FCP-L: Re: [FCP-L] FCS surround encoding

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Re: [FCP-L] FCS surround encoding

On Oct 28, 2009, at 12:06 PM, I previously wrote:

> I've succeeded in making such a disc that plays HD in my Sony
Blu-ray player (a Sony 550) with stereo audio. But I have not yet been
able to create one that has ac3 5.1-channel audio on it. How do I make
a DVD that plays Blu-ray data on a Blu-ray player in HD and has ac3 5.1
surround sound?

On Oct 28, 2009, at 3:07 PM, Patrick Inhofer wrote:

> I've made BD-Rs with 5.1 mixes as AC3 through compressor and authored
in Encore.
> Are you talking about burning to BD-r or DVD-r using AVCHD through
something like Toast?

I answer:

Yes, I'm trying to make a DVD-R that plays on a Blu-ray player as if
it was a Blu-ray disc. As Dave Sacher calls it a "BD-On-DVD".
I have made ac3 files Dolby Digital encoded with Compressor. I do not
have Encore. I am trying to use Roxio Toast10 to do the disc burning.
Toast10 makes beautiful BD-On-DVDs in stereo; I'm having trouble
getting a multiplexed file of both video and ac3 audio which Toast will
accept that will play in 5.1 surround sound. Toast cannot do the ac3
encoding. Compressor can, but it cannot seem to do the necessary
audio/video multiplexing step that Toast needs. I've been using the
free utility tsMuxeR to do the multiplexing, but sometimes it won't
accept the H.264 video file as valid for multiplexing and gives errors
(which don't tell me what's actually wrong). If I can't multiplex, I
can't make the high-definition DVD with 5.1 surround sound. If you
have any suggestions of what I'm missing or doing wrong, I'm listening.

Dennis Degan, Video Editor-Consultant-Knowledge Bank
NBC Today Show, New York