Blu-ray output

[Jeremy Garchow]

Adobe Encore will allow you to create a BluRay disk, yes. DVDSP will not. You can still edit in FCP and use Encore.

Jeremy

[Nate Stephens]

Jeremy,

I was told the other day that yes you can use a Blue Ray burner attached to the Mac to burn a HD Blue Ray disc using Toast 9,,, But you can not play a Blue ray movie back from the Blue Ray burner on the Mac… Is this true??

If so how do you proof your Blue Ray disc??

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Nate Stephens] “If so how do you proof your Blue Ray disc??”

A BluRay player.

[Nate Stephens]

Thanks Jeremy,,

You just confirmed my worst fears….. another unexpected 500 bucks added to my HD MacPro upgrade this summer……

Is there a favorite Blue Ray Player at a great price out there…. or are they all about the same?

[Chris Borjis]

[Nate Stephens] “Is there a favorite Blue Ray Player at a great price out there…. or are they all about the same?”

The PS3 is the best investment/performance right now.

It turns on and loads Blu-Ray or DVD discs just as fast as a dvd set top player, it upconverts standard dvds really well and its the only available profile 2.0 player.

It really does so much more than just video games.

[Walter Biscardi]

We’ve been using Encore since November and it does create BluRay discs very nicely so long as you’re not trying to create a custom menu. We’ve been going round and round with Adobe for about 2 months now on some very VERY basic programming issues.

We’ll create the exact same project as a regular DVD and everything works as programmed. We’ll switch the same project to BluRay and the button programming all go wacky. Or just create a straight up BluRay project and the buttons are wacky. I’ll have a much MUCH longer blog posting next few days or next week filling you in on all the details.

But it does work, we’ve already created 5 titles and are working on 5 more.

And for reviewing your discs, you’ll need a BluRay player with the latest updates. We own the Sony BDP-S1 which is one of the original units and I’m purchasing a new Samsung today that has the latest specs on it. You really want to test on multiple players if you can. We have 5 DVD players here for testing all our DVD titles now and you’d be amazed at the differences in them.

For the actual burner, we have the unit from fastmac. http://www.fastmac.com No issues.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media
HD and SD Production for Broadcast and Independent Productions.

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[David Roth weiss]

[walter biscardi] “We’ve been using Encore since November and it does create BluRay discs very nicely so long as you’re not trying to create a custom menu.”

Or, so long as you don’t need to replicate…

Cost aside, which is prohibitive, BluRay disks authored in Encore can only be duplicated (burned) at this point. Adobe acknowleges they cannot be replicated (stamped), and they have not divulged if that will change. It may or may not be important to everyone, but its a good thing for anyone making the foray into BluRay authoring to know about.

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles

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[Jeremy Garchow]

That’s a great thing to know. Thanks for that.

[Rafael Amador]

The Macs can not play Blu-ray disck just because there is not application available.
I can not play commercial BR discs from my LaCie, but I can play EX-1 from them in RT flawlessly.
With 18MB read/write you can even use a Re-writable BR disc as an external HD.
You can’t do that with the PS3:-)
Rafael

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[Walter Biscardi]

[David Roth Weiss] “Or, so long as you don’t need to replicate…”

You can create an ISO file to forward on to a commercial replication house for that.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media
HD and SD Production for Broadcast and Independent Productions.

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