H.264 Blu-ray Rendering is Blocky at Start

Hi,
I'm rendering some 1920x1080 23.98 video out to H.264 Blu-ray M4V files in After Effects. Once we start authoring the Blu-ray disc in Scenarist we notice the very start of the video, for the first 12 frames or so, is very blocky. It then cleans up and looks great throughout the rest of the video. We are using a bitrate of 25 average and 30 max.
A temporary solution is to render out to uncompressed 10-bit 4:2:2 quicktime and then compress with our CinemaCraft(which doesn't support ANY type of compressed files). But this is a few extra steps and the quicktimes are so big it's kind of a pain and rendering straight out of After Effects would be ideal.
Does anyone have any experience with why it may end up blocky at the start? I've tried this on both Mac and PC versions on After Effects CS3. I don't have CS4 yet, so maybe that solves the problem.
Sorry if this has been covered before, I searched around and didn't see anything. Thanks for any help!
Rey

Ultimately, you're going to get a lesser quality encode directly from AE - it's just not the ideal tool for compressing anything using a temporal compression algorithm, by nature of how AE works.
It's rare for me to use AE as a compression tool. Standard operating procedure is to render a lossless/uncompressed file from AE and encode with a more appropriate tool. In your case, if you're using a Mac, Compressor is the obvious choice. On the PC, you've already mentioned you have Omni CinemaCraft. Either of these tools will be superior to AE as an encoder.

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I then went into the Errors Log and there was nothing about this particular project.
Do you think that maybe the PC is shutting down and restarting? Not sure how I would know that...
Dont get me started on the Pr not supported by XP 64 thing. Quite frustrating to me....
Phil

CS6 H.264 Blu-ray 5.1 Dolby

CS6
I don't seem to have the option of Dolby Digital 5.1 sound export from the H 264 Blu-ray preset.
I have not activated the Surcode plugin yet ( I'm waiting for the code email) but the Mpeg 2 dvd and Blu-ray give the 5.1 option.
Richard Knight

In fact, we discover that the lack of MPEG2 support will be resolved in CS6, but AA CS6 still do not import, but PPro CS6, Encore, AE, will import with no problems , and even that infamous error when importing a project from 5.5 , or CS5 in CS6, he says that there are no importers to decode the content, resolves, it is clear that using external plugins like I use, (Boris, Magic Bullet, Mojo, etc.) must be also be installed on CS6, finally, the CS6 is now open smoothly projects with contents in MPEG2 normally as did the previous one.
The problem is that this solution costs about $ 1000 .... !! yes ... unfortunately ... This price is high as this way when purchasing all the modules that includes all exporters standards for digital cinema, as Motion JPEG and other formats used in Digital film.
To work without need this exporters, the amount paid is less.
The whole problem in this story is that WE HAVE TO BUY, AND PAY more money for a software package of plugins to do something that the old versions were already done .
I think it must have a trick with the Adobe for the behalf of MainConcept, to increase their sales.
For CS5 and 5.5 the version of this package is the MainConcept Suite 5.1 and the CS6 version changed its name to ROVI TOTALCODE V6.01.
Another benefit from ROVI TotalCode is the full support of CUDA hardware from NVIDIA. It can be used to import, play the timeline smootthy , better than Mercury Engine, and
can be use to export ( acceletated presets on Rovi´s Settings pane ) , that cut off substantial time in our work.
I hate to accept that this new purchace was the only solution we learn after months of researh , to get this solutions for us here. The most part of our material is in MPEG, SD or HD.
We here love MPEG !!!!
You guys can get more information on their website in www.mainconcept.com.
So with this solution , all tha way we are accostumated, returns. The PProCS6 goes directely to Encore, to generate our BluRays and DVD etc ...

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