DVDit Pro and Blu Ray quality
by Dave Sicilian
on
Mar 18, 2008 at 3:58:33 pm
Hello all,
I've got an 8-core running FCP. I am capturing uncompressed HD video & audio off of an HDCAM-SR. I am trying to output the highest quality video I possibly can through Compressor and then brining it in to the Windows side of my Mac running DVDit Pro HD and burn a Blu Ray from there (I do have a Blu Ray burner). I can convert my uncompressed video to high quality M2Vs, but DVDit does not seem to like anything I give it that has a data rate satisfactory enough for reproducing "HD" picture. When I try to execute the burn, DVDit starts the process, but then stops before it actually burns anything. I've changed the preferences on DVDit to import all files and I have also maxed out the HD transcoding settings in the User Prefs. I am a video amatuer (with some serious equipment) and I just need to know what I am missing in terms of getting as high a quality picture as I can onto a BD-R using my setup. Any input would be greatly appreciated.
Re: DVDit Pro and Blu Ray quality by Dave Sicilian on Mar 26, 2008 at 1:29:47 pm
Thanks for the reply. I have noticed that in Comp. 3 you can specify the use of an .m2v as a Blu Ray stream...though I don't entirely understand what that means. So what I gather is that I can't create a Blu Ray compliant MPEG-2 that DVDit will burn straighaway onto a BD out of Compressor (really?). The only success I've had at burning a non-transcoded file onto a BD was when I converted my original 10bit uncompressed 1080psf 23.98 video to a 1080i 29.97 MPEG-2...though I don't fully understand the implications of that type of conversion. I've tried importing uncompressed HD video into DVDit and it really didn't like that (though I'm not sure if that was a disk speed issue or not), so what file format would you suggest? I'm still playing around with things, but any input is appreciated. Thank you.
Re: DVDit Pro and Blu Ray quality by Chris Borjis on Mar 31, 2008 at 5:34:51 pm
here are suggestions to make dvditpro hd pass through an HD stream made with compressor:
File Extension: m2v
Video Encoder
Format: M2V
Width: 1920
Height: 1080
Pixel aspect ratio: square
Crop: None
Frame rate: 29.97
Frame Controls:
Retiming: Nearest Frame
Resize Filter: Linear Filter
Deinterlace Filter: Line Averaging
Adaptive Details: On
Antialias: 0
Detail Level: 0
Field Output: Same as Source
Aspect ratio: 16:9
Field dominance: Top first
Average data rate: 21.1 (Mbps)
1 Pass VBR enabled
Maximum data rate: 25 (Mbps)
High quality
Best motion estimation
Closed GOP Size: 15, Structure: IBBP
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In Final Cut changed the
"Sequence Setting",
"Starting TimeCode"
to 00:00:00;00 instead of the default value of 01:00:00;00.
