Rob Chinn
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zrb,
The menus I created worked just fine. I just used a couple of the templates that Apple includes in DVDSP 4.
I think you are correct that it may not be able to use the full functionality of the HD DVD spec, but I’m not postitive that all the players support it yet either. I know there was a story out last week that said the current Blu-ray players don’t support the full interactivity spec.
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Alfred,
Walter answered the “Yes” part for you. I’m not sure yet how much you can squeeze on there. It’s going to depend on the amount of compression you use. Compressor currently has 3 presets for encoding for HD DVD – 2 of them are H.264 based, while the other is MPEG-2 based, they are all at different bitrates.
I created a HD DVD a couple weeks ago to try it out. I just used a minute of footage, but everything worked great. I made one disc for 1080, and one for 720. Both ended up looking great on the 52″ Samsung 1080p LCD we were testing them on. I will tell you not to bother using the H.264, 6.75 Mbps encoder though – it was junk. I’m planning to do more tests soon using a dual layer DVD-R disc, which should allow you to get more content, but I’m not positive if the HD DVD players will support it yet – hence the reason I’m testing.
As for your question about having a control port for syncing – I doubt they do. I didn’t specifically check, but I would be willing to bet they don’t.
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Dave,
If they are asking for HD DVD, rather than Blu-ray, you can do that now in DVD Studio Pro, by burning to a regular DVD-R disc. It will play fine on a HD DVD player. If you need Blu-ray though, then you’re stuck with Toast for the time being.
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Kevin – You are ight on about the video looping. Hopefully someone at Apple is listening, as I’ve already mentioned this to a few of them. I would have already bought 2 for clients, but without the looping, it is a no-go for tradeshow and in-store video.
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Eben,
You definitely need to update to FCP 5.0.4. You”ll then have a Panasonic P2 selection under File > Import. From that you can select where the location of the files from the card are.
Be sure when you dump the card to a hard drive to copy the WHOLE card, not just part or the file you think you need.
I’ve been copying the entire card over then then renaming it once it is on the hard drive.