andynick wrote:
... is the future in downloading?
Andy
"The Future" Is a relative term.
Obviously downloads will be the most attractive option once broadband is ubiquitous, affordable and much much faster. But as TomWheel and StudioX have pointed out that's not a reality at the present time and probably won't be for years to come. And 720 also seems to be the top end for the time being.
And even if a client is tooled up to deal with streaming or online delivery do I really want to be spending my time and bandwidth compressing AND up loading for hours or days. Nope.
So, yea, As things stand right now I think Blu-Ray is a perfectly viable option for delivering content. I don't know why anyone shooting 1080 would want to do otherwise. Vimeo is ok for short stuff that will be viewed on an iPad.
Whenever I'm forced to author DVD from my 1080 footage I feel like I'm going to throw up.
I'm still using the previous version of Compressor to author BD. And as far as I can see there are just a few minor tweaks that Apple could make that would satisfy the vast majority of folks wishing to author BD. Get rid of the numeric duration from the tittles, the ability to arrange chapter tittles graphically, export chapters directly from fcpX… etc.
But media content delivery is only one issue. My bigger beef is that Apple is abandoning optical media for software delivery and forcing the user base to download everything including OS and large "pro" apps that should be available on fixed media.
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