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Blu-Ray on normal DVDs
Hi, I make wedding videos and have had my first request for the finished film to be Blu-Ray. I don’t possess a blu-ray burner and as I am closing my business and this will be my last job I do not want to spend a lot of money on hardware I will never use again. I recently saw an article that said I can burn HD video to a normal DVD using toast with their Blu-ray disc plug in. Does anyone know anything about this.
The footage is : Ex1 xdcam, shot- HQ 1920/50i, edited in FCP7, pro-res timeline. My computer is an iMac and I burn my DVDs using a sony external DVD writer.
Will it work as easily as the manufactures suggest and what quality could I expect. Everything seems to have it’s pitfalls and I wondered what they would be in this case. Any thoughts, advice or insight as to the working process on this would be much appreciated. Regards BRIANbrian paterson
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Yes, I have done this but you only get about 20 minutes on a regular dvd. I use Toast as well.
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Thanks Ron, according to articles I have read you can get up to an hour but can retain best quality up tp 40 minutes. Is this not correct.? Do I have to output from FCP as a blu-ray file or will toast convert it from my normal file. ( Normally I output a reference file and make a disc image using iDVD, which I then use to burn the DVD using toast.) Can you tell me if the quality is as good as burning to a blu-ray disc using a dedicated burner and finally one last question – when I make a normal DVD from 50i footage I never deinterlace and on a normal television there are no jaggies. However, never having made a disc to be played on a blu-ray player to be shown on a high def television set I don’t know how it will look if I do not deinterlace. Will I see jaggies if i do not or will it be smoothed out in the same way that a normal TV does.
I would do some tests myself if I had a blue ray player and high def TV but sadly I do not.
Many Thanks BRIANbrian paterson
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Beware this DVD can only be played with a BD-player (computer or standalone) and not all standalone BD players will play this DVD correctly.
BTW this is the Premiere Pro forum.
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According to what I know it will make a progressive disc from your interlaced footage. I let Toast do all the encoding and it seems to be as good a quality as a Bluray disc.
ronpesteshdvideo.com
Apple Certified Master Pro FCS 2
Sony EX-3
MacBook Pro
Dell M6600
Adobe CS6 Production Premium -
Thanks for all your help and apologies for posting in the wrong forum. OOps!
brian paterson
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