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quote: Originally posted by BEIGE: quote: By the first part I mean that say I create a new Blu-ray project, add all streams I want to it and make sure it's at 8.5 gigs in total, can I burn it onto a regular DVD and stick it into a PS3 and have it recognized as a blu-ray movie? Or does the disc has to physically be Blu-ray? Haven't tried it but I don't think that will work. It's a different file system, not just a bigger...

quote: By the first part I mean that say I create a new Blu-ray project, add all streams I want to it and make sure it's at 8.5 gigs in total, can I burn it onto a regular DVD and stick it into a PS3 and have it recognized as a blu-ray movie? Or does the disc has to physically be Blu-ray? Haven't tried it but I don't think that will work. It's a different file system, not just a bigger disk. xoa - ah, that is news to me....

quote: Originally posted by BEIGE: infinite - not sure what you are meaning but Apple will have to support HDCP DRM if they want to play Blu-ray movies. It's in the hardware spec and if the OS and hardware don't support it, you will get an SD rendering of the content. BEIGE, are you sure about this? I've read the spec before I was nearly positive that an SD downgrade would happen if, and only, the optional ICT was utilized by...

What is with the screenshots being JPEGs and badly scaled? Everyone and their uncle knows PNG or GIF files are better for screenshots than JPEG files. They also know that almost all browsers do a terrible job of scaling images. Yet recently most Ars reviews have used JPEGs for screenshots or even graphs, which have led to nasty looking artefacts. I know this is beside the point, but it's web-publishing 101, and it's a mistake that...

This is a wonderful review. I have questions about the minimum requirements to successfully run the program...Intel E6550 brawny enough to do Blu Ray or is a Quad required?

Re: screenshots, why are they all a sea of grey? Is that Adobe style or mac style? Just looking at all this grey makes me feel depressed.... what if I wanted to produce a jolly comedy with this software? ;P

Nice review, though I don't really see the huge gains over DVD Studio Pro -- many features seem to match one another. Love the Flash output option but 640x480 is, as mentioned, useless, not even widescreen. One thing I don't think the review addressed: does HDV (or AVCHD) footage need to be recompressed to go onto a Blu-Ray disc? DVD SP doesn't recompress HDV, which is a big time saver for hobbyist applications. DVD SP does have...

Bitrate: Dunno why, but every bitrate I have ever seen is a BITrate as in bits per second, not bytes. Video bitrates, audio bitrates, even internet connection speeds. I was told this is (well, the network rates anyway) because some transmissions use 7 or less bits per character so the bytes per second wouldn't equal the baud... or something. Gray: it's neutral so the color of the interface doesn't mess with how you see the...

quote: Originally posted by intelligent and good-looking: Re: screenshots, why are they all a sea of grey? Is that Adobe style or mac style? Just looking at all this grey makes me feel depressed.... what if I wanted to produce a jolly comedy with this software? ;P That's Adobe's interface, but it's highly typical of "pro" interfaces to be a neutral grey so as not to distract the eye or (potentially) clash with the...

As mentioned, you can certainly create new menus in Encore from scratch. Why you would want to, except for the quickest thrown-together projects is another question, given how easy it is to do everything in PS, but you can do it. The bug about AE compositions is certainly annoying, but it is also a known issue mentioned in the read me files, so they will probably fix it. Another bug which you may encounter even when working with DVD projects...