Encore and it won't need any transcoding (even if your authoring mode is MPEG2). Encore does support burning h264 to blu-ray and it works well (I've done it many times). Jon Geddes Motion Graphics Designer www.precomposed.com Respond to this post   •   Return to posts index

	Re: H.264 Blu-Ray and Encore by Eric Hansen on Jul 1, 2009 at 3:40:23 pm i looked at the Matrox forum post that was linked, and there was talk of Level 4.0 vs. Level 4.2 and the last post by the Matrox Tech was that Level 4.2 won't work. what is the difference? is there a downside to using 4.0? what Level does Compressor or Adobe Media encode? i can't believe they said that Encore doesnt work, so you should use Toast to author your BD discs. they really don't get it. e Eric Hansen, The Audio Visual Plumber - www.avplumber.com Respond to this post   •   Return to posts index

	Re: H.264 Blu-Ray and Encore by Eric Hansen on Jul 1, 2009 at 3:44:05 pm and further, how do you author a play-only Blu-Ray in Toast when you have separate audio and video assets (H.264 and AC3 files)? it seems like it only accepts assets as single audio/video files. if there's a way, i could skip using Encore for play-only Blu-Rays thanks e Eric Hansen, The Audio Visual Plumber - www.avplumber.com Respond to this post   •   Return to posts index