This whole Blu Ray thing appears to be in a test phase, so here I am beta testing more kit for a multi million pound company...
anyway, I have a blu ray burning problem. I have Nero 8 with Nero vision and the Blu Ray plugin. It appears to be very fussy about what video files it can take. I have a problem in as much as I render out on a Mac then transfer to PC but my PC only has 150GB disks and the Nero software won't burn from an external drive. I have a single movie (actually 18 short films as one large file) which is 220GB and of course it won't fit on my PC. So what codec could I render it to whilst preserving high quality and reducing filesize?
I've tried H264 but Nero won't even see it and refuses the import into BR video disc burning, I'm currently rendering out a Motion JPEG sequence but it's a 13 hour render in HD. I was hoping someone could help me before I pointlessly render out loads more files that are not compatible.
Nero support are useless, on the phone they told me they didn't know (hey, you make the product!) and that someone would get back to me. I'm tired of waiting for them...
So what's a good format that Nero likes that won't turn my films to mush?
What is the codec of the video you are working with? If you're not sure use a program call MediaInfoRaw. Also what are the dimensions of the HD files... 1920x1080 or 1280x720 (just curious).
Are you trying to split your 220gb file into several smaller files to burn to blu ray?
I have found an answer to this and will post up my findings later for others to read.
basically Nero have told me that Quicktime files made on an Apple system are not compatible, except for a select few. It's best to transcode using the Nero coder and then drop into the blu ray Nero Vision app.
Trouble is, this then transcodes again into MPEG2 so from your final film, it needs to go though 2 more processes and quality is paramount for these films. To make sure all was good, I ramped up all the quality settings in Nero Vidion for the BR burn and the render time...70 odd hours for a 53 minute film!
I've given up with the 220GB file, I managed to knock it down to 40 Gig but have since found a better answer, once I see the results I'll post back with my own fix for making Blu Ray from Apple Mac Quicktime videos.
Just for your info, here's the official tested video files that work with Nero, the most reliable Blu Ray burning software I've found (albeit for PC) after several weeks of tests.
The app doesn't like Apple encoded files and it's far better to render out as uncompressed .MOV and then use the Nero encoder to make it ready for the Nero Vision Blu Ray plug-in. Any other MOV will likely be refused by Nero. Inluding H,264, HDV and any motion JPEG codec.
However, if using Apple Compressor, render them out as an MPEG 2 programme stream, blu ray preset (1280 x 720 25fps PAL) this seems to give best results if you want to reduce the filesize.
Look into a program called tsMuxeR, a very handy tool for making Blu-Ray structured files, it takes all sorts of file types. Check out this thread, you can also get tsMuxeR from a link withing the thread.
@maricioF
Knock it off with the language and incoherent writing.
When you learn how to type in proper English - try again and start your own thread.
BTW - if you want to speak Spanish then use those forums.
