Blu Ray encoding using Compressor - successful replication

Now that Compressor offers Blu ray encoding that apparently pass verification for Blu ray authoring has anybody actually used it and successfully sent a disc to be replicated??? What kind of results are you getting out of Compressor?
Here's my thinking - as Apple seem to be absolutely NOT going to be offering a Blu ray authoring solution then (like many others) I am looking at Netblender's solution which has a proven track record. Now I can buy their authoring solution and also they now offer an encoding solution. Sweet...
But what I was thinking was it is always useful to have a second encoder to hand - as Netblender can take encodes from Compressor. So just wondered what the results were like.

There's apparently some question as to whether Compressor 3.5 encodes Blu-ray as well as Compressor 3.05. Sorry ;-(
My contributors have reported that a Share... export from FCP7 provides far better encoding quality than the current version of Compressor 3.5
However, in general, Compressor streams (AVC and Dolby Digital) have been verified as "stream compliant" using the standard BD pre-replication verifiers. HOWEVER - PLEASE NOTE THAT USING AC3 IN ADOBE ENCORE WILL RESULT IN A NON-VERIFIABLE PROJECT. Encore CS4 throws non-compliant ghost PGCs, which contain AC3 content that will NOT pass replication verification.
Yes, they know about this... No, I don't know when there will be a fix offered.
Bruce

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Repeated Failed or Media Not Found in Blu Ray Encode in Compressor 3.5

I tried six burns using both Share and in Compressor.
On five occasions, Create Disc launched before Compressor had completed the encode, and reported a "file not found" error message.
This is on clean install of 10.5.8 to a fresh volume.
I also disabled the quick cluster and received a failed burn as well.
Brand new 8 core Mac with 12 GB/s of RAM.
You can't get a cleaner system than this.
Using a quad interface OWC blu ray burner with FW800 connection, and pro res 1080/24p footage. Except for the one try with Share, everything was export self contained.

David,
You might even want to reduce your instances to 4. The reason being is that often the intra-processor traffic can get congested when treating the cores as nodes (or even the virtuals) versus treating the processor itself as the node. I found that with the 8 core machines, the sweet spot for virtual clusters was 4 instances.
Also, just did s set of BD and AVCHD burns from both FCP and Compressor with no issue.
Lastly, in terms of visual feedback, the Create Disc icon in the dock provides a Toast-like progress display with the disc filling up from the center out.
bg

Create Blu-Ray: Encodes and burns only small section of movie

I have a late 2013 Mac Pro and I am trying to use compressor 4 to burn a Blu-Ray disc. My source is an Apple ProRes422 encoded Quicktime file (about 1h of video). After about 1 h of submitting the job, compressor displays the status as successful. When I test the disc, the beginning of the movie has indeed burned successfully but the disc contains only a short stretch of the movie. I check the encoded files and they are small (ca 300-500MB) which is telling me that only the beginning of the movie was encoded. How can I burn the whole movie onto a Blu-Ray successfully? What I am doing wrong?
Furthermore, I have several movies that I would like to burn onto one Blu-Ray. How can I do that with compressor other than putting them all into one project in final cut pro and exporting the project to compressor?
By the way all 8 movies burned successfully onto one Blu-Ray with Toast 11 using the same hardware. However, I would like to be able to achieve the same or better result with compressor 4.
Thank you for your suggestions

You are probably not doing anything wrong. The FCP X and Compressor discussion boards have multiple threads from users who are either getting no output from Blu Ray encoding projects - or they get strange results, like very low bit rates, regardless of the settings. Long projects seem more likely to be affected. If you haven't tried it already, see whether you can make a disk image, which Toast should handel without re-encoding.
Not everyone has experienced these difficulties, but AFAIK, no one – on either forum – has come up with an explanation of why.
One of the workarounds has been one that you're already using – Toast. Others have subscribed to Adobe CC Premiere to her the Encore download. One suggestion – apparently originating from an Apple support person – was to use a high bit rate MPEG2 setting.
There have been several posts (from users) that Apple engineers are aware of the issue. I can't confirm that one way or the other.
If you want to put multiple movies on a disk using Compressor or FCP X(assuming the larger issue is somehow overcome) you would need to bring the finished movies into an editing program (including quicktime Pro) as clips, assemble them on a timeline (or track), insert a gap clip and chapter markers and titles for navigation. That's because the process only allows for one track.
The only other suggestion I can make is that if you have a system back up, then you can probably restore the previous versions of FCP X and/or Compressor. and use them for Blu Ray.
Good luck.
Russ

Has anyone burned 1080p blu-ray discs using Final Cut Pro alone?

I am in the market for a new computer. Currently I am a PC user who has burned Blu-Ray discs using Pinnacle. I am dissatisfied with that software because it hangs and crashes at critical moments in the rendering and burn process. I am considering switching to Mac but will only do so if I can burn true Blu-Ray movies which are playable in an ordinary Blu-Ray player.
I have read some of the discussions on this board and it is not clear to me whether it is yet possible to burn 1080p Blu-Ray discs playable on any Blu-Ray player using Final Cut Pro alone. Can someone confirm for me whether they have done this? Some users have indicated they can only output 720p using Final Cut Pro (which is not very satisfying). Others have indicated it is necessary to use Adobe Encore. If you have to use Adobe Encore to burn, why use Final Cut Pro at all? Why not use Adobe Premier Pro for editing and Encore for burning?

David S. wrote:
And yes you can author single track 1080p blu ray discs with Compressor 3.5.
But that's not what the OP asked, "using FCP alone."
Why not use Adobe Premier Pro for editing and Encore for burning?
Well, why not just put CS4 on your PC, especially considering you already have the BD hardware?
There is no truth to the rumor that applications running on Macintosh are any more stable than the same apps a PC; all systems crash.
bogiesan

Premiere Pro CS6 H264 Blu-ray encoder does not do MBAFF interlace

I have been testing the Premiere Pro CS6 H264 Blu-ray encoder with some HDV video 1440x1080i25 top field first and I have found that it always encodes as PAFF even when the MBAFF box is ticked. I analysed the stream with h264_parse and found that the mb_adaptive_frame_field_flag is set to 0 and that the pic_struct flag alternates between 1 and 2. These indicate that the encoder is using PAFF when the MBAFF flag is ticked.
The CS5 encoder does work as it sets the mb_adaptive_frame_field to 1 and the pic_struct to 3 which is correct for top field first.
There is another problem in that Premier pro does not recognise field order of correctly encoded MBAFF video. It reports tff video as progresive and bff as top top field first.
MBAFF generaly gives higher quality pictures.
Regards Trevor

For obvious reasons I do not like to be constanly connected to the internet with my Video Edting PC.
There are no 'obvious' reasons not to stay connected (if you know what you're doing), and in fact very good reasons to do so (more so if you're a Creative Cloud subscriber).
Having said that, there is a way to get the PDF to come up when you hit F1, instead of the online help. I just don't recall where that setting is.

Premiere elements does not recognize Blu-Ray disc, says media not present. Under 12 I was able to record 3 blu-ray dvds using the same burner and discs I'm trying with 13. What is the problem?

I installed PE13 and cannot burn blu-ray DVDs. I was able to burn 3 blu-ray DVDs using PE12. When I select DVD from the menu it recogniazes that it is not a stadard DVD as I get an 'incorrect media' error message. It will burn standard DVDs of the same video using standard DVD mefia.
What is going on here?
When I loaded PE 12 back on the computer I cannot load a file created with PE13. Looks like a format change? Can I convert file back to PE12?

Juergen
Terrible news. Sorry about that.
The following is an excerpt from my Premiere Elements 13 blog post, the section on Publish+Share/Disc
The ISO Image choice is only in Premiere Elements 13.
DISC. Major Changes Include Burn to offering ISO Image for DVD, Blu-ray, and AVCHD plus 2 new 1080p @ 23.976 presets for Blu-ray.
The major categories of Publish+Share/Disc/ are DVD, Blu-ray, and Blu-ray. DVD and AVCHD offer burn to disc, folder, and new ISO image. Blu-ray offers burn to disc and new ISO image.Like 12, the new version's DVD, Blu-ray, and AVCHD presets do not have an Advanced Button under which to customize the preset and do not have a "Share Work Area Bar Only" option for selective sharing of the Timeline content Sketch of DVD, Blu-ray, AVCHD includes
DVD (new features)
Burn to:
Disc
ISO Image (4.7 GB) NEW
ISO Image (8.5 GB) NEW
Folder (4.7 GB)
Folder (8.5 GB)
Presets
NTSC_Dolby DVD
NTSC_Widescreen_Dolby DVD
PAL_Dolby DVD
PAL_Widescreen_DVD
As before in 12, frame rate is 29.97 interlaced frames per second NTSC and 25 interlaced frames per second PAL.
AVCHD (no changes)
Burn to:
Disc
Folder (4.7 GB)
Folder (8.5 GB)
Presets
H.264 1440 x 1080i NTSC Dolby
H.264 1440 x 1080i PAL Dolby
H.264 1440 x 1080p NTSC Dolby
H.264 1920 x 1080i NTSC Dolby
H.264 1920 x 1080i PAL Dolby
H.264 1920 x 1080p NTSC Dolby
Except for the two 1080p presets with frame rate of 23.976 progressive frames per second, the other presets all have a frame rate of 29.97 interlaced frames per second NTSC or 25 interlaced frames per second.
Blu-ray (new features)
Burn to:
Disc
ISO Image (25 GB) NEW
ISO Image (50 GB) NEW
Presets
H.264 1440 x 1080i NTSC Dolby
H.264 1440 x 1080i PAL Dolby
H.264 1440 x 1080p NTSC Dolby NEW
H.264 1920 x 1080i NTSC Dolby
H.264 1920 x 1080i PAL Dolby
H.264 1920 x 1080p NTSC Dolby NEW
Except for the two 1080p presets with frame rate of 23.976 progressive frames per second, the other presets all have a frame rate of 29.97 interlaced frames per second NTSC or 25 interlaced frames per second.
Look to Burn To: in the Burn Dialog, and scroll down there to the option that you want.
Please let me know if this ISO Image choice is going to work for you. But I will keeping searching for the answer to these no media present situations.
ATR

Exporting to blu ray and using episode problem

I have a 60 min HDV time line of which I would like to export to Blu Ray ready for the future so I can then delete the master files and clear some space of the main hard drive.
I bought a program by flip 4 mac called Episode Pro which plugs in to compressor and you can use it to export files apparently quicker and better.
Episode has a drop down box with Blu Ray settings for Video and Audio which I choose. so far so good.
When I tell it to export and then bring up the batch monitor it tells me that it take 3 or 4 days and the first try took 3 days and then a message failed came up.
After that I had to reboot because it messed up FCP too
Am I doing something wrong in episode and if I was to use normal compressor for Blu Ray exporting what settings should I use, I only see HD DVD?
Thank you in advance,
Regards
Darren

These are settings for compressor that I use.
I use bootcamp, windows, and DVDitPro HD to burn blu ray disc.
These settings are what DVDitPro likes ( no re-encoding)
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)
1 Pass VBR enabled
Maximum data rate: 27 (Mbps)
High quality
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
Channel Bandwidth Lowpass Filter: On
DC Highpass Filter: On
LFE Channel Lowpass Filter: On
3dB Attenuation: Off
phase 90: On
Deemphasis: Off

HD DVD/Blu-Ray encoding

Hi,
Hopefully someone can help me as I'm not too tech savvy but I'm willing to learn. I purchased Final Cut Express recently so that I could capture HD video from a Canon HV30 (AVCHD). Now, what I need to know as well as how to do it is this - when I'm done editing my project (which was captured at full res) is it possible to end up with a project in HD DVD and/or Blu-Ray format, if so, how?
I have a MacBook Pro (standard/superdrive dvd burner)
Final Cut Pro 5
Final Cut Express 4
DVD SP 4 (have barely used it)
Compressor 2 (I've never used it)
Currently downloading a trial version of Adobe Encore
I have a standard Sony dvd player/recorder
as well as a Sony Blu-Ray player (so ideally if I can end up with an encoded blu-ray dvd that would be great)
i also need an encoded hd dvd dvd because the person i'm having to hand to project to has a toshiba hd dvd player
If anyone can help you'd be much appreciated!!!

>Currently downloading a trial version of Adobe Encore
Older versions of Encore do NOT work with HiDef, and there is no such thing as a trial version of Encore CS3, which DOES work with HiDef files and BluRay authoring
You need to go out of the Lounge, to the regular forum, and read about BluRay authoring
Specifically, here http://www.adobeforums.com/webx/.3bc459a3/

H.264 for Blu-Ray Encoding Time

Hi All,
I have exported a Pro-Res 1080p 2 hour film from FCPX and just dropped it into compressor. I have then dragged the default H.264 for Blu-Ray settings on my video and it looks like it will take way over three hours. I have a friend running Media Encoder and with the same file on his laptop it does it in 40min and it's a slower spec . I am running Compressor 4.1.3 and the latest MAC OS operating system. I have enabled additional instanced checked and the number 1 in the drop down (there are no other numbers)
Is there anything I am doing wrong, surely it can't be this slow, it's not even set to multipass.
Thanks

Sounds about right to me for a rMBP.
Russ

Instructions: Create Blu-Ray disc in Compressor with Final Cut TImeline

I searched mightily for simple instructions on how to do this. The Compressor help files are woefully inadequate in providing a simple walkthrough to do this. Burning a Blu-ray directly from Final Cut does not allow one to optimize the conversion like compressor does. So:
1) Right click your chosen sequence in Final Cut
2) Click "Share" The Share dialog box will come up.
3) Choose "Blu-Ray" in the destination drop down in the top-left corner of the Share window (don't forget to choose the destination location of the files at the top of the dialog)
4) Click "Send to Compressor" in the bottom-left corner
Compressor will open and a job will automatically be created with Blu-ray video
and Dolby ac3 audio. Set options and submit as usual in Compressor

The send to compressor option occasionally creates problems. Most people would recommend exporting as a self-contained movie, then bringing that into compressor and using your workflow from there.

Encore insists on transcoding H.264 Blu-ray encoded file (Blu-ray legal)

I have a Blu-ray legal .m4v file encoded out of Adobe Media Encoder as H.264 Blu-ray VBR 2-Pass, maximum render, target 25Mbps, maximum 30Mbps.
My project is H.264, maximum 40Mbps.
Encore keeps listing the video file as untranscoded and wants to transcode it.
I've tried encoding just a portion of the video file instead of the whole thing using the same settings and when I bring this into Encore it recognizes it as Blu-ray legal and sets it to "Don't Transcode".
Can anyone think of a reason as to why this is happening? I really don't want to sit through another eight hour encode that could degregade pq further.
Thanks!

A .264 file from x264Pro or MeGUI that is BD-legal will import into En and be automatically set to Do Not Transcode. So the file extension isn't the problem. There are some esoteric H.264 parameters in x264 that must be set precisely in order to have En set the .264 file to DNT. I suspect those same parameters will have to be set in MainConcept's encoder.
If you want to jump in the deep end, here are the x264 parameters that produce BD-legal output that also make En happy:
program --pass 2 --bitrate 16000 --stats ".stats" --open-gop bluray --interlaced --pic-struct --level 4.1 --bframes 3 --ref 4 --slices 4 --aud --nal-hrd vbr --b-pyramid strict --keyint 30 --min-keyint 3 --vbv-bufsize 30000 --vbv-maxrate 40000 --weightp 0 --colorprim "bt709" --transfer "bt709" --colormatrix "bt709" --output "output" "input"
Obviously interlacing, bitrate, vbv-maxrate and such can be set as desired based on the source footage and delivery requirements.
Jeff

Blu-ray Encoding and Authoring Help!!!

I have been trying to burn Blu-ray discs for a couple weeks now but have no satisfactory results. I have been shooting in 1280x720p 29.97 in m2t format editing in premiere pro CS3 and exporting to mpeg 2 for Blu-Ray for authoring in Encore CS3. Im using a Matrox Axio LE with Windows XP
The problem is that all the mpeg 2, Blu-ray video and audio files, that I have encoded from premiere have been different lengths when I bring them into encore. This occurred even when I have tried encoding them separately. Now I have been able to burn a couple Blu-ray discs but the audio starts in sync and slowly drifts out getting worse and worse as the video progresses.
I was able to get one that looked good and seemed to be synced throughout the video. It was encoded at 23.94. But the audio was still many frames shorter than the audio
Since we are shooting in 29.976 we are thinking about starting to shoot in 59.94 because that frame rate is a native resolution for Blu-ray at 720P. But I shot some footage today in 59.94 and exported it to mpeg 2 for Blu-ray and got the same issue all over again and I have no idea why. (I tried using both the Matrox encoder and the adobe encoder as well)
I brought it into a 1280 by 720p 59.94 project and the video and audio were synced on the timeline
Exported it at 1280x720p at 59.94 quality 5, widescreen, progressive 25mbps
Exported the audio separately at 48kHz 16 bit stereo PCM
Imported it into Encore CS3 using Blu-ray setting, NTSC, 1280x720, mpeg 2, audio PCM. Nothing needed to be transcoded and all files were compliant. What am I doing wrong? I cant have video thats out of sync and whats worse is that I have a shoot this week and dont know what frame rate to shoot in. Can anyone help? Does anyone use Encore to burn Blu-rays?

There is a separate sub-forum for Bluray... you might read there to see if any of the other messages will help
http://www.adobeforums.com/webx/.3bc459a3/

Creating Blu ray disc using FCP

I'm curious to know how people are creating a data file for a Blu Ray Disc that use FCP? i.e Toast w/ a third party burner.
Thanks

Will you be using Encore or Toast to encode the video file?
In either you should start a video file exported as self contained current settings from FCP, and encode that to either h.264 blu ray mpeg2 HD in the settings of either Encore or Toast.
What are your sequence settings in FCP?

The Blu-ray bug is Compressor 4.1.2 not FCP X 10.1.2.

TEST 1
Apple OS X 10.9.4 Build 13E28 - Compressor 4.1.2 - Files used is QuickTime 1920X1080i Prores.
The Blu-ray creation work but if you re-insert the BD-RE disc (Verbatim) the disc refuse to eject.
You need to shtdown the computer to get the disc to eject because the finder ger unresponsive.
The MACGO Blu-ray player refuse to play the disc but the disc play in regular Blu-ray players.
The burner used is LG BD-RE WH.16NS40 and everything is clean install two week ago.
TEST 2
Apple OS X 10.9.4 Build 13E28 - Toast Titanium 11.2 - Files used is QuickTime 1920X1080i Prores.
The Blu-ray creation work perfectly with the BD-RE disc (Verbatim) reinsert and the disc eject perfectly.
The MACGO Blu-ray player play the Blu-ray disc perfectly and also any home regular Blu-ray player.
The burner used is LG BD-RE WH.16NS40 and everything is clean install two week ago.
Conclusion : Since Toast Titanium 11.2 with OS X 10.9.4 work Apple Compressor 4.1.2 is the bug.
The disc created with Compressor have make Apple disck utility crash when try eject.

Thank-you Tom your time is appreciate but what is your solution to fix-it , the problem is Compressor but some post on FCP X so sorry for duplicate thread i am only searching for a solution pretty fast Blu-ray are 100 % of my production for clients.

Download blu ray movies using itunes.

Not sure of all the details needed to answer my question, so pls be patient........
I have an lg blu ray player with one hdmi connection to the plasma tv and one optical to the (older) yamaha amplifier for sound.
I've been told that apple tv can be incorporated so that the full pic and sound quality of blu ray is achieved through this system.
Can it be done? If so, what connects to what?
I have a Windows 7 laptop and use wireless at home.
thx very much,
John Bradshaw

Welcome to the Apple Community.
You would need to set up the Apple TV in parallel to your blu-ray player, if your TV and audio system do not have additional inputs you will need to include HDMI/optical switches.

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