![]() Guess what? It is perfectly happy to digest HDV! So I dragged the HDV file in, put the AVCHD settings in Toast at 15 Mbps average, 20 peak, and hit the go button. Would it be willing to take the HDV stream I had exported from Final Cut? This is about as clean as I can give it. Next, I decided that if Toast is going to re-encode no matter what, I need to give Toast the best quality file I can. Shadows were still noisy and significant artifacting around fine details. In my blu-ray player, the resulting disk looked better than the first, but still not as good as it could look. So I went into the custom settings and set Toast to re-encode at the same bit rate (15/20) that I used when exporting from compressor. It still re-encoded the video stream, even though I selected "don't re-encode." I have decided that no matter what you provide Toast, it re-encodes. I was trying to avoid the re-encoding so this is why I created separate tracks to begin with.) You can then later tell toast to make it AC3 and pick a data rate when it re-encodes. (When you create your AVCHD file from Compressor, check the box to include PCM audio, and Toast will then get the audio. So I burned the disk without the audio as a test. ![]() It would only accept them as two different items. When I imported it into Toast, it was happy to import both the AC3 and the AVCHD file, but would not pair them up. I output a straight HDV file of my edit (took 15 minutes) from FCP to a hard drive, took it over to my relatively new macbook pro, fired up Compressor and did the AVCHD render there. (Keep in mind this is only a 10 minute segment!) I do have a fast laptop, so I decided to move the rendering over there. I output a separate AC3 file for audio at 320 kbps.Īt 12 hours into the render with my old G5, and it telling me that that the render was going to take another 20 hours (!!!), I cancelled it. I used a Compressor preset for HD-DVD again (this time the H.264-based version), changing the bitrates to match my needs. I used 15 Mpbs average/20 Mbps peak on my AVCHD file, figuring that it would definitely be playable on DVD at that rate (going too high will cause skipping). Since the blu-ray spec calls for blu-ray players to be able to play a DVD at ~3x the maximum SD bitrate, we can expect to be able to use up to about 30 Mbps peak on the combined data stream. My next attempt was to output AVCHD from compressor and try that on the disk. Looking at the data stream, I noticed that the video was AVCHD (H.264) even though I had created mpeg2 in compressor and selected "don't re-encode" on Toast. The resulting disk played, but didn't look very good at all. I re-encoded the disk with the "auto-play" button checked, so it would bypass the menu and automatically play the first item on the disk. So I scratched my head, and went back to my office. When I put the resulting DVD in my brand new Sony S-350 blu-ray player, it would not play. My 10 minute segment took over an hour to encode. Even though you have the option to select "don't re-encode" on Toast, it re-encodes anyway. ![]() ![]() Toast 10 easily recognizes the two resulting files, and pairs them up as one stream. My first attempt was to output mpeg2 and AC3 files for my 10 minute test piece using slightly modified versions of the Compressor HDDVD preset, with the thing turned up to full quality (maximum bitrate). I'm editing on an old G5 dual 2 Gig processor desktop machine. My source material is all HDV 1080i/60 edited in HDV codec on FCP. For burning "regular" CDs and DVDs, use your old version of Toast. When was the last time burning a HALF FULL CD took you 14 minutes? 1999? I have opened a tech support call to ask. I used my newly down-loaded version of Toast 10 to write a back-up on CD-R and it took 14 minutes. ![]() My superdrive which goes 40x on CD and 4x on DVD only burns at 3-4x on CD and 1x on DVD with Toast 10. Installed it, and it runs fine.Ī word of note: it burns normal DVD/CD pig dog slow. So, I downloaded Toast 10 with the HD plugin, which cost me $99. My plan was to create "blu-ray spec" disks and burn them on standard DVD-R with the burner I already own. After some research, I decided that Toast 10 should do what I need (I'm on a Mac) until Steve Jobs can get over his "big bag of hurt" and get with the program for blu-ray support for DVDSP. I do not yet own a blu-ray burner, however, I wanted to put some short-form HD content on disk for delivery to a film festival, as blu-ray is the easiest way to distribute HD. ![]()
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