Chris Babbitt
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Just don’t be surprised if your client’s Blu-Ray player will not play the disc. For instance, my Samsung 1400 will play BD-R discs that I have burned in Toast, but will not play Blu-Ray content that has been burned to DVD-Rs.
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Incidentally, if you don’t need audio, your XDCAM Quicktimes will play right out of Final Cut, but I haven’t been able to get audio. Only MPEG2 and MPEG4 (H.264) are officially supported in Quicktime.
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I have had the best result with MPEG-2 Transport Stream, encoded in Compressor.
Put the file on a USB pocket drive which plugs into the WD Player. The player connects to the monitor with an HDMI cable, and the interface is easy to negotiate. I would suggest demonstrating it for your client first, so that you a sure they know how to operate it, and know what it is supposed to look like. One word of caution: Make sure they do not leave the remote at home. The unit is inoperable without it. I learned that the hard way. -
I’m telling you, Greg, the WD player is the answer. I’ve personally used it to continuously loop HD programs all day long without a hiccup. It’s cheap, and there are no potential compatibility problems as there might be with a Blu-Ray player. That being said, the other area over which you may have no control is how the A/V people at the venue hook-up the equipment. Fortunately, at my last corporate event , I was able to check out the installation before our DVD was shown to a large important group of corporate heads. The A/V crew at the hotel, had hooked up the DVD player to a large plasma monitor using a composite video cable, the picture settings on the monitor were set to the wrong aspect ratio, and zoomed-in so that there were jaggies all over the place. On top of that, they used an ancient DVD player that kept hanging-up at a particular spot in the program. Had I not been able to check it out ahead of time, that’s the way it would have been shown, and I would have been blamed.
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Yeah, I demanded it after version 1.0., and here we are 10 years later. I guess I don’t have much clout over at Apple.
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Sorry Craig. It was an accident.
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I’ll second that, even at 720p. Good lighting is the answer. Also, instead of using the FCP keyer, I use the vKey2f Keyer. It’s an fxPlug and costs about $60-$70 as I recall.
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Yeah, I thought so. It sure would save a lot of time.
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My new 16-gig Ultra IIs say Class 2. I’ve seen them pictured both ways.
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Wow! That’s pretty interesting. Any idea how much longer it takes vs. using the transfer tool to convert to XDCAM .mov files?