DVD studio pro

[Peter Wiley]

I got a call the other day, as I sometimes do, form the board chair of a local arts organization who wanted to get a DVD made of an upcoming concert as a fund raiser. The local high schools now routinely get DVDs made of their musicals each year. What happens to these projects in a post-DVD world? Parents and grandparents like tangible products.

The irony is that FCP X is aimed at producers doing this kind of small- scale local work.

[Andrew Richards]

[Peter Wiley] “The local high schools now routinely get DVDs made of their musicals each year. What happens to these projects in a post-DVD world? Parents and grandparents like tangible products. “

Just to play devil’s advocate a little, do these high school plays get delivered on richly authored DVDs with deep custom menu structures and lots of DVD “extras”? Or are they pretty much pop’n’play discs that at most have a single menu with a “play” button?

Best,
Andy

[Craig Seeman]

[Greg Andonian] “Ah, yes, I forgot about NTFS. Of course, since you can’t write to it in OSX, you would have to boot into Windows to copy the video onto it, which will add time to the process…”

There’s a free and inexpensive utilities for writing
https://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/23729/macfuse

https://www.tuxera.com/products/tuxera-ntfs-for-mac/
Lion version not yet on MacUpdate
https://www.tuxera.com/mac/macfuse/MacFUSE-Tuxera-2.2.dmg

https://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/33603/sl-ntfs

https://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/26288/ntfs-for-mac-os-x

The “public” only needs to read of course which is already built in. Only content creators need to write.

[John Pale]

While still in the devils advocate mode, I think apple learned the majority of FCP users were making client approval DVD’s, which can be done without DVDSP.

One reason DVDSP has not been updated is that there is not much more that can be done with it. It basically does everything in the DVD spec already. Their choice was either make a BluRay authoring program or EOL the product. They already decided against BluRay as they don’t see it being profitable enough for them.

[Craig Seeman]

And to add to the devil’s work. . .
While iDVD is not available in the App Store, it’s still part of the box set available in the Apple Online Store and as recently as a few weeks ago, software update had a maintenance update for it (along with iWeb). So it would even as EOL, the life of iDVD is being extended by Apple event though development has stopped.

I suspect iDVD fits the needs of the “school” delivery market. Blu-ray screeners are fine for most clients. The market for “Hollywood” level Blu-ray interactivity/complexity is very small and that market is under heavy assault by Netflix, iTunes, maybe Hulu to an extent although that’s more TV viewing.

[Steve Connor]

I switched to Adobe Encore for DVD and Blu-ray authoring a while and have found it to be a great replacement for DVDSP, it wasn’t difficult to learn either.

Steve Connor
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[Thomas Frank]

Nope but they for sure have USB in the Computers!

Optical Disc will dead when the day comes that every income has a high speed Internet access!
So it does looks pretty good for the optical disc for good while. 😉
Besides Blu-Ray beats the iss out of Apples wanna be HD iTunes movies. 😮

[Jerry Alto]

John- My opinion is it goes beyond Apple making enough profit. I think Apple’s modus operandi is to COLLECT royalties not PAY them.

MacPro 2.93 Quad
FCP7
Sony Z-1
GV-HD700

[Gary Pollard]

Apple tends to be a few steps ahead … except where they haven’t caught up yet or offer limited feature sets.

And where they haven’t caught up, die hard Apple worshippers tell you:

“That’s what’s good about Apple. They don’t introduce a feature until they can do it properly.”

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“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it”

[Jim]

Interestingly, I’m starting to get request from my clients for BluRay.(small events where a big AV build would be impractical and kiosks)
I’ve switched over to Adobe Encore and it works just great, and building menu pages in PS is easy and straight forward.
There seems to be life after FCP.

Cheers,

Jim