EI animation to HD TV

[brianwhitecc]

I recently finished a project just like this...

I created from AE a QuickTime mov at 1920 x 1080 24 fps. I think it can be authored DVD StudioPro but what you need is a blu-ray writer and blu-ray discs. They are coming down in price, but I went here:

http://www.duplitech.com/

they were very accommodating and not too expensive. I didn't need any menus, just a 3 min movie that would automatically load and loop. You also need a blu-ray player, a PS3 works.

I have done other HD projects where the client wasn't ready to commit to purchasing blu-players and we were able to compress the movie using H.264 and play it full screen with a HDTV connected to a Mac. I never actually saw it running but the client said it looked great.

brian

[juanxer]

Roxio's Toast (http://www.roxio.com/enu/products/toast/default.html) probably is the cheapest route to author simple Blu-Rays, I guess. Also, it seems you can burn small Blu-Ray-type projects onto DVDs and get them to play in most standalone players.

[Jens C. Möller]

I've been trawling the web for a set of instructions on how to take an animation and play it at full HD on a HD TV via a Blu-Ray player or whatever....

Hello Steve,

if "whatever" is an option for you I think the easiest way ist to connect the video card of your computer via HDMI to the HD TV. Than render ar 1920x1080 and compress to FotoJPG fo best performance. I do this all the time with no problems.

Jens

[SteveA]

Thanks to the three of you for your help.

The solution that we eventually adopted goes something like this:

Create the HD resolution render in EI and composite in After Effects (or similar) rendering to an uncompressed HD resolution Quicktime file.

Convert this file into a Blu-ray Video file using Toast 10, writing to a standard DVD disc via a standard DVD-RW writer (we use Mac Pros)

This will then play full HD with a Blu-Ray player. We bought a Samsung BD-P4600; a beautiful machine that is just about portable, and will be suitable for taking to clients offices or such like (it's not expensive either and Amazon are offering 2 free movies when you purchase).

The animation looked absolutely stunning on my 40" HD screen at home...

Thanks again

SteveA

[kbitz]

Hi Steve,

If you are writing to a Standard DVD, does it actually write a full res HD file (1920x1080) to the disk? I thought that process would down-res it to SD anamorphic.

thanks
Ken

[SteveA]

No. It is most definitely true HD. As I said, the results were stunning when viewed on my 40" Samsung and definitely not scaled down by Toast.

[richardjoly]

Yes, astonishing results with home HD camcorder... On standard DVD.

[ediris]

Ok sorry for taking the thread in another direction, but i am more concern withpreviewing the animation in a true HD monitor, as i am looking to Flanders Scientific and JVC DTV24L3D for quality check. I understand that with those new monitors the viewing off axis is a problem, i am about to get those big depth monitors which are very old school but the viewing off axis being an editor my self had never a problem. But there seems to be not so much of them. If somebody could help mein this regard, budget is about 3K to 4K is not much but that is waht we have.
Thanks,Edgard

[UnixMonkey]

Steve,
Thanks for posting your solution. I've been looking into this exact thing lately. I was hoping that the upgrade to FCP Studio and DVD Studio Pro would support BlueRay encoding, but sadly while FCP does support the BlueRay codec, DVD Studio Pro does not burn the BR discs. The only way to burn a BR disc, that I know, is to use either Adobe Encore or Toast. I have Encore, but I still need to get the burner. I'll take a look at the one that you're using. Thanks for sharing.

Richard

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