[Max Kovalsky]

Copy the folders onto your computer, and burn them with Toast. Set type of disc to DVD-ROM (UDF), go to disc>new disc, drag the TS folders into the toast window and burn.

Max
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Blu-ray author/producer
New York
Area4.tv

[Max Kovalsky]

DVDSP is just parsing the mpeg — no re-encoding or quality loss.

Max
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Blu-ray author/producer
New York
Area4.tv

[Max Kovalsky]

Ryan,

It varies widely from hundreds to over 10K, all depending on the project. If you want to discuss something specific, I’d be happy to get a quote for you. My email is max(at)area4.tv.

Max
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Blu-ray author/producer
New York
Area4.tv

[Max Kovalsky]

If you get it, it won’t be crippled. It will just come with a dongle/activator code combo that will expire in 30 days. We’re using MainConcept (same AVC encoding engine as CineVision) for now, and waiting for a reasonable hardware solution. One advantage of CineVision is noise/grain reduction, but the processing can take up to 2secs per frame, so I’m not sure how useful it is. We currently address grain/noise/gamma issues in a tape-to-tape DI environment.

Max
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Blu-ray author/producer
New York
Area4.tv

[Max Kovalsky]

I’m not sure many on this list will have much experience with a tool like CineVision. I’d advise to contact Sonic for support.

Max
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Blu-ray author/producer
New York
Area4.tv

[Max Kovalsky]

Sonic is pretty tough on evos. But even if you manage to get it, I’m not sure what kind of support they will provide you. Without support, I doubt you will be able to click your way through to a CMF. At any rate, there is a pretty steep learning curve on many aspects of BD production, not just authoring. There’s encoding, graphic design and prep, QC, player testing, AACS, etc. You would need a lot of available resources to complete your first project in 30 days. Once you have a couple of projects under your belt, the process should take you 6-10 days depending on how many tasks your co. can handle concurrently.

Max
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Blu-ray author/producer
New York
Area4.tv

[Max Kovalsky]

Strobing will get better if you do a standards conversion to 60i, but you’ll still notice it in pans and scrolling text.

Max
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Author
New York
Area4.tv

[Max Kovalsky]

Toast only burns data Blu-ray discs.

Sorry to be blunt, but I suspect that lack of proper OS is by far the least reason why you can’t use blu-print or scenarist.

Max
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Author
New York
Area4.tv

[Max Kovalsky]

See above…
Scenarist and Blu-print are the only options right now.

Max
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Author
New York
Area4.tv

[Max Kovalsky]

DVDit does not accept AVC (h264) streams – mpeg2 only.

If you have to replicate, the only systems that can output accordingly are Scenarist and Blu-print.

Max
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Author
New York
Area4.tv