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cristalq33952068
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November 21, 2018
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Premiere Pro - Blu Ray Burning

  • November 21, 2018
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Hello -

I am new to Premiere Pro, and I'm having some issues creating a good quality Blu Ray disc. First, I used Premiere Pro CC 12.1.1 to create and export a film, and burn it using Toast DVD with the Blu Ray plug-in and an LG blu ray burner. Since I am working on a Mac, the LG software was not compatible (I called LG and they said it should work with other software such as Toast.) However, after I export the film, I end up with 4 files which I'm not sure what to do with. My question is:

1) Do I somehow need to combine these files in Toast, or should they have been one file after the export?

2) Is this the best workflow for something like this? I read that Encore would be another option, but then I would have to install CS6 and I'm afraid if this would corrupt my current projects currently saved in the newer CC version. Unless you can have both versions installed at the same time? I started the installation, but stopped after I received an error message.

3) Is there another program that would be better for this? Or perhaps I am using the wrong settings. (1920 x 1080 video, 23.976 fps, h264 blu ray at a 40 bit rate, into a mp4 film) I'm sure I'm leaving out important information, just not sure what I need to include here, I apologize for my lack of knowledge!

Thanks for any help, it is greatly appreciated!

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    Averdahl
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    November 21, 2018

    When you export using the H.264 Blu-ray exporter you will get four files upon export. If you use Toast to author a Blu-ray you only need the .wav/.aif file and the .m4v file. If you use the authoring function of Toast it should be able to combine the two files. I am not a Toast user so i am not sure what Toast can or cannot do.

    If you install CS6 it will not mess with your current installation of Premiere Pro since it will co-exist with CS6 without problems. I suggest using Encore CS6 for authoring Blu-ray discs as it works great, accepts files from Premiere Pro and has a tight integration with Photoshop CC.

    cristalq33952068
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    November 24, 2018

    Thanks so much for your help! I actually went ahead and downloaded CS6, however, I'm having trouble with the final quality of the blu ray disc now. It appears a bit overexposed and noisy with some artifacts. The film looks fine though when I watch it after exporting, so I'm thinking something is going wrong when I burn the disc perhaps? I have been reading over so much information on the forums and watching tutorials, I think I'm getting myself even more confused! I just want to clarify the workflow -- after exporting from Premiere Pro, I pull the files into Encore CS6, and then it's ready to burn from there, correct? I read something about Media Encoder also -- should that be a part of the workflow as well? I've also been trying different settings from what I listed earlier to see if that helps -- I kept h264 and just lowered my bit rate now so hopefully that works. Sorry for so many questions, but any help would be appreciated!

    Averdahl
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    AverdahlCommunity Expert
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    November 24, 2018

    What you want is to export using the H.264 Blu-ray Exporter. What you want to see is Don´t Transcode in Encore and you must be sure that the export are correct, for example exporting 1920x1080 23.976 as 1920x1080 23.976. Any mis-match will produce lower quality.

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