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Blue Ray
Is it true that you can not burn a blue ray disc using DVDSP? I have never tried it, I don’t even have a blue ray burner. I was just wondering if thats true and if so, than how could you burn a blue ray disc after building your movie in FCP. Thank You.
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[Steve Tamou] “Is it true that you can not burn a blue ray disc using DVDSP?”
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[Steve Tamou] “I was just wondering if thats true and if so, than how could you burn a blue ray disc after building your movie in FCP. Thank You. “
With Studio 3 you have some BluRay functionality in the new Compressor.
With Studio 2 you will require something like Adobe Encore (I wouldn’t), Roxio Toast or other.
If you want pro features, then you an use DoStudio from NetBlender which is what we use.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
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Thank You Sir.
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If you have the FCS3 upgrade (so have FCP7) you can now bypass DVDSP for simple Blu Ray creation – just click on ‘Share’ on the file menu select the pretty obvious options for Blu-Ray. If you have a player that can play AVCHD disks, you can even burn them using good old DVD-Rs (although the bitrate is lower). In theory a PS3 can play these, although I’ve yet to test it with FCP generated discs.
I’ve been using an internal Blu-Ray drive and an external burner for over a year now and had no problems before using Toast (and some limited success with huge issues using Encore) and it all worked fine on a Mac, contrary to all the whingeing about Macs and Blu Ray.
Now it’s even simpler.
One caveat – always check the client’s player can play your burnt disks. Not all will have the correct hardware or firmware (think DVD-R a few years ago). If you need total compatability you will have to consider a more pro setup, as Walter suggests. For client or personal approval, the above works fine.
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[Ben Holmes] “One caveat – always check the client’s player can play your burnt disks. Not all will have the correct hardware or firmware (think DVD-R a few years ago). If you need total compatability you will have to consider a more pro setup, as Walter suggests. For client or personal approval, the above works fine. “
Actually pretty much every BluRay player can now play BD-R discs so long as they have run the latest firmware off the websites of the manufacturers. In fact, pretty much all new ones play them out of the box these days. I have a link buried somewhere in my blog on a central website to check for updates.
But yes, do check with the client and even send them a disc in advance as a test.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Editor, Colorist, Director, Writer, Consultant, Author.
Credits include multiple Emmy, Telly, Aurora and Peabody Awards.
Owner, Biscardi Creative Media featuring HD Post
Biscardi Creative MediaCreative Cow Forum Host:
Apple Final Cut Pro, Apple Motion, Apple Color, AJA Kona, Business & Marketing, Maxx Digital. -
Hi Walter,
I have a screening of an intro to a documentary I am working on in a few days in LA. I have just found out that there will be a BluRay player at the event. My project was shot on Sony PMW-EX1, and my sequence is 1920 x 1080. I would like to burn it in as high quality as possible and still have it play.
It seems, from your post above, that you can now compress for BluRay in Compressor. By “new” Compressor, do you mean beyond 3.0.5? That is what I currently have, and I am not able to find any BluRay options.
Thank you so much for your kind information.
Best,
Suzan Beraza -
[Suzan Beraza] “It seems, from your post above, that you can now compress for BluRay in Compressor. By “new” Compressor, do you mean beyond 3.0.5? That is what I currently have, and I am not able to find any BluRay options. “
Compressor 3.5 can create the appropriate MPEG-2 files and burn a BluRay disc.
Versions prior to 3.5 can make the MPEG-2 and AC-3 audio files for BluRay, but you need to author the disc with another tool. This is what we have been doing for 2 years now. Compress the video / audio files in Compressor and then take them to an authoring tool to author / burn them to disc.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Editor, Colorist, Director, Writer, Consultant, Author.
Credits include multiple Emmy, Telly, Aurora and Peabody Awards.
Owner, Biscardi Creative Media featuring HD Post
Biscardi Creative MediaCreative Cow Forum Host:
Apple Final Cut Pro, Apple Motion, Apple Color, AJA Kona, Business & Marketing, Maxx Digital. -
FYI, Sonic now has a competitively priced Blu-ray solution. It runs on Windows like DoStudio. https://www.sonic.com/products/Professional/BDPowerStation/quicklook.aspx
John
MacPro 8-core 2.8GHz 8 GB RAM OS 10.5.5 QT7.5.5 Kona 3 Dual Cinema 23 ATI Radeon HD 3870, 24″ TV-Logic Monitor, ATTO ExpressSAS R380 RAID Adapter, PDE enclosure with 8-drive 6TB RAID 5
FCS 2 (FCP 6.0.5, Comp 3.0.5, DVDSP 4.2.1, Color 1.0.3)Pro Tools HD w SYNC IO, Yamaha DM1000, Millennia Media HV-3C, Neumann U87, Schoeps Mk41 mics, Genelec Monitors, PrimaLT ISDN
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Unfortunately, there’s no pop-up menu capabilities in the new Sonic system. No AVC encoding either. The encoder is very bare bones. Typical for Sonic Solutions…they then charge you up the “you know what” for the options that make sense the most. Plus have you ever had to deal with Sonic support? Ugghh!!!
Sonic makes great high end tool and thats about it!
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Thanks for your insight, Eric. That’s very good to know.
John
MacPro 8-core 2.8GHz 8 GB RAM OS 10.5.5 QT7.5.5 Kona 3 Dual Cinema 23 ATI Radeon HD 3870, 24″ TV-Logic Monitor, ATTO ExpressSAS R380 RAID Adapter, PDE enclosure with 8-drive 6TB RAID 5
FCS 2 (FCP 6.0.5, Comp 3.0.5, DVDSP 4.2.1, Color 1.0.3)Pro Tools HD w SYNC IO, Yamaha DM1000, Millennia Media HV-3C, Neumann U87, Schoeps Mk41 mics, Genelec Monitors, PrimaLT ISDN
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