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Philip Fass · July 3rd, 2009, 01:05 PM

Are BR discs recorded with Toast comparable in PQ to commercial ones, or does it depend on many variables?

My footage was shot at 1080i in HDV.

Taky Cheung · July 5th, 2009, 12:32 PM

It depends on how you transcode the video and what encoder you use.

Philip Fass · July 5th, 2009, 02:23 PM

I'd be using MOV files in Toast 10.

Perrone Ford · July 5th, 2009, 07:17 PM

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Originally Posted by Philip Fass

Are BR discs recorded with Toast comparable in PQ to commercial ones, or does it depend on many variables?

My footage was shot at 1080i in HDV.

Home Burned BluRay PQ is very similar to commercial quality, though not the same. So if you were processing video sourced by the $100k-$500k professional cameras with your Toast program, you could achieve similar results.

But HDV isn't magically going to look great just because it's on BluRay.

Tom Roper · July 7th, 2009, 03:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Perrone Ford

But HDV isn't magically going to look great just because it's on BluRay.

It looked pretty good when I was doing it because 1440x1080/60i is a natively supported format for Blu-ray. Perhaps some of the problems people had were in thinking they had to transcode it to 1920, which they don't.

Perrone Ford · July 7th, 2009, 04:17 PM

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Originally Posted by Tom Roper

It looked pretty good when I was doing it because 1440x1080/60i is a natively supported format for Blu-ray. Perhaps some of the problems people had were in thinking they had to transcode it to 1920, which they don't.

Sure. But when compared to "commercial" BluRay when the Source is scanned film, 4k or even 2k, HDV isn't going to look the same. This is not to say it can't look "good" because it certainly can.

Philip Fass · July 8th, 2009, 04:15 AM

What I'm hoping for is PQ that's significantly better than the disappointing quality I'm getting with DVDs created with FCP-QT-Compressor-DVDSP.

I own some DVDs produced by small independents that look even fuzzier than mine (like some PBS music specials), and other DVDs that are near BR in quality. I want to burn a BR that looks at least like a high quality commercial DVD.

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July 5th, 2009, 02:23 PM	#3
Philip Fass Regular Crew Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Charlotte, VT Posts: 148	I'd be using MOV files in Toast 10.

July 8th, 2009, 04:15 AM	#7
Philip Fass Regular Crew Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Charlotte, VT Posts: 148	What I'm hoping for is PQ that's significantly better than the disappointing quality I'm getting with DVDs created with FCP-QT-Compressor-DVDSP. I own some DVDs produced by small independents that look even fuzzier than mine (like some PBS music specials), and other DVDs that are near BR in quality. I want to burn a BR that looks at least like a high quality commercial DVD.