Gregory Barringer
February 4th, 2010, 10:03 PM
First I want to thank everyone here that helped me. I'm posting this to help others. This is true Blu-ray, not AVCHD.
The trick to doing this is having FCP "video and audio settings" match your camera. Since I'm using a Nikon D3s to shoot HD video, there are no presets to match the camera. Here are the steps I use.
1. Copy Nikon .AVI files to hard drive
2. Use Compressor to convert .AVI to Apple ProRes 422 (HQ) - I created a Droplet in Compressor to bulk load the files. File>Create Droplet
3. Set Audio/Video (A/V) settings in FCP to match converted .AVI
a. In A/V settings, set Compressor to None.
b. In Sequence settings match the coverted .AVI, set QT Compressor to match converted .AVI
4. Export to Quicktime, (not QT converter) It took 1 minute to export 10 minutes on the timeline, file was 2.42GB
5. Open DVD Architect (DVDA)
6. Set bit rate to 35 Mbps
7. Burn Blu-ray disc, It took 8 minutes
8. Have a beer
I'm using a Mac Pro 8 core with Windows7 installed with BootCamp for DVDA so rendering is quick.
Some of the settings I tried needed 36 hours. The rendering involved here was one minute to create the ten minute movie.
The trick to doing this is having FCP "video and audio settings" match your camera. Since I'm using a Nikon D3s to shoot HD video, there are no presets to match the camera. Here are the steps I use.
1. Copy Nikon .AVI files to hard drive
2. Use Compressor to convert .AVI to Apple ProRes 422 (HQ) - I created a Droplet in Compressor to bulk load the files. File>Create Droplet
3. Set Audio/Video (A/V) settings in FCP to match converted .AVI
a. In A/V settings, set Compressor to None.
b. In Sequence settings match the coverted .AVI, set QT Compressor to match converted .AVI
4. Export to Quicktime, (not QT converter) It took 1 minute to export 10 minutes on the timeline, file was 2.42GB
5. Open DVD Architect (DVDA)
6. Set bit rate to 35 Mbps
7. Burn Blu-ray disc, It took 8 minutes
8. Have a beer
I'm using a Mac Pro 8 core with Windows7 installed with BootCamp for DVDA so rendering is quick.
Some of the settings I tried needed 36 hours. The rendering involved here was one minute to create the ten minute movie.