FINAL CUT outputting for blu-ray

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ginaluvosi

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Hey guys, I have a little question.
Basically I've been editing my movie for a year, I compressed for DVD everything cool, now I have a distributor asking me to do a Blu-ray disc for some screenings. Now I have a few questions.

I talked to a guy who has a post house and he's gonna make the blu-ray for me, he told me that he works with Adobe and Avid and that the best way is to have an uncompressed movie so he can work from there, so I don't know what to do, cause he asked me to output the movie on a sequence. Now I tried making a DPX sequence (his advice), and when I see it on After Effects or color, it has a blue line in the middle of the frame. I also tried doing an Uncompressed Quicktime movie, but It doesn't allow me, it makes a bunch of AV sequences that are 2 gig of size and when I tried to open them in my other Mac they don't play at all.

I know there's something wrong with what I'm doing. You guys have way more experience. So If you can enlight me I would appreciate it. Or If you guys can give me a way to go around. The main thing Is that I would like to be able to give the guy an uncompressed sequence of the 85 minute long movie so he can do the Blu-ray from a PC , but I don't know how to output it. I've been looking at the books other threads, and nothing.
 
You may not like this option but you could buy Premiere Pro CS3. PP CS3 ships with Encore. Encore supports Blue Ray. Many FCP users have bought PP CS3 just to get Encore. Who knows you may even use Premiere Pro. The CS3 Suit is awesome. As you can tell the myth that all production house use FCP is not true. I am not bashing FCP. I think FCP is great but until iDVD suppports Blue Ray I think it might be wise to buy into Adobe. You may get a cross grade price.

This is just a thought and a solution that has worked for many FCP users.
 
Thanks for the reply...I wouldn't have any problem using Encore or Premiere but I edited the movie on Final Cut Pro the sequence is at 24p 720p, how can I output an 85 min uncompressed sequence of the video that can be feed to Encore that's kind of my main concern, cause the post guy said he wants the best resolution.
 
I am used to everything from Apple being i/something. I thought they would have an iDVD as part of the i/Life. As far as I know the DVD Studio Pro will not support Blue Ray and I was not sure if ginaluvosi wanted to pay for FCS. Either way many FCP users have had to buy into Adobe for Blue Ray support. It is up to you to decide if it is the best option for your business or not. I was just throwing out the idea. An idea that came form FCP users.
 
I imgaine you could export it as uncompressed and let Encore convert it or try to export to the Blue Ray protocal within FCP. There are FCP users using it as we speak and they could tell you better than I can. I imagine you could render a file in HDV or even Panasonics HD-100 codec and let Encore convert that to Blue Ray. I imagine there are different ways to do it and the results will vary. It may become trial and error for you. Keep in mind you will be able to master the Blue Ray disk and the company will only need to mass produce them for you if you want. You will not need the post guy anymore to create the DVD. I think investing in Encore would be wise.
 
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I'd go uncompressed or ProRes for the export and then bring into Encore. It's a little weird that we've got Blu-Ray only on Encore but that's the way it is. With the Blu-Ray blank media at $25 a pop(!) and the discs still not reliably playing on every player I'd say the 3rd party authoring market is still immature.

Noah
 
You could try exporting using the Animation codec. The file will be huge, but Animation is a "universal" codec that just about everything recognizes.

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Try out the tial version for 30 days. FCP is great but I know a few people that switched to PP CS3 and found the change from FCP to PP CS3 very easy. I guess it depends on your needs for Blue Ray if the CS3 will work best. I think FCP and PP CS3 are both good but one might have an advantage over the other for certian projects.
 
medeamajic said:
I am used to everything from Apple being i/something. I thought they would have an iDVD as part of the i/Life. As far as I know the DVD Studio Pro will not support Blue Ray and I was not sure if ginaluvosi wanted to pay for FCS. Either way many FCP users have had to buy into Adobe for Blue Ray support. It is up to you to decide if it is the best option for your business or not. I was just throwing out the idea. An idea that came form FCP users.
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yeah -- no, you are right... as of now none of the iLife or FCSuite will support this.

Very odd, but true.

Toast 8 will burn it, but not encode... so again, you are limited.

CaptM
 
I think the reason PP CS3 and Encore are bundled together is so that Avid, FCP and maybe even a few Speed Edit users will at least try PP CS3 and maybe decide that for Blue Ray projects PP CS3 might work best. That is my guess. Encore and PP used to be two seperate programs. It was FCP users that commented on how the GUI of PP CS3, AE and Encore is the same making things very easy should anyone decide to buy the CS3 package. I actualy use Edius but after reading that in a FCP forum I want to buy the CS3 package unless Avid, Apple or Canopus can offer a better solution at NAB 2008 (they may).
 
I might be wrong but the easiest solution for what I red around is to buy the new Toast Titanium that supports blue ray and burn a disc image of it?
Or even buy a blu ray burner with Toast...?
 
blu ray is h.264 right? so why not just get the ideal specs (bit rate, audio, etc) from your buddy at the post house and export to those specs....
 
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