Larry Applegate
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Here is a solution for an external connection. I have one and have hooked it to a Firmtek 2-drive enclosure, or I can change one of the cables to go to my older external Blu-ray burner.
https://eshop.macsales.com/item/Newer%20Technology/MPQXES2/
If you want to install it internally, just connect a Sata cable from one of the motherboard connectors to the drive. (The newer Mac Pro’s are already shipping with the optical bays connected).
https://eshop.macsales.com/item/Other%20World%20Computing/SATA10S/
If you want to install it externally, this is a good deal:
https://www.videoguys.com/Bundle/Pioneer+BDR-203+Mega+Bundle+with+External+Enclosure/59.aspx
You can just hook it up with USB, or you can use the external connector from the mother board.
Or you can get an external 4-way external enclosure from OWC and use firewire or whatever is available on any machine. (That’s what I have for my older burner).
Get a BDR203. That is also going to be my next purchase.
Regards,
Larry Applegate
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I’ve had my iMac 2.93 for almost 3 months, no problems. Mine is hot at top of the screen, the bottom is cool. I keep it up to date with OS X releases, currently 1.5.8. I don’t do heavy FCP editing, mostly programming and Blu-ray authoring and testing.
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Larry Applegate
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It’s interesting to compare the new 4-core to the refurbished 8-core at $100 difference. The new one has more memory, bigger drive, and newer model video card, which might take better advantage of Snow Leopard’s coming GPU advancements. (I bought my new 24″ iMac with that card for that reason). It also has SATA optical drive connectors (no more master/slave IDE jumpers!), in case you ever want to add a Blu-ray burner.
If I were in your shoes, I would go with the newer 4-core just because its the newer technology and they are probably a “push” today and might even be faster tomorrow.
I buy my new Macs from Oregon (PowerMax) because they have no tax and inexpensive shipping. And never buy more drives or memory from Apple, Other World Computing has great products and support at far less money.
Regards,
Larry Applegate
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FInal Cut 7 runs great on my iMac 24″ 2.93 GHz with the NVidia GT 120 graphics card.
The NVIdia GE Force 9400M integrated graphics card in the newer Macs is much faster than the integrated graphics on older Macs, and is 3D and Blu-ray capable. It’s a better graphics card than the original graphics card that shipped with my Mac Pro.
Regards,
Larry Applegate
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Hi Marc,
What I’ve seen so far is that Encore uses MPEG-2 to create still menus.My client used MPEG-2 entirely for his first replication, because he was not sure that AVC would be compliant for replication, and there was plenty of room on a single layer BD for a full-length movie with extras using MPEG-2.
His full project, and also the cut-down one he made for my testing, plays the first menu with the intro all the way through, then links to the 2nd menu, which follows the first, and plays seamlessly.
If you want to send me a sample, here is my mailing address. (The US mail does not deliver to my house).
Larry Appelgate
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Joe, I must apologize, I misinterpreted what was right in front of me. My example project plays the full menu all the way through, and then linked to the second menu thereafter. So I did not see what Marc was describing, and the additional space was probably worth it to avoid a possible pause.
Marc, if you could mail me your BDMV folder or a similar sample, I would be very interested in examining the navigation.
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Larry Applegate
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Hi Marc,
Actually if you did this, you might not notice the pause because the disc would not have to seek past the unwanted duplicate video.
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Larry Applegate
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I can confirm this is exactly what happens with Blu-ray.
Regards,
Larry Applegate
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Hi Joe,
BluStreak Premaster is currently a Blu-ray product only, and I apologize if I have been focusing on Blu-ray to the exclusion of DVD. Yes, even my Encore tests with DVD worked perfectly for stream selection. My main point should have been that relying on Encore method of issuing the setStream commands immediately imposes authoring restrictions, is more difficult for the author, and more subject to authoring or player playback error.
From my current tests, your work-around does not work for Blu-ray. I will investigate further and intend to post a definitive analysis on our web site when our tests are complete.
Regards,
Larry Applegate
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