Chugach3DGuy
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Hi all, I'm looking for some opinions and reasoning here. At the Day Job, I just finished a very long and drawn-out-too-long process of editing a 2-hour long independent film. The way the deal originally worked was that once we had picture lock, I would create a DVD image for mass production. However, the director and producer are now totally convinced (by a distribution exec) that they MUST have Blu-ray... And not just Blu-Ray, but the full 1080p blow-your-mind-away Blu-Ray.
Now, that's all fine and good except for this:
The whole flick was shot on an HVX200 at 720p/24.
Final Cut Studio 2 doesn't support Blu-Ray
There is no Compressor setting for DVCProHD 1080p/24
Now, I've already explained to the client that since the movie was shot in 720p, they're not going to get any more detail out of it. However, I'm being told that 720p isn't "FULL HD" and therefore won't sell- so we need to do the whole "True HD" thing and upconvert to 1080p.
So, what I'm doing is rendering out of Final Cut through Compressor to the XDCAM HD format at 1080p/24. I can't do uncompressed because there just isn't enough disk space, and like I said above, I can't even keep it in DVCProHD because no such setting exists. Once that's done with, I'll need to transfer the file over to Adobe Encore in order to create menus and a Blu-Ray image. Is this a good way to work around this mess, or is changing formats like crossing the streams in Ghostbusters?
Or, should I just keep it at 720p and let all the BD players upconvert to 1080p themselves? Has anyone else out there in Video Editing Land experienced anything like this before? Is there really any benefit at all to upconverting video like that? To me, it seems more like a waste of time and space...
Now, that's all fine and good except for this:
The whole flick was shot on an HVX200 at 720p/24.
Final Cut Studio 2 doesn't support Blu-Ray
There is no Compressor setting for DVCProHD 1080p/24
Now, I've already explained to the client that since the movie was shot in 720p, they're not going to get any more detail out of it. However, I'm being told that 720p isn't "FULL HD" and therefore won't sell- so we need to do the whole "True HD" thing and upconvert to 1080p.
So, what I'm doing is rendering out of Final Cut through Compressor to the XDCAM HD format at 1080p/24. I can't do uncompressed because there just isn't enough disk space, and like I said above, I can't even keep it in DVCProHD because no such setting exists. Once that's done with, I'll need to transfer the file over to Adobe Encore in order to create menus and a Blu-Ray image. Is this a good way to work around this mess, or is changing formats like crossing the streams in Ghostbusters?
Or, should I just keep it at 720p and let all the BD players upconvert to 1080p themselves? Has anyone else out there in Video Editing Land experienced anything like this before? Is there really any benefit at all to upconverting video like that? To me, it seems more like a waste of time and space...