Recommended setup for HD out of laptop to dual monitors for trade show?

[Walter Biscardi]

[Don Greening] “An in-depth article has just surfaced on the Ken Stone web site about how to author BD-R’s with FCP, Compressor and Encore. Might be worth a look: “

Actually that’s more or less a copy and paste right out of the Encore manual. Adobe says it works that easily too.

I can tell you the process does not work nearly as well as described in his article or in the Manual. And in the Encore forum here on the Cow, I’m obviously not alone.

Funny his Compressor settings are not what I would recommend for BluRay.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media
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[Don Greening]

[walter biscardi] “Funny his Compressor settings are not what I would recommend for BluRay. “

Perhaps the settings are lifted from the manual as well. Anyway, I just thought you’d be interested in having a look. I just glossed over the article myself, as my intention is still to wait for Apple to do something. Your business is quite different than mine in that some of your clients already want BluRay but very few of mine ask about it. We have a big corporate trade show coming up and I’ll be using my laptop with a connected LCD TV to show my Sony EX footage in HD.

– Don

[Walter Biscardi]

[Don Greening] “Anyway, I just thought you’d be interested in having a look. I just glossed over the article myself, as my intention is still to wait for Apple to do something. “

It will be nice if they, but honestly I would not be surprised if they don’t, or at least not for a while. The Adobe case is a good example of how difficult the BluRay authoring side is. The specs are so much harder to create than DVD. I’ve been contacted by numerous industry people who work at very large hollywood studios who have given me a lot of insight on the BluRay specs and why Encore doesn’t work.

In the meantime we’ve got our HP machine here now and by next week we should have DoStudio installed and be testing that out.

If you ever need any help with BluRay products for your trade shows or anything like that, feel free to give us a call. We’re already helping out some other Cow folks for that very thing. That type of stuff we can still create in Encore all day long, it’s the nice stuff with the menus that Encore falls apart.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media
HD and SD Production for Broadcast and Independent Productions.

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[Don Greening]

[walter biscardi] “In the meantime we’ve got our HP machine here now and by next week we should have DoStudio installed and be testing that out. “

Yeah, I’ve been following along on your PC adventure and I hope things work out for you on all fronts. Goodness knows that after all the Encore headaches it’s about time something worked right for you. Good luck with that.

Thanks for your kind offer of assistance but for the moment I’ll be content to just demo in HD and deliver in SD with the promise of keeping the HD versions on hard discs for awhile. Full res EX clips really don’t take up much more room than DV NTSC. Maybe 30 to 35% more space, which is nothing with today’s relatively inexpensive FW drives. I’m waiting for the updated XDCAM disk drive (PDW-U1), then I’ll just transfer everything to XDCAM disk.

– Don