Work flow to blue ray at DVinfo.net

Lee D. Turner · February 5th, 2009, 02:43 PM

Hi all, Im using fcs2 on a g5, i film with the Sony HVR-V1E, still on tape, but hopefully will be buying a firestore hard drive. I have just landed a nice filming job. I have to film and edit a dvd. All my filming work will be outdoors. There is talk about blue ray aswell as sd for a dvd product at the end of the year.

I always film in high def , and capture in prores. Is the best way for the picture ? and blue ray . Most of my work so far has been hdv on the web . \

Many thanks

Justin Ferar · February 5th, 2009, 07:28 PM

Not trying to be a punk here but maybe you could re-phrase the question because it certainly is not clear...

Lee D. Turner · February 6th, 2009, 06:10 AM

Sorry about that, trying to to many things at once.

I have a project to do this year, Which will end up on a dvd at the end of the year. There is talk about producing a BlueRay dvd aswell as a standard format dvd.
I'm going to be filming it with a Sony HVR-V1E, and using FCS 2 for editing etc.
The plan is to film all my footage in Highdef.

Which would be the best capture setting ?

I have been using the ProRes capture setting for my past projects. But would this be the best to produce to a BlueRay dvd ?

I dont want to lose any quality in picture. But still dont want to have to export it and re import it.

Aric Mannion · February 6th, 2009, 09:31 AM

Yeah, Pro Res is fine for blu-ray.

Justin Ferar · February 6th, 2009, 12:19 PM

For blu-ray- it's eventually going to end up as H.264 on the disc so digitizing and editing in ProRes and then exporting/converting to H.264 is pretty much the de facto standard for FCP at this point.

The other way to go about things is to digitize as HDV and just set your sequence settings to render as ProRes. This way only your renders are Pro-Res and your raw video remains untouched as HDV saving you boatloads of drive space. This is what I do and it's just as good as digitizing everything as ProRes.

Lee D. Turner · February 6th, 2009, 01:46 PM

Cool , so just keep going the way i am at the moment. ProRes .

Thanks very much .

February 5th, 2009, 02:43 PM	#1
Lee D. Turner New Boot Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: London Posts: 15	Work flow to blue ray Hi all, Im using fcs2 on a g5, i film with the Sony HVR-V1E, still on tape, but hopefully will be buying a firestore hard drive. I have just landed a nice filming job. I have to film and edit a dvd. All my filming work will be outdoors. There is talk about blue ray aswell as sd for a dvd product at the end of the year. I always film in high def , and capture in prores. Is the best way for the picture ? and blue ray . Most of my work so far has been hdv on the web . \ Many thanks

February 5th, 2009, 07:28 PM	#2
Justin Ferar Major Player Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Larkspur, CA Posts: 378	Not trying to be a punk here but maybe you could re-phrase the question because it certainly is not clear... __________________ www.justinferar.com www.weddingsonfilm.com

February 6th, 2009, 12:19 PM	#5
Justin Ferar Major Player Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Larkspur, CA Posts: 378	For blu-ray- it's eventually going to end up as H.264 on the disc so digitizing and editing in ProRes and then exporting/converting to H.264 is pretty much the de facto standard for FCP at this point. The other way to go about things is to digitize as HDV and just set your sequence settings to render as ProRes. This way only your renders are Pro-Res and your raw video remains untouched as HDV saving you boatloads of drive space. This is what I do and it's just as good as digitizing everything as ProRes. __________________ www.justinferar.com www.weddingsonfilm.com

February 6th, 2009, 06:10 AM	#3
Lee D. Turner New Boot Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: London Posts: 15	Sorry about that, trying to to many things at once. I have a project to do this year, Which will end up on a dvd at the end of the year. There is talk about producing a BlueRay dvd aswell as a standard format dvd. I'm going to be filming it with a Sony HVR-V1E, and using FCS 2 for editing etc. The plan is to film all my footage in Highdef. Which would be the best capture setting ? I have been using the ProRes capture setting for my past projects. But would this be the best to produce to a BlueRay dvd ? I dont want to lose any quality in picture. But still dont want to have to export it and re import it.

February 6th, 2009, 09:31 AM	#4
Aric Mannion Major Player Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Boston, Massachusetts Posts: 616	Yeah, Pro Res is fine for blu-ray.

February 6th, 2009, 01:46 PM	#6
Lee D. Turner New Boot Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: London Posts: 15	Cool , so just keep going the way i am at the moment. ProRes . Thanks very much .