[Sark]

Hi,

I'm not having any luck with the “Apple Compressor” settings that the Roxio team outlined at: Legal MPEG-2 streams that pass through DVDit Pro HD:

Apple Compressor

File Extension: m2v
Video Encoder
Format: M2V
Width: 1920
Height: 1080
Pixel aspect ratio: square
Crop: None
Frame rate: 29.97
Frame Controls:
Retiming: Nearest Frame
Resize Filter: Linear Filter
Deinterlace Filter: Line Averaging
Adaptive Details: On
Antialias: 0
Detail Level: 0
Field Output: Same as Source
Aspect ratio: 16:9
Field dominance: Top first
Average data rate: 21.1 (Mbps)
1 Pass VBR enabled
Maximum data rate: 25 (Mbps)
High quality
Best motion estimation
Closed GOP Size: 15, Structure: IBBP


I’ve tried several variations of source media, including an HDV 1440x1080 camera capture out of Final Cut Pro and an uncompressed 1920x1080 render out of after Effects, both of which I then converted to .M2v using the settings outlined above.

But, when try to import the clips into DVDit Pro HD, we get a message saying the files are not compliant.

I don’t want DVDit Pro HD to compress the files again after I render them out of the FCP timeline. I’d rather just output a legal stream and be done with the transcoding process.

Any ideas why the Apple Compressor specks outlined by Roxio are not working as they say they will? They must have had success with these settings otherwise they wouldn’t have posted them as being usable.

Thanks

This post has been edited by Sark: 28 August 2007 - 10:32 AM

[SS Scott]

are you getting a "not Blu-ray compliant" message or a "not DVD compliant" message?

[Sark]

are you getting a "not Blu-ray compliant" message or a "not DVD compliant" message?

Thanks for the quick reply. I'm getting this:

One or more file(s) are not complient with the DVD specification and were not imported. To import non-complient files select "import all and attemp to transcode non-complient files at burn time" from the preferences window.

[TomInIowa]

compressor settings on mac.

I use Compressor on my mac and have several different problems in DVDit Pro.
I tried to match the exact settings listing but the problems still exist. The only way
I been able to get everything to work (chapter markers, ...) was to tell DVDit Pro
to recode everything, and then create a new project using the newly created files.does anyone have the exact settings in a file?


If anyone has created a "Compressor " setting that works on a mac, it created a file on their computer.
(in the folder: user/xxxx/library/application support/compressor/?????.settings )

A link to the file would be wonderful.

This post has been edited by TomInIowa: 28 August 2007 - 12:15 PM

[Sark]

compressor settings on mac.
does anyone have the exact settings in a file?
from the folder: user/xxxx/library/application support/compressor/?????.settings

That would be great. Or even just an account of having successfully used the settings listed above. Has anybody worked with these settings?

This post has been edited by Sark: 28 August 2007 - 12:35 PM

[SS Scott]

Sark. In your preferences you have told the application to not import non-compliant files. you should change that setting to "import and attempt to transcode" as the message that popped up suggested.

The warning says not DVD compatible and your file is not. 25mbs exceeds the DVD spec. the warning does not say the file is not Blu-ray disc compatible because it is. If you make the change in your preferences, you should be able to import the video and it should just pass through when outputting to Blu-ray.

Scott

[Sark]

Sark. In your preferences you have told the application to not import non-compliant files. you should change that setting to "import and attempt to transcode" as the message that popped up suggested.

The warning says not DVD compatible and your file is not. 25mbs exceeds the DVD spec. the warning does not say the file is not Blu-ray disc compatible because it is. If you make the change in your preferences, you should be able to import the video and it should just pass through when outputting to Blu-ray.

Scott

Scott, thank you so much! I'll try it now

sark

[Sark]

Scott, thank you so much! I'll try it now

sark

Problem solved!!! Thanks Scott. Also, a word to anyone trying this same thing: I turned on the “Do not import non-compliant files” option in the preferences panel, thinking it would be a good way to check the legality of my third party M2v when importing.

Well, you can see the confusion it caused when I received the "non-compliant" message. So leave the "import all" option on and just watch the progress windows during your burn for a sign of transcoding. In my case the file was put through without recompression. Hurray!!

This post has been edited by Sark: 28 August 2007 - 01:09 PM