All of a sudden we’re creating a whole lotta BluRay discs these days. NTSC and PAL for screenings all over the world. Sounds like many film festivals are now accepting BluRay discs as a playback format and of course, it’s a lot cheaper to do one of these than an HDCAM tape.
So we’re in BluRay central right now, regardless of what Steve Jobs might say about the format. What I love about the discs is they pretty much perfectly replicate the quality we see playing off our Apple ProRes timelines in Final Cut Pro. A few weeks ago we did a screening for some executives on a 45′ screen in a 450 seat theater playing straight off our BluRay player. The darn thing looked just like a film despite playing at 1080i / 29.97.
Normally we would drop into DoStudio for all our BluRay work but since all the film festivals require is a “Play” button, we’re using Adobe Encore as this is about the only task it’s well suited for with BluRay authoring. All compression is being done in Apple’s Compressor and the menus created in Adobe Photoshop.
We’re using Nero on our HP machine to burn the BluRay discs, though we can also use Toast on one of the Mac Pros to do the same task. It’s just that the HP was literally purchased to do nothing but BluRay authoring so it’s just sitting there needing a task to do. And of course we still have our BluRay duplicator we’ve had for 3 years now still going strong, though we’ll probably have to update to a 4 burner unit so we can turn these around even faster. Maybe when we open the new place…..
Funny, we’re a Mac shop turning out BluRay discs that Apple won’t even support. Kind of like trying to run Flash on my iPad, but that’s a whole ‘nother blog entry…..
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