New bluray project

[Michael Slowe]

How do propose to play your Blu-Ray DVD’s, I am told that the Sony players will only play studio features and specially licensed material?

Michael Slowe

[Rafael Amador]

Hi Alan,
I think that Blueray supports only Progressive footage so 1080p25 would be the way.
If in the end you don’t want your SD DVD looks progressive, you can use the Re_Vision Re-Interlacer and will look like shoot in 625i50.

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[Dave Jenkins]

Can’t say about the 1080P, but we are authoring Blu-ray from our XDAMHD 330 with 1080i and it looks great! We have tested the playback in the Sony 300, 500 and the PS3 and the BD-R and BD-RW all play.

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[Alan Lacey]

Hi Michael,

As that’s a year or so away yet, I’ve not given it much thought. Now that Bluray’s the HD DVD format of the future, I assumed that suitable players will be available by then.

Walter Biscardi and others over in the FCP forum are authoring in Encore and so presumably finding players for their material in the US.

I’m just trying to minimize my problems downstream by choosing the best format to shoot in at the moment.

Thanks Alan

[Rafael Amador]

hi Alan,
As David says he is playing 1080i without problem. I guess that the BR players can play every format and all the HD screens are multi-scan so shouldn’t be no problem. What I said about that BR only supports 1080p (180p30 to be precise) it may refers to commercial disks.
Whatever the format you choose, editing will be quite easy in FC. At the moment I’m working with a Laptop. Is OK because what I’m doing is basically cutting and Color. To make multi-layers and “deep-rendering” more CPU and Graphic card are required. EX-1 footage is light but really big.

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[Alan Lacey]

Thanks Guys,

But I’m a bit concered, Rafeal, that BR will only support 1080p and not i.

If that’s true then it looks like I’ve no option but to shoot 1080p25

Alan

[Noah Kadner]

Blu-Ray burners from Pioneer and authoring software- like Adobe Encore are available right now. I’d highly recommend getting them and running some end to end tests before you commit to a format. It could get quite expensive down the road if you end up shoot a less than optimal Blu-Ray format.

Noah

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[Michael Slowe]

Yes Alan but I’m being told that Sony are being ‘dog in the manger’ by restricting their players to only play the big commercial discs to prevent people burning their own copies. True or false? Can’t get the difinitive answer.

Michael Slowe

[Jason Prisk]

Alan,

Haven’t tried it specifically on a Sony player, but 1080i looks great on Bluray. We use the Samsung P1200 for display (trade shows, etc.). Use Encore for encoding, at least until the Apple engineers get back from their iPhone tour of duty and can get us Bluray capability in Studio Pro. Everything works great.

Jason

[Rafael Amador]

Hi Alan,
I’ve been reading few threads, and seems that you can put 720/1080/p/1.
1080p30 will probably be for 35mm films to BR.
If I would need to start to shoot now without knowing if the final movie will be “i” or “p”, I think I would shoot 1080i. I would prefer de-interlace all the footage better than re-interlace it.

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SONY EX-1 . SONY PD170
..and always a big mess on top of the table.