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Converting Blu-Ray Disc to DVD
I’ve had a request to make a SD-DVD from a Blue-Ray Disc. What I would probably need to do is convert the BDMV folder back to an Mpeg2 and then run that through Compressor. Is that possible?
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What are they smokin’ in OC? This is a very odd request. Are they looking for an SD version of their HD project? If this is the case, drop your QT Movie in Compressor and create an M2v file. BDMV to an MPEG 2 if even possible, would not make a good looking image.
Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
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No, no , no. Now, pay attention, Steve:
My client has a short demo on a blu-ray disc. That’s all she has. No HD file, just a blu-ray disc. She wants to send this out on DVD, so that anyone can play it. It’s not an unusual request at all. I’m getting this more and more.
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What are the output options on the back of the Blu-ray player? I’d pull a composite signal directly into a DVD recorder.
Or do it the old fashioned way: plug your Blu-ray into your TV, turn out the lights, shoot your HD TV set. Capture the audio on a separate pass directly from the Blur-ray, marry them in FCP.bogiesan
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While maybe not an unusual request, it is impossible to do. As I am sure you are aware, Blu-ray can only play on Blu-ray players. They will need a separate SD version made using an m2v file.
Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
Board of Directors
Chicago Final Cut Pro Users Group -
Since there are programs, such as MPeg Streamclip that will convert a Video_TS folder back to a Quicktime file, I thought that something might exist that will do the same with a BDMV folder. I was under the impression that Blu-Ray players do not downconvert, so the SD analog outputs will only output signals from standard DVDs. Is that not correct?
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BluRay players will downconvert from my experience. If you run the SD signal to a regular TV, it will play the BluRay disc on a regular TV. At least that’s how I believe it’s supposed to work, honestly have not tried this with our Samsung 1500 players.
What I would do here is simply patch the BluRay player to my AJA Kona 3, let the Kona 3 downconvert the signal to SD during ingest, then just run that clip through Compressor and DVD Studio Pro to make an authored DVD.
If all they want is a Play Only DVD, then I would just throw the Kona into Input Pass-Through Mode and route it directly to the DVD Recorder and do this in one pass.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media
HD and SD Production for Broadcast and Independent Productions.STOP STARING AND START GRADING WITH APPLE COLOR Apple Color Training DVD available now!
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OK. I’ll give it a shot. Thanks Walter.
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The blu-ray to capture card thingy probably won’t work. Just open the .mt2s files in Mpeg Streamclip and convert away. (be sure to select “all files” upon import so the .mt2s files aren’t greyed out)
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[John Kaley] “The blu-ray to capture card thingy probably won’t work.”
If it didn’t work I wouldn’t suggest it. We’ve already done this multiple times here as we’ve been producing blu-ray discs almost 2 years now.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media
HD and SD Production for Broadcast and Independent Productions.STOP STARING AND START GRADING WITH APPLE COLOR Apple Color Training DVD available now!
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There are several free tools to do this. A good place to go and look for tutorials is videohelp.com:
https://www.videohelp.com/guides/how-to-convert-bluray-s-with-hdconverttox-id1122#1122
but like someone said just convert those transport streams ( .mts ) to mpeg 2
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