Chris Babbitt
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I agree with you Walter, but it doesn’t get Apple off the hook, as far as I’m concerned. There is no reason why you can make and view a great Blu-Ray right out of Vegas, just by adding a burner, yet you can’t even play one on a Mac.
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So, why has this been available on the Windows platform for so long? Does Microsoft get a break on the licensing fees?
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We really need to team-up and flood Apple with requests. This is getting to be beyond ridiculous. It’s like there are no priorities at Apple anymore except the iPhone.
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Walter,
Can you encode an H.264 in Compressor that will work for Blu-ray? There is a preset -(HD DVD H.264). I tried bringing that into Toast, but it wants to re-encode it, so I assume it it’s no good, although it wants to re-encode my Blu-Ray MPEG-2 files as well.
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Chris,
I contacted Roxio Support, and this was their response:
“The default video settings for a Blu-ray Video project in Toast 10 are:
– Video: MPEG-4 AVC, 8.0 Mbps (16.0 Mbps max)
– Audio: Dolby Digital 192 kbpsIf you create a video file using these settings Toast will not re-encode the file. You can also change these video settings if you wish to use different settings (such as mpeg2).”
First-of-all, what is AVC? Is that the same as H.264?
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If your project is under an hour in length, there is no need to use “Best Quality” which is a 2-pass variable bit-rate. In this instance, you will save both time and quality by choosing “Fastest” and selecting “Single-Pass with a high constant bit-rate. I choose 7.5. This way, the entire piece is encoded at the highest bit-rate instead of dipping to a lower bit-rate for certain passages, and it takes about half the time.
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If all you need is simple one-offs for clients, check out Toast 9 or 10, along with the Roxio HD plug-in. With that you can do basic authoring with simple chapters, and even burn short HD projects to regular DVD-R media that will play in full HD on Blu-Ray players.
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If I have an XDCAM project that needs to go to SD-DVD now, but I want to archive the project for later Blu-Ray or other HD application, is there any benefit to exporting to Prores, or should I just export a self-contained native XDCAM Quicktime file?
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Greg,
If this were my client, here’s what I would do:
I would convince him to invest $100 in a Western Digital WDTV & a portable USB hard drive. That way, they can show it in full HD. The WDTV also allows them to loop the video. All you need to do is take your reference movie into Compressor and make an M2t file (Mp2-transport stream) and drop that onto the hard drive. I use this unit for trade shows myself. It’s a dream, and it will look 100x better than SD on that 50″ screen.
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He said it was an EX1 sequence. I believe he is only rendering to ProRes.