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Aric Mannion · January 11th, 2009, 10:39 AM

I just made my first blu-ray on a dvd with taost 9. It was easy and worked fine. I had it set to 15 Mbps average/16 Mbps peak -letting toast encode. It was an Apple Pro Res video (from HDV) by the way! I will try Apple Intermediate Codec next, since my other videos are in that codec.
The video was 2 minutes and 25 seconds and it took 8 hours overnight to encode on my powerbook.
Jonathan, your blu-ray skipped when you brought your peak up to 18? My video was perfectly smooth on 15-16 mbps. And the video has earth quake effects throughout, so that is definitely a safe bit rate (although I'm not sure if that depends on the video length too?.)

January 11th, 2009, 10:39 AM	#8
Aric Mannion Major Player Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Boston, Massachusetts Posts: 533	I just made my first blu-ray on a dvd with taost 9. It was easy and worked fine. I had it set to 15 Mbps average/16 Mbps peak -letting toast encode. It was an Apple Pro Res video (from HDV) by the way! I will try Apple Intermediate Codec next, since my other videos are in that codec. The video was 2 minutes and 25 seconds and it took 8 hours overnight to encode on my powerbook. Jonathan, your blu-ray skipped when you brought your peak up to 18? My video was perfectly smooth on 15-16 mbps. And the video has earth quake effects throughout, so that is definitely a safe bit rate (although I'm not sure if that depends on the video length too?.)