Re: Encore & Blue Ray on the Mac

Walter and the rest of you seem to mostly be thinking about fully-authored interactive BD titles, stuff for public release to the consumer, things that would go to a mass-replicator facility. And that kind of stuff I know is complicated even for SD DVD's that we have NOW.

But my particular issue, and sorry for me bringing it up so often, is that the BD media looks great as a way to master things like High Def commercials, PSA's, VNR's and similar promo material, to archive on a shelf as well as to send to a broadcaster that's not reachable with an FTP solution, or for some reason wants physical media. To my way of thinking, BD HAS to be a cheaper and more efficient method than using (very!) expensive HD tape decks to move and distribute HD broadcast media. So, the needs for a person like me, who is making specialized product for airing on TV stations and cable networks, are very much simpler than someone authoring full-blown feature-filled and navigable BD titles for the consumer and industrial markets and mega-large duplication runs. I just need my gorram HD spots to play thru or be readable for transfer to a station's server, period. And I want to simply lay off HD programming to a BD disk, burn 20 or 50 copies in a BD capable Bravo printer, put a master BD disk on a shelf, and forget about it for a year or two, until someone needs it again. That's about as simple as one could ask for.

For me, for my needs, I can afford to wait for a fully developed HD BD authoring tool for the mac. But I am DYING right now for that simpler utility I mentioned. If I have to buy Toast I will. This method might make an interesting tutorial online or for the magazine, actually. "Simple offline HD archiving and linear playback distribution on BD for the mac... without making you nuts".

Ok, title needs shortening, but still... :-)