Mark,
For your specific purpose, you could also look into something like the WD
Media player... Which is much smaller than a blu-ray player. The Western
Digital Media Player will play off of a hard drive or a flash drive. You
can encode each of the movies as an H264 either in SD or HD... IT depends
on the signal that goes to the projector (it outputs HDMI) but the SD should
look okay (do some tests) -- plus it depends if the projector is full 1080
or 720... Either way you can avoid the whole Blu-Ray authoring step, and
could either assemble one long movie of all the films together, or have them
as separate movies in their own formats... H264 holds up really well, and
the player has handled even 100% quality H264 files...
Just a suggestion.
Deco
On 6/2/11 7:46 AM, "edwin m" <ed___209_at_hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> the main thing for me would be that sd up-rezzed to hd can look pretty
> terrible (much worse, side-by-side, than if it was being projected from an sd
> file). i'd consider three options:
>
> 1) getting someone who's dealt with it before to up-res it for you (new
> versions of after effects can do it quite well, don't do it in final cut!)
> another important thing is to have as high-quality sd file as you can, so if
> you've got them on digibeta then that's probably best
>
> 2) project the sd and hd films separately
>
> 3) import the sd files into an hd timeline at their native scale, so when
> projected they sit in the centre of the screen with a lot of black around
> them. just in my opinion, i'd say this is visually much more acceptable if you
> can't project separately. also if any of the sd files are 4:3, you won't lose
> any image, which you would if you up-rezzed and filled the frame.
>
> i'm sure there are people with more experience doing it than me, but i hope
> one of those is helpful!
>
> edwin
>
>
>
>> > Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2011 13:52:10 -0700
>> > From: mark_williams_1_at_yahoo.com
>> > To: frameworks_at_jonasmekasfilms.com
>> > Subject: [Frameworks] combining SD and HD
>> >
>> > Hello Frameworkers,
>> >
>> > Just curious if anyone has any thoughts on the technical issues of
>> combining individual SD and HD video works on a single BluRay disk?
>> >
>> > Basically I am wanting to present a single programme screening of 6 videos
>> in a series of improvised spaces. I have the individual works as files, but
>> for various reasons I can't screen off computer. As I need to be mobile
>> BluRay seems a good solution.
>> >
>> > I am unsure of the exact specs of the files, I only know some are SD and
>> others HD. Any problems with 'bumping up' the SD works to play back on the
>> BluRay? Anything to watch out for? We will probably use Final Cut.
>> >
>> > all thoughts and comments appreciated!
>> >
>> > best,
>> > Mark
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
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