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Max Kovalsky
May 13, 2009 at 12:02 pm in reply to: Best way to convert an authored NTSC DVD to PAL?

ProCoder will do a good job transcoding from NTSC to PAL if you’re in a crunch.
Max Kovalsky
May 12, 2009 at 5:47 pm in reply to: Best way to convert an authored NTSC DVD to PAL?

You can’t. Gotta reencode the video and resize the subs. That’s what I meant by saying “relink to new assets”.
Max Kovalsky
May 12, 2009 at 4:10 pm in reply to: Best way to convert an authored NTSC DVD to PAL?

We do dual format projects all the time. We’ll typically author NTSC, export the script out of Scenarist, hack the script to make it into PAL and import it into a new PAL project. One you have your PAL scenario, just relink to the PAL assets. This way there’s no need to reauthor and re-QC the programming.

Max
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Blu-ray producer
New York
Area4.tv
Max Kovalsky
April 12, 2009 at 1:59 pm in reply to: batch processing dvd material

There’s Scenarist Publisher, if your budget allows it:

https://www.sonic.com/products/Professional/scenaristpublisher/quicklook.aspx

Max
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Blu-ray producer
New York
Area4.tv
Max Kovalsky
March 29, 2009 at 1:10 am in reply to: Muxing with Streamclip because Toast does a poor job

BD H264 requirements are in the BD spec book, but you’re not likely to get a hold of it. You either have to outsource to specialized BD AVC encoder (Cinema Craft, Blu-code, Cinevision or Nexcode) or an encoder with “legal” presets like Inlet’s Fathom. You can also use X264 which is free and does a very good job. Do a search on how to configure it for BD.

Max
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Blu-ray producer
New York
Area4.tv
Max Kovalsky
March 27, 2009 at 6:25 pm in reply to: Muxing with Streamclip because Toast does a poor job

BD has very tight requirements for H264 (AVC) — it’s nothing like encoding an mpeg2. Chances are your streams are not up to spec and will not be muxable.

Max
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Blu-ray producer
New York
Area4.tv
Max Kovalsky
March 23, 2009 at 2:37 pm in reply to: question: worldwide formats and conversions

ProCoder is very good at standard conversions. Not that expensive but PC only.

Max
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Blu-ray producer
New York
Area4.tv
Max Kovalsky
March 12, 2009 at 3:41 pm in reply to: “Dude, where’s my Blu Ray?”

HD compression is still pretty tricky business. Even with 50-70K encoding systems, compressionist has to spend several days to tweak the encode after the base pass. There are dozens of settings that affect picture quality, while Encore or similar only gives you access to the bitrate.

Max
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Blu-ray producer
New York
Area4.tv
Max Kovalsky
March 11, 2009 at 2:43 pm in reply to: Multi Region Blue Ray Authoring.

Here are Blu-ray’s regions (although regioning will probably be the least of your concerns in authoring BDs).

A: East Asia (except Mainland China and Mongolia), Southeast Asia, the Americas.
B: Africa, Southwest Asia, Europe (except Russia), Oceania and their dependencies.
C: Central Asia, East Asia (Mainland China and Mongolia only), South Asia, central Eurasia and their dependencies.

Max
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Blu-ray producer
New York
Area4.tv
Max Kovalsky
March 6, 2009 at 1:02 am in reply to: Reverse Engineering Virtual Machine coding

DVD Reauthor

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