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Hi guys,
I'm one of those lurkers in the forum who learns a lot from every single one of you and is appreciative of the technical support, guidance, and ideas.
Hopefully I can be of some assistance to those trying to create high quality blu-ray's quickly.
I've been looking for that perfect workflow for "near" real-time output to elementary 1920x1080 60i m2v streams for quite some time now. I was used to Adobe's way of doing things, with a 10:1 ratio of transcoding DV25 to 720x480 m2v back in the days of Premiere 6.5, and the same ugly ratio when transcoding HD footage to either HDV or to Blu-ray M2V.
I came across Edius and quickly fell in love with its stability, speed, versatility, and best of all, its batch processing capabilities. I use MPG generic as my speed setting when outputting to SD DVD's. Yesterday, I transcoded 8 hours of DV25 material to 720x480 m2v in only 1.5 hours on my new Dell XPS 420 system (Quad core). That made my 80 hour work week worth it...
I have a dual quad core Mac pro running boot camp, and I was able to get real-time encoding in Procoder when using all 8 cores with the queue manager (1 2hr clip would take 4 hours, but 2 2hr clips would also take only 4 hours), but I did not like that workflow cause I needed to export my whole project as another Canopus HQ file, wasting precious resource time.
The only thing more that I could have asked for was a compliant 1920x1080 stream from the MPG Generic setting. It "passed through" in DVDit Pro HD, but that was only good for movie-only BD-r's, for authoring menus, I wanted to use Encore, and that did not like my MPG from Edius.
Came out the thinking cap, what can I do...? Ah! Let's try TMPGEnc!!! Opened TMPGEnc, went to MPG tools, simple de-mux, short while later, elementary streams...crossing my fingers...import m2v file into Encore...Hallelujah!!!
It took me 55 minutes to encode a 60 minute movie, and another 10 minutes or so to de-mux it. So 65 minutes of processing time to bring a compliant 60 minute HD stream for blu-ray authoring into Encore.
I hope this helps everybody who hasn't been able to sleep because their clients' blu-ray demands were hard to accomodate on time and on budget.
Thanks,
Eugene
I'm one of those lurkers in the forum who learns a lot from every single one of you and is appreciative of the technical support, guidance, and ideas.
Hopefully I can be of some assistance to those trying to create high quality blu-ray's quickly.
I've been looking for that perfect workflow for "near" real-time output to elementary 1920x1080 60i m2v streams for quite some time now. I was used to Adobe's way of doing things, with a 10:1 ratio of transcoding DV25 to 720x480 m2v back in the days of Premiere 6.5, and the same ugly ratio when transcoding HD footage to either HDV or to Blu-ray M2V.
I came across Edius and quickly fell in love with its stability, speed, versatility, and best of all, its batch processing capabilities. I use MPG generic as my speed setting when outputting to SD DVD's. Yesterday, I transcoded 8 hours of DV25 material to 720x480 m2v in only 1.5 hours on my new Dell XPS 420 system (Quad core). That made my 80 hour work week worth it...
I have a dual quad core Mac pro running boot camp, and I was able to get real-time encoding in Procoder when using all 8 cores with the queue manager (1 2hr clip would take 4 hours, but 2 2hr clips would also take only 4 hours), but I did not like that workflow cause I needed to export my whole project as another Canopus HQ file, wasting precious resource time.
The only thing more that I could have asked for was a compliant 1920x1080 stream from the MPG Generic setting. It "passed through" in DVDit Pro HD, but that was only good for movie-only BD-r's, for authoring menus, I wanted to use Encore, and that did not like my MPG from Edius.
Came out the thinking cap, what can I do...? Ah! Let's try TMPGEnc!!! Opened TMPGEnc, went to MPG tools, simple de-mux, short while later, elementary streams...crossing my fingers...import m2v file into Encore...Hallelujah!!!
It took me 55 minutes to encode a 60 minute movie, and another 10 minutes or so to de-mux it. So 65 minutes of processing time to bring a compliant 60 minute HD stream for blu-ray authoring into Encore.
I hope this helps everybody who hasn't been able to sleep because their clients' blu-ray demands were hard to accomodate on time and on budget.
Thanks,
Eugene
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