SOT: Sony Do Studio BD Authoring
Kimberly
wrote on 5/5/2012, 9:13 PM
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PixelStuff
wrote on 5/5/2012, 9:26 PM
I guess it's better than charging royalties on every copy sold. But not much better.
AtomicGreymon
wrote on 5/6/2012, 12:26 AM
Cheaper than a Blu-Print license, anyway, and Blu-Print also needs to be coupled with Blu-Code and DualStream 3D for AVC and MVC encoding, respectively. DoStudio 3D Complete gives you authoring and encoding (and Z Depth) all for around $20,000; not a bad deal if you truly require such software.
As for MVC encoding of 3-D content, I imagine there'll be (if there aren't already) free, high-quality alternatives soon enough. H.264 encoding was restricted by cost and hardware requirements in the beginning, as well; but these days we've got excellent encoding options like x264.
I hope that some of the lower-end features eventually make their way in to DVD Architect, because even for a consumer/prosumer level disc authoring application it's lagging far behind in terms of features. It can't compete with Adobe Encore at the moment, and I assume that gap will increase even more with the upcoming CS6. I've seen it said that it wouldn't be feasible to include something like Blu-Ray's pop-up menu feature in DVD Architect because BD-J licensing is prohibitively expensive, but similarly-priced applications such Encore, and even cheaper ones like TMPGEnc Authoring Works seem to offer this feature.
As for MVC encoding of 3-D content, I imagine there'll be (if there aren't already) free, high-quality alternatives soon enough. H.264 encoding was restricted by cost and hardware requirements in the beginning, as well; but these days we've got excellent encoding options like x264.
I hope that some of the lower-end features eventually make their way in to DVD Architect, because even for a consumer/prosumer level disc authoring application it's lagging far behind in terms of features. It can't compete with Adobe Encore at the moment, and I assume that gap will increase even more with the upcoming CS6. I've seen it said that it wouldn't be feasible to include something like Blu-Ray's pop-up menu feature in DVD Architect because BD-J licensing is prohibitively expensive, but similarly-priced applications such Encore, and even cheaper ones like TMPGEnc Authoring Works seem to offer this feature.
Lucius Snow
wrote on 5/7/2012, 5:53 PM
No pop-up menus, No DTS, no BDCMF ... DVD-Architect is definitely not made for Blu-Ray.
PeterDuke
wrote on 5/7/2012, 6:38 PM
And the skip chapter function using remote control with Blu-ray disc is broken once you leave the first menu (except by playing) with Panasonic players.