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Apple, Encore and the right Blu Ray DVD burner
I’m in the UK and I need to soon buy an internal or external burner for my octo core mac. If the burner is external then the speed of esata makes sense to me. I’ve seen fastmac burners and they’re dollar to pound: in other words $400 costs £400 in the UK. Has anyone tried to install a ‘windows’ burner into an internal mac dvd slot and had the happy experience of it working ???? Obviously the costs are half the price. Equally, has anyone got any intelligence about what is happening with MAC and wha is shortly coming with regard to Blu-Ray. I’m keeping my fingers crossed.
A long term DP – likes 35mm and HD equally – changing with digital media – Began as a commercials editor !
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Very good luck with the Panasonic SW-5583 Blu-Ray. It’s SATA. Took all of ten minutes to install in the second bay of my Octo. Had to remove the fan. Ran a SATA cable hooked up to one of the spare SATA ports on the mother board and used a molex to SATA power cable that came with an internal SATA drive I purchased.
Very happy here.
Warren
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Warren – that’s great info. I shall try this asap.
A long term DP – likes 35mm and HD equally – changing with digital media – Began as a commercials editor !
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I bought the LaCie external burner and that has worked well. The speed hasn’t been a factor either, as the burning doesn’t take too long. It’s the encoding that kills you. From my experience, Encore is the weak link in the chain! I highly suggest getting a BD-RW and burning the project to the first.
Ray Lane
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Ray – approximately how long does a 60 minute dvd take to encode (or 30mins or 90mins) whichever you can give me a time on would help. I have a few 60 minute blu rays DVD’s to make
A long term DP – likes 35mm and HD equally – changing with digital media – Began as a commercials editor !
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I encoded a 2 hour movie for Sundance that took about an hour on an 8-Core (MPEG 2). I do use BD-RE to test before committing to a BD-R.
Warren
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[Warren Eig] ” encoded a 2 hour movie”
Using Compressor.
Warren
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Tough to say since you have an octo. My old G5 workstation takes a few hours for a 1 pass VBR through Compressor. The two pass took twice as long. My MacBook Pro seems to be similar using Adobe Media Encoder. And of course if you use MPEG4 it will be a bit longer.
Ray Lane
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Warren – I’m at the beginning of the understanding of this stuff so bare with my ignorance. You said “I do use BD-RE to test before committing to a BD-R. ” Can you explain why to me? Also, Does encore take in flash files? I ask this because when authoring a standard DVD I managed to encode a 4 video stream multi angled project that I need to replicate at HD level but I think the streaming rates would be too high (I did that on DVD studio pro and can’t find anything on encore that would do that). SInce I’ve managed to crack multi-angling in flash I wondered if I could drop swf files on to a blu ray disk and use their operability instead of Blu-Ray’s lack of operability – if you see what I mean.
A long term DP – likes 35mm and HD equally – changing with digital media – Began as a commercials editor !
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Encore CS4 will import FLV & F4V files, but no version of Encore to date supports multi-angle video.
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[Terry Flaxton] “You said “I do use BD-RE to test before committing to a BD-R. ” Can you explain why to me?”
Terry,
The BD-RE is rewritable so I encode in Compressor, author the Blu-Ray in Encore and make a disc image. I then burn the Disc Image from Toast onto the BD-RE, (saves wasting discs because if we are not happy we can erase the BD-RE and burn it again). If I and the client like what we see, we commit it to a BD-R, which is permanent.
HTH,
Warren
Warren Eig
O 310-470-0905email: warren@babyboompictures.com
website: https://www.babyboompictures.comhttps://babyboompictures.com/AFX_Movie2.html
https://babyboompictures.com/KnitWits_Movie.htmlEDITING REEL: https://www.babyboompictures.com/Editing_Reel.html
TITLE DESIGN: https://www.babyboompictures.com/Titles_Reel.html
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