Q: Out put to Blu-Ray?
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Mar 11, 2014 1:51 PMby Meg The Dog,HelpfulLawrenceFerr01 wrote:
I am finally ready to out put my 80 min. documentary to DVD for selling at film festivals.
Do I go with Blue_Ray?
Each Film Festival will have unique submission technical specifications.
LawrenceFerr01 wrote:
If I do with the cheeper DVD will it be in HD?
No, DVDs are Standard Definition.
LawrenceFerr01 wrote:
Do people without a Blu-Ray player get the benefit of a Blu-Ray disc?
No, you need to have the correct player to play back a Blu-Ray Disc. If the machine does not support Blu-Ray, the disc will not be able to be viewed.
MtD
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Mar 11, 2014 1:55 PMby RatVega™,LawrenceFerr01 wrote:
I am finally ready to out put my 80 min. documentary to DVD for selling at film festivals.
Do I go with Blue_Ray?
It's your circus, you can have as many clowns as you like...
If I do with the cheeper DVD will it be in HD?
No, all DVDs are standard definition, no matter who produces them.
Do people without a Blu-Ray player get the benefit of a Blu-Ray disc?
No. they need a Blu-ray player.
if you control the presentation, present it in full resolution with a MacBook.
If you want general playability, go DVD. Otherwise, you may as well go web release. Blu-ray will not replace DVD...
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Mar 14, 2014 11:07 AMby LawrenceFerr01,Thanks everyone.
I realize that I have to provide the festival with what they require. So, that will dictate exhibitiuon.
But, I wish to sell this documentary at festivals to individueals. Or maybe ship them out via postal mail for those who perfer that.
If I go wiith DVD will I lose all of the benefits of shooting HD?
Seems not many people have Blu-Ray so it seems a waste to spend double on that format.
Thanks
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Mar 14, 2014 12:15 PMby Meg The Dog,HelpfulForget the whole physical media mess, use Vimeo on Demand to sell your movie:
info how to sell here:
https://vimeo.com/creatorservices/ondemand
MtD
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Mar 14, 2014 12:24 PMby RatVega™,If you want a take-away product, DVD is the way to go, both in terms of cost and playability.
A product shot and cut in HD then down-converted for DVD loses pixels, no question of that. But so did Cameron's Avatar and it looks fine...
If you really want to "go the extra mile, step up for the CCCE-SP3 MPEG-2 Encoder from Cinema Craft. It is a software version of the 9-pass hardware encoder that all the major studios used to use.
You're right that Blu-ray is not taking over, and it requires additional expensive software and still may not be able to make a fully compliant disc without going out of house.
Good luck
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Mar 19, 2014 5:46 PMby LawrenceFerr01,Thanks everyone for your help.
Matt: I will go with Vimeo, but at festivals I feel that if I have a product on the spot, in person they will more likely purchase rather than tell them to go home and visit the website.
Disc Makers requires me to supply them with the file in TS format. Not sure how to do that in FCP Studio 2.
Any suggestions?
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Mar 20, 2014 1:23 PMby RatVega™,When you do a Build in DVDSP, you are creating a disk Image of your DVD. It follows standard format for all DVDs: VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS folders that contain all the compiled (playable) files for your DVD. The AUDIO_TS folder is frequently empty so don't fret about that.
CAUTION: ALL VIDEO_TS files use the same structure and naming format, so they are indistinguishable once they are taken out of the uniquely named folder you created for the Build. I would send your uniquely named Build folder (with the VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS folders inside) to Disc Makers; they will know what you did and why.
hope this helps
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Mar 20, 2014 7:32 PMby LawrenceFerr01,In DVDSP I can only import the files that I compressed in Compressor.
From FCP I exported to Compressor, using the DVD-90 min Best setting.
That gives me an MPEG2 file and an audio file.
I do not know how to get the VIDEO_TS files you mentioned. I just followed the above steps.
Is the MPEG2 file the same as VIDEO-TS?
This is driving me crazy!
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Mar 21, 2014 8:34 AMby RatVega™,Excerpts from the DVDSP User Manual:
Building the Project
Once you have set the prebuild disc properties, you can build your project. Depending on the size of your project and the speed of your computer and disk drives, this process can take several hours to finish.
To build your project:
Do one of the following:
• ClickBuild in the toolbar.
• Press Option-Command-C.
Select the drive and folder to build to in the dialog that appears, then click Open.
The build process begins and a progress bar appears that shows the element names currently being compiled. If the selected folder already has a folder of the same type it is generating (VIDEO_TS or HVDVD_TS), see “Incremental Builds” for details on the dialog that appears.
The Build Files for SD Projects
Once the build for your SD project starts, DVD Studio Pro creates two folders at the location you specified: an AUDIO_TS folder and a VIDEO_TS folder. Additionally, a third folder, JACKET_P, is created if you have assigned a jacket picture graphic.
The AUDIO_TS folder is used by systems authoring DVD-Audio titles. To meet the DVD specification requirements, DVD Studio Pro creates the folder and leaves it empty. The empty folder is included in the format process.
This is NOT rocket science... It is simple and relatively fast. If you have a Mac that was built in the last decade it will take less than an hour for an 80-minute show.
good luck
