[Matt Townley]

For some reason I was thinking I would need to extract the VOB stream. My first thought was to just copy the VIDEO_TS folder and re-burn, but I thought that had to be way to easy.

When I re-burn in Toast, is there a difference in using the “DVD-ROM UDF” mode and the “VIDEO_TS Folders” mode?

[Matt Townley]

Leave it to me to complicate matters when the solution is so simple. 🙂

Thanks!

[Matt Townley]

Awesome. Glad you got it figured out!

[Matt Townley]

I create discs like this for clients all the time. You can do it using stories in DVDSP.

[Matt Townley]

I don’t shoot anymore, but a good friend of mine used to shoot with XL-A1’s and added a 5DMkII as an extra and within 2 months he was hardly using the A1’s anymore. I think he shoots almost exclusively with the MkIIs now. Here is a link to his site: https://studiomsv.com. He also has a bunch of stuff on Vimeo (https://www.vimeo.com/studiomsv/videos).

I agree with Mark that a lot of this depends on what you are shooting and your style. If you shoot long-form events, then a video DSLR probably won’t be for you. But if your style and your events are delivered as “film-like” pieces that are heavily edited, then a video DSLR may work fine. Both are great tools, just have to know what the job is you want it do do. That’s my 2c anyways.

[Matt Townley]

Hi Al, I’ve had the pleasure to work with Nick and a a number of other people from the Cow. We’re located outside of San Francisco, but do work for clients globally. Our primary business is duplication/replication and I would be happy to give you another quote or help answer any questions. Feel free to email me, matt (at) mstproductions.com.

Cheers!
Matt

[Matt Townley]

I’m not sure I would say Blu-ray is dead in the water all together, but I completely agree that corporate and commercial clients seem to continue to be slow to adopt or embrace it.

I think a lot of this has to do with the industry. Corporate clients are slower to adopt new technologies. They spend large amounts of money installing and standardizing equipment throughout their user base, so to update it all would be a significant expense and hassle. Heck, we still do a fair amount of VHS dubs for a few clients. And on top of that, a lot of large companies have very well established (and growing) Intranets that they now use to distribute content much more efficiently than on any type of optical media.

There are a lot of other factors that I hear when I talk to our clients, too; everything from compatibility concerns to “not wanting to appear excessive or spend-easy.”

I am also slowly seeing more people want a few copies on Blu-ray and then larger quantities for distribution on DVD.

Now that is all corporate and commercial, but on the entertainment side of our clients, people are significantly more interested and eager about Blu-ray. They were our early adopters and continue to be what pushes our Blu-ray sales.

I would be curious to hear if these trends are unique to us/our market or if others see the same things.

[Matt Townley]

Nick – I know this is a slightly old topic, but just saw this article on lifehacker and it made me think of this thread.

Not sure how much it would help for the dropping concern, but maybe for the getting lost part…..Anywho, I liked the clever thinking.

[Matt Townley]

I’m not sure about the authoring side of the equation, but from the disc publishing and printing side, a Rimage Producer 7100/8100 could handle everything you need. Their software, Production Server, has a set of developer APIs that you could use to integrate the output of whatever you come up with to author the disc. Once authored, it could autput a disc image and trigger an automated response from the Rimage software to burn the disc/s, and print whatever variable information it was told to print. You can even design artwork that has variable data fields that get merged with the info from the XML file for title, and sequence names and numbers.

I know Rimage has been making a push into the pro-video world trying to market automated P2 archive solutions, so if you contact them, they may be able to direct you to a VAR that has experience with this sort of configuration.

[Matt Townley]

What type of volume will you be printing? What type of quality and speed do you need? What type of printing are you doing? Is it mainly just light text/titles, etc. or is it full bleed and high density coverage? Do you want single disc feed or auto-printer? If auto-printer how much capacity do you need?

If you can give more detail, we can suggest some options.