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Uprezzed footage not suitable for blu-ray?
Hi,
I am just out of an odd meeting with a Blu-Ray replicator we may be about to use.
To cut a long story short, I was essentially told that a product we have recently authored to CMF blu-ray master, cannot be called blu-ray as it contains uprezzed/scaled SD footage. The apparently offending footage was processed via an MxO from digibeta to 1080i50 (dcvpro HD codec). The final master was encoded to 1080i50 MPEG2 @ 24MB and the authoring house had no issues using it to produce the CMF.
Now because of this footage, I am being told that we cannot replicate and call it blu-ray.
Does this sound right? Does everything on a blu-ray have to been shot or generated HD?
If this is true, it is certainly going to cause many issues going forward for us as much of our archive is SD.
Anyone experienced this?
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2 Replies
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It must be a branding thing. That the only way you can actually call the disk a BluRay disk is if all the footage on it is high definition or from film. Might be some rule that they came up with to stop people from just upconverting SD programming and throwing it on a BluRay disk and trying to sell it for more claiming that it is HD and BluRay. For example, I don’t think we’ll see BLAIR WITCH PROJECT on BluRay because it was shot with DV cameras and 16mm film. Maybe we won’t see 28 DAYS LATER either, as that was shot on DV too.
But there has to be some way to include shows that are a majority HD with some SD stock footage. Especially when it comes to documentary films. Gotta be some rules thing.
But can’t they just encode it and NOT call it BluRay? I don’t know…I’d ask them to elaborate on what the reasons are. I’m just guessing.
Shane
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IMO BR, is just a media format. If the movie is originally SD, it doesn´t changes nothing.
The quality will depends on the original file and the process (upscalling, compression) but will always be a BR.
I think.
Rafael
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