My full workflow will be:
1) Capture - Using a Canon 5DM2 at 30fps and 1080p plus a Canon XH-A1 at 29.97fps and 1080p to capture the video. I'll capture the audio with a Sony PCM-D50 plugged into the school's mixer board.
2) Transcode - I'll use Cineform's Neoscene to transcode the video into a more edit friendly codec.
3) Sound Edit - I'll clean up the sound in Soundbooth. For the play I shot last year, I spent a lot of time adjusting the volume of various kids that were too quiet, too loud, or too far from the mic.
4) Video Edit - I'll pull all the sound and video together in Premiere Pro. One thing that I want to play with this year is surround encoding. I'll stick crowd sounds (applause, laughter) mainly in the rear. I'll put the stage sounds on the center channel. I'll spread the chorus across the front sound stage.
5) I'll encode with Media Encoder. I'll create separate video streams for DVD and Blu-Ray.
5) I'll scrounge up some backgrounds, menus and graphics and modify them in Photoshop.
6) Finally, I'll pull it all together with Encore. I'm hoping that I can easily make one project with Encore that will allow me to generate a DVD version and a Blu-Ray version.
I've been making DVD's for people for years and it has been a very long time since I've had any compatibility issues. I don't think that'll be a problem. I have no idea what to expect from Blu-Ray. At nearly $4 a disk, I hope that I won't hit too many issues.
