Friday, April 11, 2014

Best video export settings for Blu-Ray using Premiere Pro CS6

In order to make a Blu-ray directly playable and editable in Premiere Pro CS6 program, this guide will show you how to rip convert Blu-ray movies to Premiere fully compatible format.

It's a great fun if you have a pretty large Blu-ray collection for sharing with your friends or familiars. When you have the digital copies of these movies saved on your hard drive or personal server, you may also like to edit Blu-rays in Premiere Pro CS6 on Mac.


Commercial Blu-rays bring extraordinary video quality to us for family watching and sharing for the large amount of content that can be stored. It's a great fun if you have a pretty large Blu-ray collection, or movie collection. However,it comes with the problems that Premiere Pro CS6 can’t directly ingest Blu-ray files. So, how can we rip Blu-ray movies for Premiere CS6 editing? As far as I know, Premiere Pro CS6 is not so that picky on the formats, but it prefers MOV/MPEG-2 format in editing. Is there any quick and easy way to do this? this?
OK, after lots of searching in google, finally a powerful conversion program is founded to be able to ingest Blu-ray to Premiere on Mac, an all-in-one Pavtube BDMagic for Mac program on Mac. This software does a good job in decrypting and transcoding Blu-rays so that you can easily get the files you want, no matter audio/video only, or both. And the lastest version has added 3D profiles in Format menu. (Side-by-Side, Top-Bottom, or Anaglyph 3D in MKV/MP4/MOV/WMV/AVI). So it now support converting 3D to 3D, and you can get your desired 2D/3D Blu-ray video in 3D effect.

Get this Best Mac Blu-ray Ripper for Premiere Pro installed; you can order a license directly or download a trial version for free before purchase.

How to Rip Blu-ray to Premiere Pro CS6 with Best Blu-ray Ripper for Mac?

Step 1. Load your disc.

There is a disc icon on the top left which let you load from disc, folder or ISO/IFO respectively.



Step 2. Choose your Output directory down which is marked as 2.

For editing Blu-ray movies in Premiere CS6, the AIC is preferred. Click "Format" and choose "MOV (AVC)(*.mov)" or "MPEG-2 (*.mpg)" from "Adobe Premiere/Sony Vegas" option.



PS: It has various profiles and formats so that you can rip blu-ray to various formats according to your needs.

Step 3. Set up frame rate, bitrate and other output settings.

Click Settings, you can find file details including codec, size, bitrate and frame rate. You are able to fix them according to your needs. FYI: the higher bitrate you choose, the better video quality it outputs.

Step 4. Now just press the big circular "Start Conversion" button to convert Blu-ray to MOV/MPEG-2 for Premiere CS6 and let it do its magic. Wait for moments and you will get the fresh hot converted videos for Premiere CS6.

Tips:

1. Refer to here to learn how to import video files into Premiere Pro.

2. Here are some step-by-step guides of how to import Blu-ray to FCPedit DVD in FCP, rip Blu-ray to iMovie/FCE and convert DVD to multi-track Prores for FCP X on Mac.