Re: Encore & Blue Ray on the Mac

[Mark Suszko] "So, any chance of a COW tutorial or podcast how-to for doing it?

Outlining the workflow and any particular settings, I mean? "

You mean for archiving material? Just export a self contained Quicktime from your timeline, Launch Toast, drag the quicktime to Toast and burn using the Data setting. Be sure you have your BluRay burner selected for burning.

If you mean archiving your final video to BluRay and then being able to bring that back, no I would not recommend that. You're still saving a re-compressed file that is degraded file from the HD original. I said the resulting BluRay "looks" identical to our HD originals, but of course it's not. It's been recompressed and i would not want to have to convert that MPEG-2 to Quicktime for further editing.

Actually just for that, Toast will probably work fine. Compress in Compressor and burn using Toast's bluray settings. But again, I would not recommend the BluRay format itself as an archive format. I would still archive the Quicktime movie in the original HD codec.



Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media
HD and SD Production for Broadcast and Independent Productions.

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