Blu-Ray Authoring
It’s an almost relentless question… can DVD Studio Pro create Blu-Ray discs?
Nope. DVDSP is a standard definition authoring tool, or HD DVD authoring only. Since HD DVDs are effectively dead in the water (the winner in the high definition DVD battle was Blu-Ray) there is pretty much no point creating them. There are no players that will play them, apart from a few computers here and there.
Some people have had success with HD content on a standard def disc – the principle is that you create the HD material and encode at HD bitrates, but write it to a SD disc. This works in some players, but not all. The sadder news is that DVDSP just won’t create Blu-Ray at all…
Steve Jobs has been quoted to say something along the lines of Blu-Ray licensing being a ‘world of pain’. I guess this means we won’t be seeing anything like a Blu-Ray authoring environment from Apple anytime soon. For now, then, any HD content you want to make into Blu-Ray will cost you big bucks to get done through a bureau, however there are more and more Blu-Ray burners appearing on the market, and thus some attempts at Blu-Ray authoring applications. All of them on PCs.
And I’ve just noticed that this post is exactly one year on from the previous! I really ought to get a few more tutorials done soon!
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