[Scott Dempsey]

Thanks for your input Shane… That makes sense. I always tell these people just to get digitized files at the same frame so it saves us all a few steps. Doesn’t always work out that way, and they don’t always have control.

Thanks again.

[Scott Dempsey]

Ok I have a question. Say I have an HDCAMSR tape, 4:4:4, obviously high quality… and yes I have the drives and dual fibre channels to handle that bandwidth… but my question is if I were making a blu-ray from this material, how should I load it? I would think full 4:4:4 uncompressed would be overkill right? I am thinking ProRes HQ….

[Scott Dempsey]

I do simple testing all the time with HD material to DVD-R, sometimes to BD-RE (so I don’t waste a BD-R). I always do it on a Lacie d2 Blue-ray burner. DVD-R play back fine as short blu-rays… I have done 10 minute tests as well as multiple trailers. It does work. Difference is I am using Toast 10 instead of Encore. I’m not at all saying Toast is better than Encore because I tend to lean the other way, but for this with clients who want short Blu-ray discs, this does work… Now getting chapters markers out of FCP is a whole other issue in Toast 10.

[Scott Dempsey]

Yup, that is what I am doing… When I open up the new project, I see the new sequence and the new media folder but yet there is still the clip that is over 2 hrs in duration. I have also tried highlighting everything in the timeline and then doing a batch capture, still when the batch capture window opens the time capture is over 2 hrs. I have clicked on and off every different configuration possible when creating the offline in Media Manager… no matter what I do I still have that 2 hour clip to digitize. Just seems pointless when I only need a few minutes of footage. And just to let you know. The full digi is a final cut of a film and the sequence is a trailer that was cut… Oh yeah and I’m on the latest version of FCP…