CDs & DVDs
Creating a BDCMF master with a $500 app!
No need to go out and purchase a $100,000 system to author your first Blu Ray project.
Let's face it, most independent producers who are thinking about venturing into the Blu Ray market for the first time, have enough up-front expenses to contend with - AACS content provider licenses spring immediately to mind.
When you start researching which software application you'll need to learn to produce a Blu ray master, you quickly see that many cost north of $50,000 - and paying someone to author for you costs at least $350/hour. The one's that are widely used by the high-end market are just too cost-prohibitive for the average guy/gal on the street to justify or afford.
At PacificDisc, we have always prided ourselves on the fact that the vast majority of our clients are independent producers. Indeed, we have optimized our services, over the years, to assist newbies with disc replication and continue to work hard to take the mystery out of the entire process. So, imagine our delight when we found out about Roxio's (used to be Sonic) DVDit® Pro HD software - which costs only $499.
DVDit® Pro HD can output a CMF fileset for BD25's or BD50's - both with AACS, suitable for use by us for replication. According to the sales blurb posted on Sonic's website "DVDit® Pro HD is a professional, studio-caliber DVD & Blu ray disc authoring tool for videographers, independent filmmakers, corporate users and video enthusiasts"
What this means to us is that finally there is a reliable and inexpensive solution to master Blu Ray projects. And take it from us - it works!
DVDit® Pro HD features include:
- Create SD DVDs and HD Blu-ray Discs from the same project
- NEW! Create mixed aspect ratio, resolution (SD and HD), frame rate and video codec Blu-ray Discs
- NEW! Dual layer BD-50 Blu-ray disc burning and mastering
- VBR HD MPEG-2 Transcoding at up to 40,000kbs for Blu-ray projects
- NEW! AVC pass-through for Blu-ray projects
- NEW! VC-1 pass-through for Blu-ray projects
- Minimum and Maximum Bit-rate Controls for DVD and Blu-ray Disc
- NEW! Include superior quality multi-channel (up to 7.1 channels) PCM on Blu-ray Discs
- Blu-ray Disc bit budget estimator
User Interface
The bottom line is that this solution works and won't break the bank. Heck, you can author SD DVDs with it too, so you might want to consider picking up a copy online.
Note: PacificDisc is not receiving any financial gain for this endorsement. We simply want to help you take your vision to market - and finding an affordable authoring platform which outputs the right formatted master should help.
Good luck out there - and call us if we can assist.
Morris Anderson - PacificDisc CEO