Archive for November, 2010
ProKit Update breaks DVDSP?
Some users of the Final Cut Suite are reporting that the latest ProKit update from Apple is causing them issues. Typically, DVDSP is not burning properly, odd events are happening to prevent the system working at all, and in some cases the whole FCP suite is unstable.
I’m not sure why this is, and so far no news has come from Apple, however the way back to usability might be to replace the new ProKit files with the earlier version. This is actually easy to do if you’ve got a copy of the right files… and there is a set attached to this post for you.
Go to your System/Library/Private Frameworks folder and then on to ProKit.framework folder. Back this up to your desktop and zip up the resulting folder… then replace the contents with the earlier version files. Re-boot and you should be back to version 5.1 again.
Remember, be careful with your system whenever you mess with the library files. We can take no responsibility for system errors or instability introduced by using these files or following this guide.
Blu-Ray Authoring
It’s an almost relentless question… can DVD Studio Pro create Blu-Ray discs?
Nope. DVDSP is a standard definition authoring tool, or HD DVD authoring only. Since HD DVDs are effectively dead in the water (the winner in the high definition DVD battle was Blu-Ray) there is pretty much no point creating them. There are no players that will play them, apart from a few computers here and there.
Some people have had success with HD content on a standard def disc – the principle is that you create the HD material and encode at HD bitrates, but write it to a SD disc. This works in some players, but not all. The sadder news is that DVDSP just won’t create Blu-Ray at all…
Steve Jobs has been quoted to say something along the lines of Blu-Ray licensing being a ‘world of pain’. I guess this means we won’t be seeing anything like a Blu-Ray authoring environment from Apple anytime soon. For now, then, any HD content you want to make into Blu-Ray will cost you big bucks to get done through a bureau, however there are more and more Blu-Ray burners appearing on the market, and thus some attempts at Blu-Ray authoring applications. All of them on PCs.
And I’ve just noticed that this post is exactly one year on from the previous! I really ought to get a few more tutorials done soon!
