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A Blu-Ray Solution for the Mac?
I’ve been looking into possible solutions for delivering my HD content, and after reading about all the problems with Encore on the Mac as well as other cost-prohibitive solutions, I came upon this article by Bruce Nazarian on Ken Stone’s web site:
https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/taming_the_wild_blu_2.html
It is a tutorial on how to create a Blu-Ray video disc with simple chapters using Toast 9.0.2 and the HD-BD plug-in. This looks like it might serve my needs for now. I haven’t seen this mentioned here. Is anybody doing this and how well does it work?
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6 Replies
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My understanding is that Encore in CS4 works right.
Sean
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[Sean ONeil] “My understanding is that Encore in CS4 works right.”
Unless you have actually used it and have seen it work multiple times correctly, I would not believe anything Adobe says. That’s based on our experience with Encore CS3 and the Adobe Technical Team. All 12 months of our experience with that team.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media
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The authoring capabilities of both programs are quite shorts. People uses Encore because there in not other cheap option available.
About Toast, it could be fine if you could use it with the MPG-2 encoded with other applications. Not sure if is possible. So far I’ve only heard complains about his encoding quality.
Till now I haven’t heard of the possibility to include titles in H264 with any of the two applications.
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And then, for short duration content, there’s this intriguing possibility:
https://www.dvda.org/content/view/2901/1/
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[Rafael Amador] “About Toast, it could be fine if you could use it with the MPG-2 encoded with other applications.”
Not tried it with version 9 – but version 8 let you use MPEG2 files encoded using compressor.
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Hi Stuart,
You are right. I just sow in Toast 8 the “Reencoding: Never” option.
And now I see in the Nazarian’s tutorial for Toast 9 a similar window with the “Reencoding” too. I guess there is a “Never Reencoding” option (Pity I can not click it in the web site to see if true).
I see as well in the Toast 9 Compression window> Video Format: MPG-2. It seems that offers other options but, again, impossible to click in the page to display them.
no point to look in the Toast web site. Almost no information at al.
rafael
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