| Apple, Encore and the right Blu Ray DVD burner
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by Terry Flaxton on Jan 23, 2009 at 3:24:24 pm |
I'm in the UK and I need to soon buy an internal or external burner for my octo core mac. If the burner is external then the speed of esata makes sense to me. I've seen fastmac burners and they're dollar to pound: in other words $400 costs £400 in the UK. Has anyone tried to install a 'windows' burner into an internal mac dvd slot and had the happy experience of it working ???? Obviously the costs are half the price. Equally, has anyone got any intelligence about what is happening with MAC and wha is shortly coming with regard to Blu-Ray. I'm keeping my fingers crossed.
A long term DP - likes 35mm and HD equally - changing with digital media - Began as a commercials editor !
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by Terry Flaxton on Jan 24, 2009 at 1:21:38 pm |
Warren - that's great info. I shall try this asap.
A long term DP - likes 35mm and HD equally - changing with digital media - Began as a commercials editor !
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by Ray Lane on Jan 24, 2009 at 4:14:02 pm |
I bought the LaCie external burner and that has worked well. The speed hasn't been a factor either, as the burning doesn't take too long. It's the encoding that kills you. From my experience, Encore is the weak link in the chain! I highly suggest getting a BD-RW and burning the project to the first.
Ray Lane
Visual Dreams
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by Terry Flaxton on Jan 24, 2009 at 4:27:37 pm |
Ray - approximately how long does a 60 minute dvd take to encode (or 30mins or 90mins) whichever you can give me a time on would help. I have a few 60 minute blu rays DVD's to make
A long term DP - likes 35mm and HD equally - changing with digital media - Began as a commercials editor !
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by Warren Eig on Jan 24, 2009 at 6:30:16 pm |
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by Terry Flaxton on Jan 25, 2009 at 10:43:35 am |
Warren - I'm at the beginning of the understanding of this stuff so bare with my ignorance. You said "I do use BD-RE to test before committing to a BD-R. " Can you explain why to me? Also, Does encore take in flash files? I ask this because when authoring a standard DVD I managed to encode a 4 video stream multi angled project that I need to replicate at HD level but I think the streaming rates would be too high (I did that on DVD studio pro and can't find anything on encore that would do that). SInce I've managed to crack multi-angling in flash I wondered if I could drop swf files on to a blu ray disk and use their operability instead of Blu-Ray's lack of operability - if you see what I mean.
A long term DP - likes 35mm and HD equally - changing with digital media - Began as a commercials editor !
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by Joe Bowden on Jan 25, 2009 at 3:04:02 pm |
Encore CS4 will import FLV & F4V files, but no version of Encore to date supports multi-angle video.
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by Terry Flaxton on Jan 25, 2009 at 6:08:49 pm |
Doh! Of course - thanks again for the point about re-write-ables and single record DVD's.
So I have some swf's which I want to import into encore but that only takes FLV's or F4V's - right ? So how do I turn an swf into either of those two file systems (I search around the net but all I seem to get is windows solutions). Seems like CS4 desn't take swf's and output into either - unless I'm missing something. Am I?
A long term DP - likes 35mm and HD equally - changing with digital media - Began as a commercials editor !
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by Joe Bowden on Jan 25, 2009 at 7:46:37 pm |
[Terry Flaxton] " So how do I turn an swf into either of those two file systems (I search around the net but all I seem to get is windows solutions)."
You could try this in Flash. But if you have Flash, you could export an AVI or MOV that Encore would probably prefer.
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by Terry Flaxton on Jan 25, 2009 at 11:08:03 pm |
Thanks for the help.
A long term DP - likes 35mm and HD equally - changing with digital media - Began as a commercials editor !
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by Ray Lane on Jan 24, 2009 at 7:10:03 pm |
Tough to say since you have an octo. My old G5 workstation takes a few hours for a 1 pass VBR through Compressor. The two pass took twice as long. My MacBook Pro seems to be similar using Adobe Media Encoder. And of course if you use MPEG4 it will be a bit longer.
Ray Lane
Visual Dreams
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by Andrew Ford on Mar 12, 2009 at 7:02:48 pm |
I second the quality of the LaCie d2 external Blu-ray drive, especially if you work on a Mac.
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/602325-REG/LaCie_301856U_d2_Blu_ray_D...
I have authored over 50 Blu-ray discs with this drive since getting it in Jan and I've had no problems. I use the FW400 connection and the burn time is fast. The portability is great when I'm on the road. I've used TDK, Verbatim, and Sony discs, both BD-R and BD-RE, 25 and 50gb, and no problems across the board. Letting Encore transcode can be painfully slow, so I use Sorenson instead to get a better result in a little less time.
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by Tyler Back on Nov 22, 2009 at 12:43:33 am |
Andrew, are you able to give any insight on your workflow to creating so many successful Blu-ray discs? I am getting ready to do my first BD and I am starting to get overwhelmed with all the different methods.
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by Terry Flaxton on Jan 26, 2009 at 5:48:50 pm |
So, happily I went off and tried a solution suggested by Warren- that is, getting a Panasonic SW-5583 Blu-Ray - of course these units are not available in the UK yet !!!
Has anyone tried the LG GGW-H20L Internal on a MAC - this one I can get easily and cheaply
Thank you for everyone that's already replied.
A long term DP - likes 35mm and HD equally - changing with digital media - Began as a commercials editor !
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by Erik Scairpon on Feb 3, 2009 at 10:30:04 pm |
I am also curious as to the performance and satisfaction with this drive. Anyone have an experience to relate?
Thanks in advance,
Erik
http://www.lwvideo.com
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