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Quicktime with AC3 ?
I’m doing post for one hour long documentary, which was shot in HDV and we already have 5.1 channel AC3 soundtrack for DVD release.
Documentary will have its premiere in a movie theater that has digital cinema projector and we would like to show it in fullHD and surround sound.
Theater does not have blu-ray player and the producer does not want to buy all software and hardware to make and show blu-ray movie for just one premiere, so I’m gonna playback documentary out of my MacPro.
What would be the best way to make and playback a file with HD picture and AC3 sound?
I also have discrete uncompressed sound tracks, so if I make a quicktime movie with these, can MacPro encode them on the fly to AC3 to stream out through optical output? -
5 Replies
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Hi Toke,
I know nothing about HD projectors (IN, OUTs, etc) so just to say something. If the projector has HDMI, I would play the HD master from the MacPro through my AJA ioHD.Mac OX 10.5.2-FC 6.02-QT 7.4.1
G5 2x2Gh 4GbRAM-BlackMagic Extreme
PMBP 17″Core2Duo 4GbRAM-AJA ioHD
JVC DTV-17″
SONY EX-1 . SONY PD170
..and always a big mess on top of the table. -
BTW, Quicktime 7.4.5 breaks AC3 playback, specifically using the Perian 1.1 plugin. Stay with Quicktime 7.4.1.
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But again can you connect your optical out to movie theater audiosystem? I would gues no!
Cal to theater and talk with them. -
Check out the VLC player.
Sean
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Well, you guess wrong.
Been there, done that.
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