Jim Watt
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Thanks for the clarification John. I normally edit my 59.94 Varicam material on a 29.97/1080i timeline converting to 1080i in the deck when I digitize, so for me wouldn’t it be the same? We’ve been doing this since the Varicam came out and it seems to wok?
Actually I also do this with my 24P & 30P video too, though we seldom shoot at anything other than 59.94.
thx..jw
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I’m using surround sound AC3 and the default bitrate in DVDSP for H264 HD DVD.
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Basically 59.94 and 29.97 are the same frame rates. 59.94 is used when referencing 720P and 29.97 is used when referencing 1080 interlaced. At least that’s my understanding. We go between the two on a timeline with no issues.
jw
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For now we use a small car inverter.
jw
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The three titles we’ve produced, we market on our own website. “Discoveries…America Music, Sunrise/Sunset”, “Discoveries…America Music, New England” and “Discoveries…Argentina, Patagonia”. We’ve sold several hundred and have had no complaints.
Not sure what you mean that the discs produced in DVDSP don’t “meet the spec”. they work, they’re HD and they play as HD in HD DVD decks. We also sell several thousand duplicated SD DVD ‘s each year and also have no returns from them either. Of course we also sell 10’s of thousands of replicated DVD’s from DVDR masters too, but seldom get any of them back either.
Basically if it looks like a duck, quacks, swims and flys like a duck…is it a duck or a ???
jw
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We’ve had excellent luck authoring HD DVD’s in DVDSP using a 720P master and the H264 codec in compressor. We get an hour program on a DVD 5 with enough room left over for a motion menu at the beginning. We’re doing them for distribution, replicating in a 7 burner tower.
This tower is not hooked up to a computer. Our Rimage, that is hooked up to a PC won’t recognize the master.
Quality is awesome and I agree with Walter once you burn Hd or Blu Ray DVD’s you don’t want to go back.
jw
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It’s my understanding that in addition to the “Pro” license you must pay google a license fee of $250 and also have approved usage license from them and I believe I read that it couldn’t be used for commercials and that you must under any circumstance have their logo on the shots.
jw
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One would hope that the TSA can come up with a solution, but it’s not likely anything will change in the near future. Also regarding the power tool batteries and explosion. From what I’ve read, explosion is not the problem it’s the high temperatures in a lithium fire that causes the concern.
jw
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Just received this email from our sales rep at Abel Cine
Jim-
Thanks for the call. Here is what we came up with.
Each of the Sony BP-U60
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Thanks, but what I asked is how much lithium there is in these batteries so that when a TSA person asks, then I can tell them.
The new lithium rules website gives an estimate of 8 grams of Lithium in a 100 watt hr battery, so if I knew the watt hr rating of the BP-U60 I could make a reasonable estimate.
thx…jw