FCP5 – Workflow for HDV to DVD

[Dennis Lisonbee]

It appears to me you can render to DVD-HD compatable files (H264) from your HDV timeline. There is also a MPEG HD coded in compressor that I suspect has something to do with all this. I don’t have any HDV footage, but I just did it from a 720 24p HD timeline. DVD Studio Pro will author the H264 file created in compressor to an interactive DVD-HD project that will run on your Mac with Tiger and the new DVD player upgrade that came today. It’s too late for me to author it tonight, but tommorow I will be doing some testing and will post the results. Since the Blue-Ray burner is not on the market yet it will have to play on your computer.

Dennis Lisonbee

PS This new FCP Suite is the greatest buy I seen in years in this business. So much stuff it takes hours to install. (Yikes, a system crash would take forever to re-install.)

[Bob Carpenter]

Thanks Dennis,

I’m still a bit confused. What new player was announced today?

[Dennis Lisonbee]

If you have Tiger, the new player will be installed via “software update” Yes, you can edit HDV, export to h264 and author in DVD Studio 4, format and play on your mac using Version 4.6 DVD player in Tiger. I did it and it is a beautiful thing. The feature is worth the price of the upgrade to FCP Suite alone! Go to the DVD Studio Pro list for more info.

Dennis Lisonbee
Tiger
G5 Dual 2 gig
FCP Suite

[Tom Wolsky]

Can you get it onto a disc or any sort that will play on a set-top player?

All the best,

Tom

[George Loch]

It’s not compatible with anything other than OS X Tiger.

gl

[Dennis Lisonbee]

[Tom Wolsky] “Can you get it onto a disc or any sort that will play on a set-top player?
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Not yet. Desktop only. I suspect that Apple will be offering Blue Ray DVD in G5’s in the next 6 months. Perhaps less. There is a battle between Blu-ray and HD-DVD and standards. Typical technology war stuff. However the pictures are so stunning that everyone with a HD TV at home is going to want this new technology. I also suspect that they would like to have something out for the consumer by Christmas this year. The technology is all there, just typical standards issues. (Now I will need to buy new DVD’s.)

If someone knows more than this, I hope that they might give us a post here.

I had two Blu-Ray beta units from Sony. A SCSI and a Firewire unit. I was able to get them to play out DVCPRO HD 720 24p in realtime. I also authored an interactive DVCPRO HD 720 24p test presentation using Livestage Pro. It was very impressive. Unfortunately, I had to send the units back.

Look at this link https://www.blu-ray.com/

Dennis Lisonbee