This IS the Avid L2: [Avid-L2] Re: [FCP-L] BluRay one-offs

Tuesday, November 20, 2012

[Avid-L2] Re: [FCP-L] BluRay one-offs

I find AVID/Sonic DVD simpler to use than Encore for one-offs. I haven't gotten it to write directly to a BluRay (it does for DVD with no problems). I burn an image to a hard drive, then burn the .iso to the BluRay using Roxio.

Curtis Nichols
Senior Editor
PCS Production Co.
Irving, Tx.
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From: "jeff@kinetta.com" <jeff@kinetta.com>
To: FinalCutPro-L@yahoogroups.com; Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com
Cc: "jeff@kinetta.com" <jeff@kinetta.com>
Sent: Monday, November 19, 2012 7:43 PM
Subject: [FCP-L] BluRay one-offs

Hi,

This may be a dumb question, but I need to put together BluRay discs that contain a lot of demo clips for our archival film scanner. Quality and lack of compression artifacts -- with grainy images -- is important.

Original scan files are 3.3K, typically, but may end up reduced to 1920 x 1080 (or pillar boxed in that format) using Resolve 9.

I was going to use a streaming player like a WD or similar, but the BluRay thing seems less likely to screw up -- one box, no hard drives, etc.

I did some quick tests using Adobe Media Encoder CS6 (Windows) and it all seemed to work reasonably well except the gamma and black levels were way off -- nice dark blacks turned into muddy grays. But the grain looked pretty good -- it wasn't mushy.

Any suggestions? Is Encore the best way to make simple BluRays from a bunch of transcoded files? I can use a Mac if need be, but have to use a Hackintosh to write to BluRays.

Also, are there any caveats in cheap BluRay players -- do some offer better decoding than others? This is simple enough stuff -- color and a lot of B&W 24P files, no 3D, audio typically mono or stereo at worst. Are there some players that -- for some reason -- suck? In this case usually it will just be repeating a disk all day long, feeding an HDMI TV.

Thanks for any advice!

Jeff

Jeff Kreines
Kinetta
kinetta.com
jeff@kinetta.com

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