• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Using Blue Ray DVD as source material for HD Broadcast

  Posted by Ron Maitra on June 2, 2011 at 11:32 am

  Hello All:

  Two quick questions:

  1) Can you use a commercially available (with legal rights to use) blue ray dvd as source material for HD broadcast. Or is it better to upconvert SD material to HD?

  2) How would we import/edit the video file with 5.1 on the said blue ray dvd using FCP or Avid or Premier.

  Our challenge is that HD broadcast tapes for the material are not available from the distributor. He can either provide us a SD file or Blue ray DVD.

  Thanks you all for your help.

  Regards
  Ron

  Eric Pautsch replied 14 years, 11 months ago 4 Members · 4 Replies
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  Eric Pautsch

  June 2, 2011 at 1:19 pm

  You’ll get better answers over at videohelp.com

  I would use AVS. Find the right .mts stream and convert

  https://www.avs4you.com/AVS-Video-Converter.aspx
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  Matt Doe

  June 2, 2011 at 2:33 pm

  Could also use the “analog hole” as it’s called. Capture over HD component/analog audio through a Kona or Blackmagic card. HDMI won’t work because of the HDCP copy protection on commercial discs.

  Not sure how you’d maintain the 5.1 audio stream though during the edit if you actually needed it.
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  Chris Borjis

  June 2, 2011 at 4:20 pm

  [Matt Doe] “Not sure how you’d maintain the 5.1 audio stream though during the edit if you actually needed it.”

  Minnetonka sells conversion software for dolby & dts to turn it back into pcm .wav or .aif streams.

  In this situation probably not worth the cost.
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  Eric Pautsch

  June 3, 2011 at 4:43 am

  There are tons of free tools and guides out there….look around and you will find lots of resources.

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