-
1. Re: AVCHD Blu-ray passthrough clarification
JSS1138 Oct 18, 2011 5:03 PM (in response to Sengstack)I just don't use Dynamic Link. It's sort of a "Big Button" feature most useful to the novice or for quick one-offs. I prefer to have more control of things.
For Blu-ray projects, you can export out of Premiere Pro using an H.264 Blu-ray preset. No further transcoding needed. (I even keep the exported PCM as PCM on the disk.)
-
2. Re: AVCHD Blu-ray passthrough clarification
Sengstack Oct 18, 2011 7:20 PM (in response to JSS1138)Jim,
I appreciate your take on the "big button" concept. But what I'm trying to clarify is whether there is a way to go from P Pro to Blu-ray without transcoding.
Jeff
-
3. Re: AVCHD Blu-ray passthrough clarification
Stan Jones Oct 18, 2011 8:10 PM (in response to Sengstack)See this thread:
http://forums.adobe.com/message/3045149#3045149
Note two inmportant things:
a) The promotional information that the original postger refers to no longer says anything about AVCHD in the Encore section (the discussion was in the CS5 days). But my post suggests that it was there and it only claimed that Encore could take AVCHD from camera (if it was legal BD) and not transcode it in an Encore project. Premiere still does not provide smart rendering, so once the materials comes into PR and gets exported, it is not the same as was you are looking for.
b) The "solution" in that thread I believe involved the edited material in Premiere being transcoded. If that is happening, it really doesn't seem to me to matter that it is something other than AVCHD.
See Encore help regarding AVCHD passthrough:
Note the first comment at the bottom, that explains that the additional qualifier is that the AVCHD is BD legal, and that at least one camera's output was not legal.
-
4. Re: AVCHD Blu-ray passthrough clarification
Sengstack Oct 18, 2011 8:42 PM (in response to Stan Jones)Thanks Stan.
I had read the post and the Help file section before making my post.
The Help section says "Encore does not transcode Blu ray legal (as per BD spec) AVCHD files (MTS,M2TS) when building a blu ray."
What has not been explained is point #3:
1) P Pro works with AVCHD in its native format. No transcoding is needed to edit it.
2) Dynamic Link does not transcode. It, in effect, opens a P Pro sequence in Encore without transcoding the original AVCHD files.
3) So...why does it not follow that Encore transcodes a Dynamic Link P Pro sequence with "legal" BD spec settings and in which "legal" AVCHD files reside?
Jeff
-
5. Re: AVCHD Blu-ray passthrough clarification
Stan Jones Oct 19, 2011 5:56 AM (in response to Sengstack)3) So...why does it not follow that Encore transcodes a Dynamic Link P Pro sequence with "legal" BD spec settings and in which "legal" AVCHD files reside?
As you said in your first post, you're wanting someone from adobe to explain this. I do believe my answer (PR/AME does not do smart rendering) is true. As to the whys, etc, I'm not sure they will be fully answered.
The best attempt I have seen was from Wil Renczes a year or so ago as to why smart rendering is a more difficult process to implement in PR that I had realized.
-
6. Re: AVCHD Blu-ray passthrough clarification
JSS1138 Oct 19, 2011 10:50 AM (in response to Sengstack)whether there is a way to go from P Pro to Blu-ray without transcoding.
Not at this time. (At least, not if you edit it first.)
-
7. Re: AVCHD Blu-ray passthrough clarification
Sengstack Oct 19, 2011 5:43 PM (in response to JSS1138)Jim,
Thanks for your reply here and your two replies to another thread clarifying all this. I think I've got a handle on it now.
Jeff



