[Daniel Low]

I could be wrong, but I don’t think that XDCAM is supported on Windows without additional hardware being installed, such as Matrox Axio kit.

Final Cut Pro supports it through Quicktime.

It’s a London thing.

[Daniel Low]

eric,

Agreed, what you quote maybe slightly misleading but a visit to the Apple site (something that anybody would do before forking out for such an expensive package) and you’ll see:

“With DVD Studio Pro 4, you can harness the power of H.264

[Daniel Low]

eric,

Can you point me to the page or article or infact anything that Apple has published which gives (you) this wrong impression?

Danny

[Daniel Low]

Thanks Jim,

All your points are totally valid and I agree with all of them but ziongms post asks “……that will need to be output to either HD DVD or Blue Ray. Im using a intel based MacPro, and was curious if anyone knew of a hddvd or blueray burner that would work well with that machine. Any help/tips would be a great help. Thanks! ”

eric respond to that post with the blunt reply that “There are no Mac authoring programs which support HD DVD or Blu Ray drives at this point”

Now I know that Toast is not an authoring application in the same way as DVDSP is, but I was simply helping the guy out by stating that there is support for the Mac in terms of both hardware and software if he just wants to “output to Blue Ray” This, in my opinion, is far more helpful than the post from eric and although your response is educational it doesn’t answer ziongms post, but simply tells him that the state of play is still ‘up in the air’ right now.

Would you not agree?

Thanks

Danny

It’s a London thing.

[Daniel Low]

Actually there are, one of the best value is Toast from Roxio:
https://www.roxio.com/eng/products/toast/titanium/overview.html

As for a burner, it’s still early days and prices are still quite high but you could look at:
https://www.mcetech.com/blu-ray/

Logitec also do one.

It’s a London thing.

[Daniel Low]

It maybe safe to put the board back in but it sounds like it’s causing problems and needs to be swapped, does it work ok, was it properly seated in the slot (you need to push it in pretty hard)

If you don’t own an Epson printer then you can do one of two things: Trash the respective Epson Folder, or do nothing. There is no damage that that one file can cause to the system unless you try and use it, and obviously those printer folders are taking up room on your drive…..

As for Mactracker, trash it.

[Daniel Low]

Nope – unless you can compile the source code there’s no way of having this CODEC pop up into Quicktime, AFAIK. – (Time to make friends with a friendly, talented developer!)

[Daniel Low]

It’s a bug, expect it to be fixed when Leopard is released.

[Daniel Low]

From the lafcpug

If your issue is one of a squashed image…

It is most likely because you have an 16:9 FHA (Full Height Anamorphic) movie file.

This means that a 16:9 widescreen video has been recorded onto a 4:3 format in order to be transmitted via broadcast or played on DVD (or other formats that support anamorphic widescreen)

You can adjust the display aspect ratio (scaled video settings) for output from Quicktime as long as you have Quicktime Pro registered either temporarily or permanently.

[Daniel Low]

Ben,

Messing around with registry settings is hardly the sort of thing a casual user of encoding tools is likely to want to do, especially a Mac user.
Having said that, why should anybody have mess with the registry, manually or with the help of a ‘Powertoy’ to adjust settings that should be made available directly in the GUI of WME.
You even state in your book that “Windows Media Encoder requires you to jump through a lot of hoops to use custom settings”
I would have thought that as the senior program manager (for core media processing technologies) at Microsoft, you would have done something about this.

Danny