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Scenarist – Application and Evaluation questions.
Curious about how many people have invested in Scenarist HDMV. What is your workflow and timeline on a simple feature with 1 or 2 static menus? How many days it takes you … the positives and negatives of the program.
Also, related … anyone know if the 30 day eval that Sonic offers can create replication ready masters (no crippling etc). If any of the people that I work with spend time on an eval session, we’re hoping the work produced isn’t in vain (whether or not we purchase the app).
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Sonic is pretty tough on evos. But even if you manage to get it, I’m not sure what kind of support they will provide you. Without support, I doubt you will be able to click your way through to a CMF. At any rate, there is a pretty steep learning curve on many aspects of BD production, not just authoring. There’s encoding, graphic design and prep, QC, player testing, AACS, etc. You would need a lot of available resources to complete your first project in 30 days. Once you have a couple of projects under your belt, the process should take you 6-10 days depending on how many tasks your co. can handle concurrently.
Max
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Blu-ray author/producer
New York
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Hi Max – thanks for the reply.
No problem on the gear, QC, design etc. We’re pretty deep into SD authoring and SD/HD broadcast + motion work. Resources (skill and equipment), we definitely have. The 6-10 day turnaround sounds about right … that’s what a reasonable SD project tends to take.
My big question is if the Eval version is uncrippled, able to get a replication ready CMF out. If I send someone on a project with the software, I want the end result to be usable whether we invest in sonic or not.
What kind of a setup are you running over there? Are you also using cinevision or have you opted for mainconcept or another 3rd party for encoding?
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If you get it, it won’t be crippled. It will just come with a dongle/activator code combo that will expire in 30 days. We’re using MainConcept (same AVC encoding engine as CineVision) for now, and waiting for a reasonable hardware solution. One advantage of CineVision is noise/grain reduction, but the processing can take up to 2secs per frame, so I’m not sure how useful it is. We currently address grain/noise/gamma issues in a tape-to-tape DI environment.
Max
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Blu-ray author/producer
New York
Area4.tv
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