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Blue Ray and FCP7
Here is another FCP7 Blue Ray question. I’ve read all the post and still need help.
I have a 56:40 DVCPRO HD project in FCP7. I need about 10 Blue Ray disks for presentations. Proper Blue Ray authoring and replication will be done later.
We would be using new off-the-shelf Blue Ray players. The same brand once we are sure it works on one player.
According to the recent threads I’ll use the FCP7 Share to create a Blue Ray. Add simple GFX and title in the Share menu.
Question: Will the output device be my optical device and do I use BD-R media?
I’m on a dual-quad MacPro.
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No Macs have Blu-Ray drives. You have to purchase and install either an internal or external drive.
Ernie Santella
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So I get a Blue Ray drive and use that with BD-R disks as my output. Seems simple enough. Any drive suggestions? I can either pull my second optical drive for an internal or use an external.
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Yes. Keep in mind that you still need a Blu-ray player and HD screen to monitor the results. I bought the Pioneer BR burner that is placed in a FW800 enclosure by OWC. Burned over 100 discs with it. Works great.
You can add title and still graphics to the templates that come with the FCS install. If you need more templates, please check out my website.
Kevin Monahan
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You might as well get your title “properly” encoded and authored now. I happen to be working on 2 titles this week – happy to take on a third 🙂
poweragemedia –at yahoo dot comm
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Should I trust the FCP7 share for Blue Ray or should I go with MPEG-2 in DVDSP4 and Toast 10? I can get toast 10 bundled with a LG Blue Ray at OWC. But if the FCP7 share works I wouldn’t need toast. Save $100. Have your tried the FCP7 share Blue Ray? Nice templets on your site.
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[William Campbell] “or should I go with MPEG-2 in DVDSP4 and Toast 10?”
DVD Studio Pro does not support BluRay.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
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My mistake. DVDSP only does a Mac readable HD.
So are my options for a low run of Blue Ray disks are:
1- MPEG-2 out of compressor and Toast 10
2- FCP7 share.Plus a Blue Ray drive and BD-R disks.
Is this correct?
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“My mistake. DVDSP only does a Mac readable HD.”
Not exactly true. You can burn HD-DVD’s in DVD SP that will playback in HD on the now extinct, consumer HD-DVD players that came out to compete with consumer Blu-Ray players. (I used them for trade shows for a little while)
Another playback source to consider is the WD Media Player. I use these for trade shows as well as client presentations. I give one to a client, so I can bring a USB flash drive to their office and playback their video in HD. They love that!
Here’s a thread on the topic.
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/8/1021711#1030817
Ernie Santella
Santella Productions Inc.
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I’ve been reading Cow posts for a while – I have just signed up and so this is my first post.
With regards to Blue Ray – I have had success in using FCP7 to export a single HD video file to blueray via an external BR burner from OCW.
Question: Is it still the case that the only way to get a decent blueray title screen with several files on one disc is to use FCP7 to create the HD files, Encore for BR authoring then toast to burn the discs?
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BTW William it is Blu-ray.. not Blue Ray – just a friendly correction.
Cause it wouldn’t be a cool format if they didn’t use a funky spelling!
😀
Liam Lawyer
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