Eric Pautsch
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Yes….the first pass is the investigation pass to determine the best bitrate for your source. The second is the actual encode pass.
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Depends on what you mean by top of the line? There are other tools like scenarist which require you to know the DVD spec to author a disc. Most studio discs are authored with these systems. DVDSP is an abstraction layer tool which hides the mundane coding required.
DVDSP is more than good enough to author most titles but no tool will allow disc encryption in house – only set the flags which tells a replicator to apply CSS.
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Once a player re-boots or a disc is removed, all GPRMs are zeroed and certain SPRM are set back to their default settings. Never heard of a player saving values – that would be cool though.
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Interesting! Why not use V5 – its been available for a while now? How are you testing? You might get more replys here:
https://chrishatton.homeip.net/bdjforum/
When Chris goes on vacation, the site goes down – just so you know.
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I read it that way too but figured thats all part of the new licensing structure as well.
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Ha! This press release was announced today:
https://www.engadgethd.com/2009/02/25/cheaper-blu-ray-sony-panasonic-and-phillips-say-its-coming/
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It should be noted that one of Roxio/sonic’s bd authoring apps “dvditpro HD” does
support the CMF format defined by Sony for replication and it is certified.I’m still trying to find a replicator and some examples of this. Any titles for sale?
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David made the best point I think. FCP isn’t going anywhere and is hear to stay. FCP is what sells FCP – not BD authoring support.
Anyway, this discussion has been going on for over a year and a half now. I thought it was over when the CEO of Apple said there will be no BD support in Apple computers – I guess some people didn’t get the word. 🙂 I wish they had a good BD authoring tool to – but they dont!! Either stop supporting Apple or find other options…..
Its just a sensible business choice of Apple’s! It wouldn’t be called DVDSP with Blu Ray. It would have to be a completely different app. HD DVD was only folded into DVDSP since HD DVD(standard content)is almost identical to DVD. I agree with Walter that it would probably have to cost anywhere from 5-10K to re-coup the money put into design/testing and licensing – and that’s if they have orders lining up for miles. Of course this wouldn’t be the case since Blu Ray is such a small part of the digital delivery market. In such case your costs would double.
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Yes…thats exactly what I mean. With a “higher-end” encoders, it allows you to re-encode segments, not the entire stream. If clients are willing to spend that kind of cash, you can bet they will want certain sections re-done. on top of all that, cheap encoders just aren’t that good in comparison. You have very little control over bitrates and what not.
You can see the differences in an instant with streams done with Compressor/Procoder vs. a better encoder
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Yeah….I believe you can use those encoders. The only issue you might have is if a client doesn’t like a section and you need to go back re-do the whole thing. Our clients are always wanting re-encodes done so they wouldn’t be an option for me. Also the quality isn’t that great compared to a more high-end encoder. It all depends on your clients, needs and budget. Depending on your source material, a good MPEG 2 encode will look just as good as AVC. When you get into lower bitrates – different story.
Personally, Do Studio is the ONLY option independent authors to do Blu Ray.