Blue Ray Support in DVD Studio Pro

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Blue Ray Support in DVD Studio Pro

I have been shooting in HDV since Spetember 2005. I have been printing to Tape from FCP and viewing them with great results from my HDV deck on tape. My Clients don't want to buy the HDV deck , they want a Blue Ray DVD player with my product on it, in HD. I remember all the adds that FCP put out stating that they support HDV. So why am I having this problem. Is there a third party product that I can turn to? Can Sorrensen or toast author a Blue Ray DVD ? I am getting quite frustrated as I seem to have been lead down a path that has offered great editing in FCP without being able to get the product to my clients. My clients who have HD tv's appreciate the difference between SD and HD. Why has this taken so long to come around? Curious. Eaveman

Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Posted on Mar 13, 2007 9:55 AM

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Mar 13, 2007 11:05 AM in response to eaveman

Know one knows yet if Apple will support Blu Ray. However, why not just give your clients HDDVDs. You can make them in DVDSP and with the latest update some of the known bugs have been worked out. They get HD quality, they get to buy a cool new DVD player and you get your kudos.

We have sucessfully delivered HDDVD using a standard Red Laser DVD for our customer without having the need for a true HDDVD burner.

As a side note, we do have a PC as well with a Blu-Ray burner and use Sonic DVD Pro HD and have been able to take a HD file and covert it to play on a Blu-Ray player. It is clunky to use and I try to avoid it when possible.

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eaveman Author

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Mar 13, 2007 2:09 PM in response to YNR EditBay

Thanks for the info. What cool new dvd player are you talking about? You must be talking about playing the HDDVD back onto a computer, or is it possible to play it on an HD TV as well. I am very interested. Thanks, Eaveman

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David S.

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Mar 14, 2007 8:16 AM in response to eaveman

I am creating HD DVDs with DVD SP 4.2 complete with menus and h.264 HD encoding, and playing them on the Toshiba A1 and A2 HD DVD players.

I burn to regular DVD5 red laser dye blanks.

They look gorgeous.

My source footage is DVCProHD.

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eaveman Author

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Mar 16, 2007 10:16 AM in response to David S.

Thanks , Im going to give that a go. I'd like to be using DVCproHD as well, but due to the nature of my videos I am using a lighter HDV Camera. Incidently, I have been having a lot of compression problems with HDV. When I print my HDV video to Tape from FCP, I have frame jumping problems, even when I did and HDV quick time of the project ( half hour), imported that into a new FCP project and printed that to tape, it still jumped occasionally. So what I tried next was converting the HDV to DVCprohd in Compressor, then converting that back to HDV ( a lot of work by now) and then printing that to tape, which came out perfect. I suppose that says a lot about the DVCprohd format !

Thanks for your help. Eaveman

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Answer 5

Mar 23, 2007 7:19 AM in response to eaveman

Have you tried capturing with the Apple Intermediate codec?

Todd,
DRM Productions

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David S.

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Mar 23, 2007 8:29 AM in response to eaveman

Remember, that h.264 encoding in DVD SP 4.2 only can accept progressive footage.

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Mar 23, 2007 1:05 PM in response to David S.

I agree with what you guys have said. The fix in DVDSP even allows me to play my HD DVDs that I've burned on my red laser discs on my XBox 360 HD DVD add on player. It looks amazing, plus what a great business write off!

David

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Paxton

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Apr 8, 2007 12:25 PM in response to eaveman

I just spoke to sales and engineering support at Apple: the new 8 Core/Quad Core desktops do not yet offer support via DVDSP for Blu Ray©. You will have seen that Adobe's Premiere Pro will burn Blu Ray but this won't be available until July.

I asume this will be addressed in time but I thought this update was pertinant to this thread.

Paxton

G5 Quad Desktop Mac OS X (10.4.9)

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