Re: Encore & Blue Ray on the Mac

I think instead of harping so much on Adobe - which, after all, bad or indifferent, at least has *something* out there, and had it for some time now - we should be pestering Apple more for a BD upgrade or add-on to FCP/DVDSP. Soonest.

I'm sure the delay is because Apple and Sony's lawyers are still in the thunderdome over rights and piracy and royalties, etc. and not so much over engineering issues. But meanwhile BD technology for our community's needs is suffering greatly.

Frankly, I would be happy at this point just to have some stable Apple app that would burn an FCP project to a BD disk, even if it was just a straight play-thru format. For distributing spots and the like to broadcasters, you don't need all that much authoring and interactivity, and even just a little utility like this would be enough to launch a lot of HD work on the mac platform. I mean it would be better to HAVE all the same things in high def we have in SD with DVDSP, but at this point, very little is getting done on the mac platform in BD, simply because of this holdup.

And it makes me crazy, because you have the makings of an HD content creation explosion, all corked up because the "last mile" - burning to HD on bluRay... is not worked out yet.

Come on, Jobs, get those guys to cut the knot and release something that works, even if it is just a simple "archive to BD" utility. We're dying over here.