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winrockpost wrote on 9/24/2006, 5:20 PM
.......Is there any support for Blu-Ray burners in Vegas 7+DVD?

Nope ,Sony ?
andyd wrote on 9/24/2006, 5:25 PM
Yeah, just got one of the sony 25 Gig / 50 Gig burners, and I am bummed because no BD-DVD authoring... I got it for about $675 with a 10% off coupon at Best Buy.
FrigidNDEditing wrote on 9/24/2006, 10:25 PM
so you guys have burners... do you have discs? are they even selling discs? I didn't know that BD's were even a viable output on the consumer/prosumer level. Maybe I'm just out of touch.

Dave
dibbkd wrote on 9/24/2006, 10:49 PM
Looks like BB does have some BD media
Justin Young wrote on 9/24/2006, 11:20 PM
As far as I have heard the only Blu-Ray authoring software that currently exists costs well over $50,000 and is probably only available to certified production companies. I think we will have to wait a while for this, I don't even think even the existing software supports anything other than MPEG2 encoding. None of the existing Blu-Ray releases use any of the more advanced codecs. Until they can get their high-end software working properly I doubt we will see anything in our market.
JohnnyRoy wrote on 9/25/2006, 4:15 AM
> As far as I have heard the only Blu-Ray authoring software that currently exists costs well over $50,000 and is probably only available to certified production companies.

Then you obviously haven’t heard that Sony VIAO laptops are shipping with Ulead BD Recorder included for FREE. According to this article at ImageInfo.com:

The application provides BD direct-to-disc recording to allow users to record high-definition video content from HDV camcorders, such as the Sony HDR-HC1 or HC3, to rewritable or recordable Blu-ray discs in full HDV resolution. Video may be recorded directly from camcorder to disc in real-time, or can be first captured to hard drive for editing.

So it seems the Sony hardware divisions have all their ducks in a row this time.

~jr
JJKizak wrote on 9/25/2006, 5:30 AM
Hmmmmm---$50,000.00 or for free, which one should I choose?

JJK
donwidener wrote on 9/25/2006, 5:42 AM
andyd,

Isn't there software included witht he burner? I, like you, am a Vegas user and was hoping there would be support in either Vegas7 or DVD4. What type of file is created by the software and read by the playe;r is it the m2t stream? Thanks for anyone's help.
PeterWright wrote on 9/25/2006, 6:19 AM
> Hmmmmm---$50,000.00 or for free, which one should I choose?

JJK - your dilemma is shared ....
bStro wrote on 9/25/2006, 7:06 AM
I think it may be a question of what these applications can actually do. Sony's Blu-Print software is an authoring application like DVD Architect, and I would imagine it's a very good one at that price. From the description JohnnyRoy posted, it sounds like ULead's software is strictly a burning tool -- ie, you can write a file to a Blu-Ray disc, and that's pretty much it. (Maybe it's more -- I'm just going by what I read.)

If you just want to take an HDV file and slap it on a disc, probably without menus, navigation, etc., go with the the ULead software. If you want to actually author menus, navigation, and whatever wiz-bang features Hollywood is putting on Blu-Ray discs, you'll probably have to go with Blu-Print or wait until more Blu-Ray authoring apps come along.

And there may already be some out there, but again the question is, how much can you do with them? I suspect their Blu-Ray authoring abilities are even less "complete" than DVD Architect's DVD authoring features were when it first hit the scene.

Rob
JohnnyRoy wrote on 9/25/2006, 7:20 AM
> From the description JohnnyRoy posted, it sounds like ULead's software is strictly a burning tool -- ie, you can write a file to a Blu-Ray disc, and that's pretty much it.

Yea, I searched the Ulead site but I didn’t find information on this so we could see what the capabilities are. The point is that applications are getting certified for Blu-ray and they will probably cost the same as they do today. Just because the high-end apps have it first doesn’t mean it won’t be available to everyone in their favorite DVD authoring apps.

~jr
bStro wrote on 9/25/2006, 7:50 AM
Just because the high-end apps have it first doesn’t mean it won’t be available to everyone in their favorite DVD authoring apps.

Of course it doesn't. They'll have them eventually, just as DVD Architect probably will eventually. My point is that there is a lot of hand-wringing going on (not you, just in general) about Vegas+DVD not supporting Blu-Ray now. And the examples of applications with Blu-Ray support that people list, are not all they're cracked up to be.

Until everyone's favorite DVD authoring app can offer Blu-Ray authoring capabilities, I don't see a whole lot of point in those apps offering Blu-Ray burning support. (Edit: Let me amend that -- I can see the interest, even the point in it. What I don't see is the need to have the burning support in a DVD authoring app can't can't author Blu-Ray features. From the looks of other apps, it just doesn't seem like Blu-Ray authoring is ready for the consumer / prosumer level.) And I really can't picture DVD Architect offering it (Blu-Ray burning) until then. Vegas seems to be a non-issue to me since it never burned DVDs, either. I'm just sayin', people should hold off on the hand-wringing until Sony is actually dragging their feet rather than waiting out the storm. :-) (Sorry, mixed metaphor.)

Anyhow, given DVD Architect's track record as a burning app, why would anyone want to risk a $15 Blu-Ray disc in it? ;-)

Rob