FIREPROOF makes for a good Blu-ray
I’ve been waiting for the review of FIREPROOF on Bluray.com for a few weeks since they had previously released the Facing the Giants one. I’m pleased to report the news is good, Fireproof does well on Bluray. For those of you who don’t know, Fireproof was shot on the Varicam and tethered to a MacPro computer (my buddy Bill Ebel was on-site editor and ingested the feed as shooting happened). It was captured from the HD-SDI source of the Varicam to Apple Prorez 422, a new codec at the time. From what I heard, Apple caught wind of them planning on this and Fireproof became a bit of a guinea pig to see how the codec would do. The Varicam is by chip-size and resolution, a 720p camera so there was an up-rez done to the footage on ingesting…but I’m pleased to announce the 1080 image of Fireproof seems to deliver just great!
The biggest surprise (and biggest relief in my opinion) is that the special features come in 1080p as well. The HVX200 was used on set and offset as the primary behind the scenes camera, including the interviews from what I understand. Shot in 1080p, I’m pleased to see the extras delivered this way. Often some Bluray’s get slapped with a SD source for the Behind the Scenes, but not here. Even the bloopers are in HD! 
Thanks to Sony for releasing such a high quality release. I’m looking forward to enjoying Fireproof in the greatest possible quality when it comes out one week from today!
Read the review here: http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Fireproof-Blu-ray-Review/5408/
