4 Replies Latest reply: Apr 30, 2010 5:03 AM by wrfoster68 RSS

    AME H.264 Blu-ray Presets

    Alan Craven Community Member
    Alan Craven Mar 19, 2010 1:04 AM

      The PAL H.264  Blu-ray presets in AME have "Profile" set as High, but in the printed manual for Encore on page 48 at the top there is a warning in italics

       

      "Note: for Blu-ray projects, the encoding profile must be Main when you select H.264 as the encoding format.  You cannot burn a Blu-ray disc when the encoding profile is set to High."

       

      Can anyone give a definitive answer as to which is correct, please?

       

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        • 1. Re: AME H.264 Blu-ray Presets
          Alan Craven Community Member
          Alan Craven Mar 19, 2010 11:01 AM (in response to Alan Craven)

          I think that I may have the answer to my own question.  I scrolled down the list of H.264 presets in Adobe Media Encoder and found that ALL the HD presets, PAL or NTSC; 1920,1440, or 720; interlaced or progressive, have the Profile set at High.  Only the four High Quality SD presets at the bottom have Profile set at Main.

           

          A little research makes me suspect that the warning in the printed Encore CS4 manual that I quote in my first post has the crucial words "Standard  Definition" missing from it:

           

          http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.264/MPEG-4_AVC#Profiles

           

          A search of the Adobe on-line help throws up a blank for this topic, and the equivalent section to pp 47-8 of my printed Encore CS4 manual is taken from the CS3 Help files, and does not include much of the information that is in my manual.

          • 2. Re: AME H.264 Blu-ray Presets
            Alan Craven Community Member
            Alan Craven Mar 24, 2010 12:11 AM (in response to Alan Craven)

            After a struggle with Adobe Support I finally got beyond them telling me how to open a project in Encore, and my query was escalated to someone who could give an answer.

             

            Their answer is that for H.264 Blu-ray compatible files, the Encoding Profile MUST BE SET AT MAIN.

             

            The presets provided in both Adobe Media Encoder and Encore CS4 are wrong - they have Encoding Profile set at High.

             

            I also raised a second Encore Blu-ray problem with them.  Chapter Playlists created in a Blu-ray project work correctly when previewed in Encore, but they do not play on the burned Blu-ray disk.  This is a feature of Encore CS4, caused by Blu-ray being a new technology.  It will be corrected in Encore CS5.

            • 3. Re: AME H.264 Blu-ray Presets
              pebalsamo Community Member
              pebalsamo Mar 24, 2010 9:10 AM (in response to Alan Craven)

              Thanks for letting us know.

               

              Adobe Support is HORRIBLE.  I spent a few months going back and forth with them about a problem that I was having with AVCHD and I kept getting the same type of "click on the Premiere Pro Icon" types of answers that were making me nutty.  I finally just gave up becuase the guy I was dealing with really had no idea even how to use Premiere.

               

              Thanks Again.

              Phil

              • 4. Re: AME H.264 Blu-ray Presets
                wrfoster68 Community Member
                wrfoster68 Apr 30, 2010 5:03 AM (in response to Alan Craven)

                Well I just got Adobe Premiere and made a couple quick bluray disc when I got it and encoded the files using the default settings in the encoder. Encore loaded the video up and did not transcode them and the final disc played back on my deck player with no problems that I could tell. I never thought that the defaults need to be change, but worked for me. I may try the other setting later to see if there is any difference. Maybe it is player dependent on what settings that work.