I made a few changes to the HDMV Flash Viewer. Here is the change log for those interested:
Version .12 – Made the menu center on the screen to create a “letterbox/pillarbox” effect
-Added variable named “f”. This is for framerate. Default is 24.
-Added variable named “s”. This is for Selected Loop. Default is True.
-Added variable named [...]

We are just starting to play around with subtitles for Blu-ray, and I found this free application that seems pretty cool. It’s called URUWorks Subtitle Workshop and it will open up a ton of different subtitle formats, and supports HDMV BDN subtitles exporting. I haven’t tried it yet besides a quick output test since we [...]

I’ve covered pretty much everything I initially wanted to go over regarding Blu-ray HDMV menu design. So my question is, is there anything that I went over too fast or didn’t go over that well? I would like to make some mini tutorials that wouldn’t be more than a couple minutes that would go over [...]

I decided to record a tutorial on how to author menus in Scenarist HDMV. I’m not really a great author, but this tutorial goes over importing video/audio/menus, menu navigation, creating clips, creating streams, muxing, and emulating.
Hopefully this will give you a good enough idea of how Blu-ray disc authoring works and maybe give you a [...]

Tutorial 5 is up, and this time we go over how to set up and use the HDMV Flash Viewer. It’s not super complicated, but does have a couple tricky steps. Basic knowledge of FTP and web sites is recommended.

I had a request for the PSDs for the tutorials, so I’m making them available. Links are under the videos, or you can download them here:
Tutorial 3 Project Files
Tutorial 4 Project Files
Enjoy!

It seems I missed a product at NAB called NetBlender DoStudio. For those with iPhones (like myself) NetBlender is the company who is creating the BD Touch app which allows for direct communication between the iPhone and BD players. The video they have of it is pretty cool.
DoStudio seems to be another authoring solution. I [...]

At NAB there was a company that is working with Sonic to create a Flash to BD-J Converter. I wrote a little about it in my blog, but I don’t think I gave enough information about it. I received this email from them which does a better job at describing the product:
“Dear Mr. Kroona
This is [...]

I released the first public version of the Blu-Ray HDMV Flash Viewer. It can be downloaded by following the link on the right. I’m planning on recording a short screencast that will show how to use/install it to your server in the next couple days.
For now, here’s a quick explanation on how to install. Just unzip [...]

I have a lot on Blu-ray, so it has it’s own post. Let’s start with Sonic.
Sonic
Sonic officially released 4.5 of Scenarist Blu-ray, though the authoring houses have had it for a few weeks now. It has a much better interface, an auto-route button feature, and a buffer percentage feature. I got a tour of the [...]

I just got back from wondering around the Las Vegas convention center and am a bit overwhelmed with the number of companies out there, especially the ones I don’t know what the even do. I mean, how many distribution/AVC Encoding/IPTV company’s do we need? But I thought I’d list what things I saw that I [...]

The fourth tutorial is here. In this tutorial I go over using After Effects and Photoshop to create animated buttons for Blu-ray HDMV. The menus we create are pretty simple, but using these procedures you can come up with very nice looking menus.
Tutorial five will be on using my Flash HDMV viewer to preview your [...]

I’ll be at NAB this Tuesday through Thursday. I plan on checking out a few things, but am most interested in-
Digital Rapids
Sonic Scenarist
Any Adobe Products
Cinamacraft
Sony XD Cam
Sony Blu-ray
Red Camera
Aja Kona
I’m hoping to see some new software and hardware from these products. I’ll try to take pictures and post anything cool I see. I know a [...]

My third tutorial is complete, again as a screencast. This time I show how to create a basic one page menu for Blu-ray HDMV. It’s a little longer than the last tutorial and goes much more in depth with Sonic Designer. The next tutorial will be on creating multi-page menus with animation using After Effects [...]

I’m going to be using Flash to play any videos or tutorials I have on this site, but I’ll be using H.264 compression instead of the normal FLV compression. What does this mean? First of all, it means better looking videos at lower bitrates with fullscreen and HD support. However it also means you need [...]