Blu-Ray from 29.93 timeline?

[Tom Matthies]

The entire video ends up looking “jaggy” when the resulting BluRay is played. The MPeg files look fine before burning. Not sure on the settings since I do the compression on my home machine using Compressor 3. I only have Compressor 2 here at work. Ironic huh?
Tom

[Walter Biscardi]

2 thoughts.

Do you have another BluRay player to test? We have both the original Sony BDP-S1 and the new Samsung 1500 and you’d be surprised the playback difference on both. We’ve never seen a difference in the quality of the image, but the performance of the disc differs.

Have you played another BluRay disc in that PS3 to the same monitor and how does it look? I usually use a Pixar film as a test since they are the most pristine BluRays out there. Cars is especially good with all the reflection and hard lines.

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[Tom Matthies]

Thanks Walter.
As far as I know, they haven’t tried playing this disc on any other system. It’s playing out of a PS3 via HDMI to a consumer LCD TV. I don’t have any control over this aspect of the project so I can’t verify that their setup is correct or not. They say that a commercial BluRay looks OK so it could be setup correctly but I can’t say for sure.
All I can say is that the mPeg file looks good before going to disc mastering.
It reminds me of when I worked an an engineer in a large TV production truck. We would check our signal constantly on it’s way to the satellite. When we got a report that something didn’t look right on the other end, we would recheck things on our end again but our response, more often than not, was “The picture looked good when it left the truck.” It’s kind of the same situation.
Tom

[Mark Maness]

[Tom Matthies] “It reminds me of when I worked an an engineer in a large TV production truck. We would check our signal constantly on it’s way to the satellite. When we got a report that something didn’t look right on the other end, we would recheck things on our end again but our response, more often than not, was “The picture looked good when it left the truck.” It’s kind of the same situation. “

This is the quandary we all deal with everyday. I’ve had this sort of issue happen so many times, it’s not even funny anymore. I have come to the conclusion that you cannot please everyone all of the time, and sometimes, not even some of the time.

All you can do is the best quality that you can output with the best equipment that you can afford. If we had budgets like Pixar, our Blu-Ray discs would be pristine, too.

Oh…. One more thing… Has anyone used Adobe Encore for Blu-Ray encoding?

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[Chris Borjis]

[walter biscardi] “Also, beware that 720 fails for us about 2 out of 3 times when we try to use it for BluRay so we always go with 1080i / 29.97”

weird.

that shouldn’t be happening at all. I wonder if DoStudio needs some
work in that section of specification.