Hello to everybody,
just few word to tell you tanks for this very helpful forum! I’m at the beginning in Blu-ray and I found a lot of interesting discussions here.
I’d like to start with Blu-ray (here in Italy some clients ask for VHS again….!!) and my target is a simply BD but with higher quality than DVD, of course! I’ve Final Cut Studio 2 and Encore CS3.
FCP 6 users have to use Encore or Toast to authoring a simple BD. Supposing to discard Toast 9 or 10 for authoring and/or compressing (it seems that someone burned not working BD using Toast) the workflow step-by-step must be as follow:
1) Export the cutted timeline from FCP in self contained or by reference
2) Compress the file in Compressor using MPEG2 Program Stream with Blu-ray option selected: I neeed to manually add the audio AC3 setting;
3) Authoring the BD in Encore, making an autostart disk or a single menu authoring with a play button only, as suggested by Biscardi. It seems that Encore doesn’t re-encode the files obtained from Compressor like Toast.
4) export a burnable .iso image from Encore
5) Burn the image with Toast on the BD-R or BD-RE media
I found this
guide in the web: maybe it’s out of date, but it seems good to give an idea (even if in this tutorial the authoring in Encore is full…)
FCP 7, instead, gives the chance to create a simply BD directly from the timeline using the “share” function. So, even if the authoring capabilities are very limited, it seems that the BD disk obtained from this function works great (this release has now given Compressor the ability to output spec compliant BD H.264 streams for
replication ). I found a good guide
here very well documented, even if it makes a Red-Ray Disc at the end. Here you don’t need to use Compressor or to set parameters: it’s all done automatically by the function.
Finally...
my questions:
1) It is possible to make an autoplay (only or single menu with play button) BD with Encore CS3 or I’m forced to upgrade to CS4 anyway?
2) Inside Compressor, the target bitrate for MPEG2 must limited to 15 Mbps as in Toast or I can set the program to obtain higher quality?
Of course, I saw DoStudio for Windows: it looks great but I can only use my MacPro for now!
Thank for replies,
Alessio
PS: sorry for my awful english…
