Shot a film on the RED and burned it to Blu-Ray

[Josh Negrin]

I burned my film "A Pushover Always Dies" (check out the IMDB page for the trailer) onto Blu-Ray. I took the original 2k master quicktime that I had exported from fcp and plugged that into toast. Toast did the convert and the burn and there really is a difference between watching it on dvd and blu.

Also to note, making the dvd was a pain. Using iDVD, there is no way to burn a progressive scan dvd! You have to make the file in Compressor then send it over to DVD Studio Pro. DVD studio pro will also not burn progressive, unless the file is made in Compressor. Sorry, that was off my original topic, but I do this for a living and that one had me baffled for quite a few hours and dvd coasters.

 

[david farland]

Shot a film on the Red.....

Jim...can we have this option?
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[Josh Negrin]

haha freudian slip there

 

[jimhare]

Did you see the thread of the guy selling Kodak film? I was trying to figure out where to stick it in my Red!

Congrats on the "film."

 

[Kaku Ito]

How is Toast's encoding quality lately?

My method that I mentioned before is to encode with Compressor by setting the encode option blu-ray (so I can use cluster with my three Mac Pros), then author it on Encore.
I find it it's a lot better than Encore's encoding. But I haven't tried the latest Toast, yet.

 

[Josh Negrin]

Encore kept crashing, that's the only reason I went to Toast. I haven't tried compressor, because I was extremely impressed with the results of Toast. Another interesting thing I tried was burning blu-ray content onto a standard dvd for playback on a blu-ray player. Toast encoded that slightly different (the blu-ray encode produced a 2.3 gb file for 15 minutes of video, and the blu-ray for use on a dvd produced a 1.6gb file) I noticed slight artifacting and it didn't look as clean.