Blue Ray
by Dean Brennan
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Oct 9, 2008 at 1:37:43 pm
I know I have read a lot about Adobe Encore not being a reliable solution for authoring Blue Ray. Is DVD Studio Pro a good solution for this or do people run into a lot of errors or problems when authoring Blue Ray?
Re: Blue Ray by Chris Detjen on Oct 9, 2008 at 2:13:04 pm
DVDSP does not provide Blu Ray support at this time. Search this forum and there are some detailed discussions on whether Apple plans to implement Blu Ray authoring for DVDSP.
Re: Blue Ray by Dean Brennan on Oct 9, 2008 at 4:01:56 pm
WOW! That's one of those posts you look at later and wonder what you were thinking. I knew that. I have authored a few HD DVD's in the last year. Thanks for the reply Eric. Looks like I need to start drinking coffee in the morning to wake up my brain.
Re: Blue Ray by walter biscardi on Oct 12, 2008 at 11:53:47 am
Dean, we switched from Encore to NetBlender's DoStudio last month and the results have been impressive. It's definitely not a drag and drop application by any means, but it's fully commercial BluRay spec compliant, meaning we can send off our projects for commercial replication if need be.
It does require a Windows workstation so I picked up a really nice HP workstation (only $1,700 including the BluRay burner!) and we the team over at NetBlender has been awesome in helping us get up and running. We recently completed a 5 disc set for a new PBS series we're cutting.
Re: Blue Ray by Dean Brennan on Oct 13, 2008 at 1:21:24 pm
Walter, thanks for the info. I will definitely look into this option. I have read and had numerous problems with BluRay Authoring in Encore and I am not sure what CS4 has to offer yet. I will probably start searching the adobe forums soon. But if NetBlender's DoStudio performs like you have stated I would switch in a heartbeat. What is the learning curve like with this software?
I already have a dedicated PC that could be used for this. It would just be a matter of purchasing the software.
Re: Blue Ray by walter biscardi on Oct 13, 2008 at 1:30:54 pm
[Dean Brennan]" But if NetBlender's DoStudio performs like you have stated I would switch in a heartbeat. What is the learning curve like with this software?
I already have a dedicated PC that could be used for this. It would just be a matter of purchasing the software.
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Plan to spend at least two days walking through the software and figuring it out. If you have experience in Encore that's a good thing because it acts more like Encore than the fully drag and drop DVDSP. It's very user / author heavy. You basically program every single step of the way and then some. I'm still figuring it out myself, my editor has spent more time with it and he knows it a bit better. I'm actually planning a tutorial for the Cow as soon as I can dedicate some time with the NetBlender folks.
There are very specific specs for the PC, look at the specs on the NetBlender site to make sure your machine qualifies. If you have any questions at all on the specs, ask them. They've been quick to respond to any and all questions with us.
One big thing is to throw out the "DVD mindset." We run one single pop-up menu now instead of multiple menus because it just works better with BluRay than the multi-level menus we're so used to with DVD's.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media HD and SD Production for Broadcast and Independent Productions.
Re: Blue Ray by eric pautsch on Oct 13, 2008 at 3:10:09 pm
Actually, DoStudio is, very much, a drag and drop program! It's designed for people who have DVDSP and Encore experience. One thing to remember is that each component of the menu and its button state are separate, sliced PNG files - not one big movie file with some 8bit button highlights. Once these PNG are sliced out of your initial design palette in Photoshop, they can be dragged into DoStudio and dropped in the layout where you need them.
Netblender has provided an outboard tool call Mosaic in Do Studio which uses nameing conventions to place your sliced images but I personally don't like using it :) Manually slicing the PNGs and dragging them onto the layout it much easier in my book :)
