Blu-ray export quality

When burning 1440x1080i25 to Blu-ray in Encore: in Export Settings, should you set it to High Quality or Long Form or Maximum Quality to get the best visual quality from normal DV tape footage?
Why when I select PCM in audio does it revert to Custom, and what is Custom? (which of the above three is it?)

When you first enter Encore, in the New Project box, in Advanced tab, in Audio Transcoding Scheme, you can select Dolby Digital, MPEG-1 Layer II (greyed out), or PCM. Then if you click File > Edit Quality Presets > Audio, you can select either Dolby Digital or PCM for the Audio Format Settings.
I need to know whether Dolby Digital will encode my music unaltered, or whether it will compress the VU level (make the loud parts softer and the soft parts louder)
It would also be useful to know whether PCM encoded sound will play on all BR players?

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I want to know about exporting blue-ray from premiere!!!!!!
I hv exported a blue-ray clip from AE and imported it to premiere to add the sound track every thing seemed alright till (File>Export>Media> ....) i got my final clip with no sound ( though I HEARD IT WHILE EDITING ). why???
P.S: am new to premiere so I need ur suggestions. Thanks again.

Oh hello facebook page's admin
look, I said am new to adobe ( i watched some guiding tuts ) to help me recognaize this new software
but am not new to video editing i used to work on final cut pro and I've taken final cut courses ( basics and advanced ) .
and just because I dont have apple I had to switch to adobe but it surprised me (talking about the AE) liked it really and happy to get to know more and more. that's it
Now I still didnt get how could i bring out a blu-ray output with sound active!

Blue ray Export error code 2

I am using Adobe Encore CS4
Checking the project gives no error. But during Build when transcoding transcoding Following Error Comes
Blu-ray Object;"Movie",Error;"device error",Code "2", Note"Too many streams of PG stream in Clip"(Spec Table 9-3,Annex B)
Encore transcodes the main video. The imported video is in avi format.
The compression setting for the same are
Project Setttings
Authoring Mode blu-ray
Seetings PAL,1920x1080, Mpeg-2,frame rate 25
Maximum Audio/video bitrate 15.0 Mbps
Audio Transcoding PCM
Player Adobe Player
Export Settings
video
1920x1080i,25,high quality
video quality 5,
Profile main
level high
bitrate encoding VBR,2 Pass
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gop m frame 3, nframe 12
Audio
PCM , Output channel Stereo, Sample 16bit
Frequency 48khz

Try Save As and rename the file. Can you export the file now as a different format?
I'm guessing it's a corrupt file or it's written on bad blocks on your drive resulting in problems.
Run Repair Permissions:
1. Open Disk Utility in your Applications/Utility folder.
2. Click on the First Aid tab and select Repair Permissions
3. Click on the icon for your boot volume.
4. Click the repair permissions button.
To Repair your drive, you have to boot from another device.
Option 1) If you have your Install CD for Snow Leopard you can boot from the CD to run Repair Drive.
Option 2) If you have a clone backup, you can boot from the clone and run Repair Drive.

Blu Ray export is corrupted, help!

When exporting as Blu ray, FCP burns the disc allright, but when I view it with my blu ray player, all the video clip parts of thw movie are replaced with one 2second loop from the beginning of the movie. All photos show correctly though, and the sound plays properly in the background. In the timeline the movie plays correctly. FCP has rendered it 100%.

Go back to http://forums.adobe.com/community/encore/encore_general
Enter
export file not found
in the area just under Ask a Question
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CS6 H264 Blu Ray Export Dolby Digital not bitrate selection Issues

Hello,
if we try to export in H264 for Blu Ray Format and switch to Dolby Digital the bitrate selection vanishes from the setting:
But if we deselect the audio export and select it again the bitrate can be set correctly.
Seems to be a small error in the media encoder CS6

I'm seeing the same thing here.

Compressor 4.1.2 Blu-ray poor quality

I upgraded to Compressor 4.1.2 and my Blu-Ray disks became pixelated. I wonder if Compressor 4.1.2 is deciding to use hardware compression at all times. I tried multi pass, no multi pass, automatically select bit rate, manually set max bit rate, etc. It just didn't matter, the 4.1.2 Blu-ray disks were "blocky" in places. The disks were mostly comprised of photographs with almost no movement. The file size for the bad disk was 197 meg and 478 meg for the good disk when both were created with the "multi pass" setting enabled. That inidcates I had uninstalled 4.1.2 and reinstalled it. I tried throwing away compressor plists. I also tried putting Compressor 4.1.2. on another volume that was not polluted with a bunch of installs such are Persion, Avid, etc. That hardly used volume also produced a low quality Blu-ray.
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File sizes without either bit rate or duration of the movie isn't enough information to go on.
Compressor doesn't use hardware acceleration with mult-pass. But if it did, with content that is essentially static, I would expect little to no difference.
The other piece of the puzzle is the source media file. What is it? What does Media Info or Videospec report?
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I am in the process of finishing a Blu-Ray project and I want to export it for Blu-Ray discs. Usually I would 'build' an ISO and burn that to a disc, so my first question is, is that the best way to do it? Export an ISO of the project and then burn that onto discs, or should I burn to discs straight from Encore?
Secondly, should I build a BD-R or a BD-ROM (and would I need different discs?) I want these Blu-Rays to play in most Blu-Ray players if not all. And also, what is BD-ROM content that I can add?
My last question is how do I name the Blu-Ray disc so for example, when someone puts it in their PS3, it says the title of my film instead of "untitled"? Is this something in Encore or in my ISO burning program (providing I burn ISOs)?
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Export an ISO of the project and then burn that onto discs, or should I burn to discs straight from Encore?
Partly because Encore burning effectiveness was poor in the past, many of us have never tested it in CS6. So I much prefer build to image (or folder) and burn with something else (I use ImgBurn).
Secondly, should I build a BD-R or a BD-ROM (and would I need different discs?) I want these Blu-Rays to play in most Blu-Ray players if not all.
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http://forums.adobe.com/message/5450695#5450695
how do I name the Blu-Ray disc so for example, when someone puts it in their PS3, it says the title of my film instead of "untitled"?
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This is a strange and *very* frustrating problem.
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I'm building a slideshow of hi-res 1920x1080 jpegs for Blu-ray. The stock images look great. However, after rendering and playing back in simulation, these images are filled with DV artifacts. I thought that this might just be due to the simulator so I burned a Blu-ray disc. I played this back on our big wide screen display through a Sony Blu-ray player and the artifacts are still there. The settings were for Blu-ray H.264 1920x1080P. Can anyone shed some light on what I may be doing wrong. I would think that with Blu-ray, the images should look equal to the source.
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Slight brightening of screen before new credits and scene transitions -- Blu Ray Export

Hey friends ---
I have an annoying problem and is one of those things that isn't 'glaring' which makes it difficult to find a straight, easy answer to.
After exporting my premiere pro cs5 timeline to bluray mpeg2 and authoring/burning it through encore, I am noticing a VERY annoying 'flicker' or 'brightening' of the black screen right before a new opening credit and even after scene transitions during playback of the final burned bluray disc. It's as if the screen brightens slightly one frame before the new credit or during the first frame of a new shot. Very annoying, and yes, it is subtle but it is very strange -- and whats worse is that it's not consistent. Sometimes it happens, sometimes it doesn't!
Does anyone know what I'm talking about?
My source footage is from a canon 7d, 1920 x 1080p -- film shot at 24 fps. I am burning on BD-R bluray discs and am using my Playstation 3 for playback.
I've attached my bluray exporting settings --- maybe someone knows what's happening here and can help out ?
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Name: blu ray video
Description: No description
File Extension: m2v
Estimated file size: 7.91 GB/hour of source
Type: MPEG-2 video elementary stream
Usage:Blu-ray
Video Encoder
Format: M2V
Width: 1920
Height: 1080
Pixel aspect ratio: Square
Crop: None
Padding: None
Frame rate: 29.97
Frame Controls: Automatically selected: Off
Start timecode from source
Aspect ratio: 16:9
Field dominance: Automatic
Average data rate: 18 (Mbps)
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Best motion estimation
Closed GOP Size: 1/2 second, Structure: IBBP
Name: blu ray audio
Description: No description
File Extension: ac3
Estimated file size: 82.4 MB/hour of source
Audio Encoder
Format: AC3
Sample Rate: 48.000kHz
Channels: 2
Bits Per Sample: 16
Target System: Generic
Data Rate: 192 kbps
Compression Preset: Film Standard
Audio Coding Mode: 2/0 (L, R)
BitStream Mode: Complete Main
Center Mix Level: -3dB
Surround Mix Level: -3dB
Dolby Surround Mode: None
LFE Exists: No
Dialog Normalization: -27 dbFS
Copyright Exists: Yes
Original Content: Yes
Audio Production Information Exists: No
RF Overmodulation Protection: Off
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DC Highpass Filter: On
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3dB Attenuation: Off
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How can I fix this?

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Question on Blu ray image size output and reducing the size

Hi
I have been using encore for blu ray projects which is been proving very helpful. However recently i have had a issue with output size on files. Normally Encore gives me it's estimate that it will fill the disc nicely and provides a image/folder which is about 17-20GB (using 25GB disc) but now out of the blue it's files sizes it outputs has been 24.8GB which technically is less than 25GB but as anyone knows who burns to media, the disc doesn't actually have 25GB of space (something like 23,8 or something, i can't remember without checking). Anyway of course this is a issue because my output size is contantly now coming up to be about 600MB - 1GB over the disc actual size, i figured Encore normally compresses files to fit considering i have burned similar amounts/size media before and never had a issue.
Anyway my issue is the slightly larger file size, i figured the easiest way to reduce the blu ray output size was to of course play with the transcode settings, which usually are set to the default settings for Blu ray (the quality preset is called something like "1280x720p 50 High Quality MPEG-2") so of course i thought to lower the bitrate a little just for a test, so i did just that and cut the default bit rate from 25[Mbs] to 20, i didn't want to lower it too much as it was a test to see what i could save for file size. Anyway so i re-transcoded the file and built another image, sadly the image size oddly enough came out as 26.something GB... so it actually grew in size by reducing the file bitrate which put me at a loss. I was wondering what common ways i could use to lower this file size just by a few hundred MB or up to 1GB in this case without having to remove content from the disc (it would be a waste to not only seperate the content but to use a whole disc for a leftover 600mb-1gb project). I of course want to keep quality as high as possible but i understand when trying to reduce size quality has to normally be hit in these situations so i can deal with a slight loss of quality. I have been browsing the forums here and though some topics seem similar they have the issue of file sizes coming out as 40GB+.
Now im no genius with Encore, normally as said the file size is always between 17-20GB as i figure encore was using a "fit to disc" type feature but because the output size is technically below 25gb but not actually below enough to burn i was wondering 2 things:
1) is it possible to make encore it's self shrink these files a little more, lowering the target size down by 1GB would do wonders but only option i have seen is to have a 25GB disc or DL disc with no option to customize the output size (forcefully lowering it by 1GB).
2) because i imagine the above can't be done i was wondering how to go about reducing the size by around 1GB or so, i don't need like 10GB freeing up so it's only a small amount, as said this is a issue i have had with the last few projects i made and the size varies from needing 600MB - 1GB (it doesn't usually exceed needing 1GB free space... besides when i lowered the bit rate which increased size a lot). In the past i always just cut the bitrate of files down a little (never by lots but enough to free space up) but clearly that failed my test so im at a loss of how to reduce file size without a huge loss in quality.
For the record i have already produced the file as both a image file and a folder and both have the same issue.
Extra info on the project:
It contains 4 Menu's, 13 video files which vary in lengh from short ones at about 5mintues to longer ones which the largest is about 20minutes. I commonly burn this number of video files/space with fine quality and no issue so i would rather not take files from the project.
quality preset details are defaultly as said above set to "1280x720p 50 High quality MPEG-2" settings, i am not on my computer with encore at the moment so i can't post full specifics right now but if you have encore handy you should be able to check.
Tried reducing bit rate but that increased overall size, the actual plan was to hopefully lower the bit rate to around 21 [mbs] (from 25) and then do that for multiple (or all) files until it fitted but after it increased the size i lost hope there, it said the estimated file size (on the individual video) would drop by around 300-400mb but that didn't work.
I have tried both folder and iso which always come out the same size.
Basically my main question/problem is any suggestion to drop the file size by up to 1GB without taking items out the project or a real high loss in quality (i don't mind small loss though as i can apply whatever solution to all files which should help).
Any suggestions what i can try? as you probably gather im not a genius when it comes to this stuff but i tried including what i thought is relevent.

Hi and thank you for the reply;
one problem i seem to be having when reducing the bitrate is the file size is oddly increasing from 24.8GB to 26.4GB, i can't really figure this one out as well it's having the oppisite effect. I checked the "streams" folder on output and decided to compare automatic transcoding to manual lowered bitrate and im not too sure where the increased file size is going, i found which video file it was causing the issue, all videos files range or average around 1.6GB each but one file was taking 4.5GB, after lowering that files bitrate it cut it down to 2GB which was of course saving me 2GB from the old file but the overall size had increased which was odd. Seems the other files are all the same so it hasn't tried improving them (so it seems) so i can't make ends of why the size is increasing.
I will try playing with the source file to see if i can do anything that way, if not i will try transcoding in premiere (i have had troubles with this before so i try to avoid it).
Oh and yes i was using Automatic.
Anyway i will see if editing the file outside might help first and see how that works. Thanks again for the reply.

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