With my first project I have had to export all sequences at least 3 times trying to get the file size down far enough to fit on a Blu-Ray disc.
I am wondering if anyone has a setting that works well without any noticeable loss in quality. What I have seems to have worked but I will know more when I can actually watch the movie (see other thread about viewing Blu-Ray movies on my computer).
I captured the video using HDVSplit, originals are m2t files captured over firewire from Mini DV tape.
Imported the files into a Premiere Pro Hi Def project 1920 x 1080i
There is over 2 hours of edited video for this disc and it seems that 2 hours of high quality hi definition video will not fit on a 25gb single layer Blu-Ray disc.
I then exported each segment, once as standard AVI which works fine, and once as Blu-Ray preset using the Adobe Media Encoder. There are a few different presets and I started with the High Quality 1920 x 1080i Blu-Ray. I ended up using the Medium quality setting and dropping the quality to a 2 (default is 3) and lowering the bit rates, low 15, target 20, max 25. This produced files small enough to fit on the disc.
Is there an easier way or any better settings to use that anyone knows of? What about using the H.264 format instead of MPEG m2t?
As always, all help is greatly appreciated