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Blu-ray Authoring with Final Cut Pro suite
Hi, I’ve heard that Apple are incorporating Blu-ray support into Final Cut Pro suite including support for Blu-ray drives/burners and allowing one to author a proper Blu-ray title not an HD one.
Does anyone know any more about this? How near is this support going to be. Is it going to be like when Apple incorporated Spruce into FCP and really make it make DVD?
Any help or inside knowledge gratefully received.
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[Hilary Lambert] “Hi, I’ve heard that Apple are incorporating Blu-ray support into Final Cut Pro suite including support for Blu-ray drives/burners and allowing one to author a proper Blu-ray title not an HD one.”
First, that’s just rumor right now. No one at Apple has confirmed for me that they will be incorporating BluRay into DVD Studio Pro anytime soon.
Second, BluRay discs ARE High Definition. That’s all they are.
As of right now you can author BluRay discs using Adobe Encore which is what we do. We’ve authored four BluRay titles to date and have 5 more in the queue.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
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It would seem logical that Apple will do this. As to when, who knows.
If you need to author BluRay titles right now on your Mac, check in to Adobe Encore.
Jeremy
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Woops, sorry Walter. Didn’t refresh before responding.
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[Jeremy Garchow] “It would seem logical that Apple will do this. As to when, who knows.”
Funny thing is, it’s not a slam dunk as you would expect it to be. I’ve heard directly from folks trying to convince Apple to add BluRay to DVD SP because it’s not a done deal.
Ironically Pixar produces the absolutely most incredible BluRay discs on the market. If you have not seen Cars or Ratatoulle on BluRay, you haven’t really seen what the format is capable of. Wonder what they’re using to compress and author……
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media
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What do you use to compress? Compressor I’d imagine?
Unfortunately, I was in the HDDVD camp (I bought the cheapo add-on to my XBox360) so I have not seen a BluRay movie yet.
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For live action, (4k restored) Blade Runner is incredible.
It looks so good it seems like it was made this year.
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[Jeremy Garchow] “What do you use to compress? Compressor I’d imagine?”
Yep
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media
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[Chris Borjis] “For live action, (4k restored) Blade Runner is incredible.”
And “FlyBoys” that’s the best BluRay live action I’ve seen outside of National Geographic stuff.
Worst movie? “Chicago” Looks worse than the Standard DVD, as if they recompressed the movie off an MPEG-2 original. Just terrible.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media
HD and SD Production for Broadcast and Independent Productions.STOP STARING AND START GRADING WITH APPLE COLOR
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Hi Walter,
May I ask what you’re doing about licensing? The fees for Blu-ray distribution and replication seem so outrageous that it hardly seems worth it.
Thanks.
All the best,
Tom
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[Tom Wolsky] “May I ask what you’re doing about licensing? The fees for Blu-ray distribution and replication seem so outrageous that it hardly seems worth it.”
We have our own duplicator.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media
HD and SD Production for Broadcast and Independent Productions.STOP STARING AND START GRADING WITH APPLE COLOR
The new Color Training DVD now available from the Creative Cow!
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