Blu-Ray support

John_Cline wrote on 3/15/2007, 8:40 AM

No

donwidener wrote on 3/15/2007, 9:05 PM

John,
I think with the Blu-print licensing set at $50k sony has no incentive to provide blu-ray support for DVDA. The Cyberlink software that comes with the sony burner really stinks. I can burn blue ray discs (without menus) but they will only play in a play station 3. Heck,I can burn a m2t stream on a regular4.7 GB DVD and it will play (in high definition) on the ps3 and looks GREAT! I can also burn the video as data discs with Nero just as good as the software provided with the drive. It looks like if Sony will sell me a burner, they would support me with software.

DVDit PRO HD will do everything I need including menus, but why should I have to pay $500 for software to burn only HD when I have already paid for VEGAS+DVD. Oh well........

DataMeister wrote on 5/17/2007, 10:08 AM

I just noticed this...
http://www.dtsonline.com/pro-audio/3rd.php

On the the DTS 3rd party product list. Down at the bottom is Sony Creative Software. And it talks about Blu-print software development though you can't tell if it's for DVD-A (most logical) or a separate stand alone software.

Sweet.

bStro wrote on 5/17/2007, 10:19 AM

Blu-print is a separate program, completely unreleated to DVD Architect. It costs $50,000.

If and when Sony adds Blu-Ray support to DVD Architect or releases a new application in the same league as DVDA, it will not be nearly as advanced as Blu-print.

Rob

DataMeister wrote on 5/20/2007, 9:47 PM

Whew. $50k per license. I guess for that price range you would expect to have all the standard codecs that a client could want.

Funny though, when I google Sony Blu-Print I get hundreds of news sites reporting the release of Blu-Print over half a year ago, but can't find an official web page on a Sony server with specifics.

I thought this hit was interesting. http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=125809
Maybe someone over here knows the answer. I know I have no clue.

ScottW wrote on 5/21/2007, 5:55 AM

Try the "software" link at the top of the page.

http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/products/bluprint.asp

There's no need to put a lot of specifics out, since they are only interested in people with $50,000.

I have used the blu-print template to create some content that I viewed on a Toshiba HD DVD player hooked up to a 1080p display - looked great, well, fantastic. Hard to say why the doom9 person got poor results - could have been the material they started with, could be their display, could be any number of things.

For myself, I'm not going to worry about BD support for now, especially when I can do content up to 46 minutes on a DVD that costs $2.50 compared with BD which sets me back $30. If I can ever get Sonic's DVDit HD to install on my machine and run, I might think about playing with BD authoring, but it's low on my list.

--Scott

TheHappyFriar wrote on 5/21/2007, 6:14 AM

Funny though, when I google Sony Blu-Print I get hundreds of news sites reporting the release of Blu-Print over half a year ago, but can't find an official web page on a Sony server with specifics.

That's because of the way Google handles searches. They don't actually look for the most relevant term "X", they're looking for the most people click on/popular. Happens all the time to me (try searching for specific things that are in blogs & you get HUNDREDS of blogs but no actual website. Use Yahoo instead to search for specific things).

Look at the system req's. it's not a very flexible program, system req's wise, & apparently uses the GPU.

But why get a $500 separate BD program when you already have DVDA? Because Sony put the Madison guys on a $50,000 program & didn't bother with us yet, that's why. :)

GeorgeW wrote on 5/21/2007, 7:06 AM

A few months ago Roxio sent me an email offer to purchase DVDiT ProHD for ~$199 (download version, and the link still works). Anyone here get that email and use the coupon code -- was it the FULL or Upgrade-only version? I don't have anything to upgrade from, but there's no mention in the email that it's just an "UPGRADE" (i.e. it appears to be the FULL version for download -- I just want to make sure). I also sent them an email to get some clarification, but haven't heard back yet...

ScottW wrote on 5/21/2007, 8:48 AM

It's labeled as an upgrade, but is a complete kit. I had one last machine that I hadn't tried to install it on, and it installed fine, and amazingly appears to be functional.

If you have the regular version installed, the "upgrade" will first uninstall it.

--Scott

tstaples wrote on 5/22/2007, 8:58 AM

After reading your post, I have some questions if you don't mind. I recently bought a Sony HD Camcorder that uses the AVCHD format. I updated my Vegas to 7.0e and now I can get and work on the video. You mentioned using the 'blu-print' template to create content, is this within Vegas? Also, how did you author this, using DVD Architect? I am new at this and probably sound somewhat unsure of the process for HD.

Thank you for any help you can provide.

Tim

ScottW wrote on 5/22/2007, 11:01 AM

The blu-print template is one of the templates available when you render MPEG-2 video from Vegas.

DVDA does not support HD authoring for either HD DVD or Blu Ray. Given that this is Sony, it will probably support Blu Ray at some point, but at what point is anyones guess.

If you want to author HD DVD content on a single or dual layer DVD, you can use Ulead's MovieFactory 6 Plus - you will need to create an MPEG template to match the output from the BluPrint template.

if you want to author Blu Ray, you'll need something like Roxio's DVDit Pro HD.

The only thing I'm aware of that will let you author DVD, HD DVD and BD all in the same package is DoStudio 6; it's a subscription service and the BD support is just starting to go into beta. http://www.dvd1one.net/network/content/home/default.asp

--Scott