I had a great conversation with a salesman at Sofatronic regarding their new authoring software called Kaleidoscope. There was some good information I learned about the product and thought I’d share them.
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Pricing Scheme: Pricing is very unique for this product. It’s a license scheme and instead of being by month/year like DoStudio, it’s on a [...]
I wish I had seen this a couple weeks ago, but I just ran across it. Fox, Sun, and enseQuence are having a contest to see who can create some cool little BD-J apps. Prizes include a HDTV, a Blu-ray Player, and some Fox titles.
The thing I’m most excited about this is you download a [...]
We had some strange buffer under run issues today, and I just thought I’d share.
I rendered out a video background with the H264 Blu-ray settings in After Effects, and when we tried to mux it we had a buffer under run error. We decided to export it out as an uncompressed quicktime and compress is [...]
I discovered something a little disappointing today. Apparently the H.264 encoder in After Effects and Premiere doesn’t make progressive download friendly files. When you put these on the web the entire file has to be downloaded before it starts playing instead of playing as soon as it buffers enough. Adobe says they are working on a bug fix which [...]
I was going to wait until Tuesday to post this, but I’ll be out of town without internet access, so I just wanted to post a quick reminder.
NetBlender will have their authoring solution, DoStudio, available for download on May 20th; at least according to their website. For those who don’t know, DoStudio looks to be a [...]
I’ve been receiving a few emails about questions on designing/authoring menus, and I am happy to answer them to the best of my ability. Pitney, if you are reading this I’m working on yours. One I got today asks:
If I have multiple pages in the (Scene Selection, Special Features) do I use the script to import them [...]
In tutorial 8 I explained how to burn a BD-R/BD-RE disc from Scenarist. Well what if you want to burn it to a DVD-R instead to save money on those BD discs? Well following the instructions from before won’t work in a PS3, though it worked fine in our S300 player.
So here’s what you do [...]
For those of you who have tried my HDMV Flash Viewer and use Firefox as your default browser you may have noticed the image was very small. About 200 pixels tall to be exact. This seems to be a bug in Firefox using 100% height with Flash.
Well, I finally found a solution. For those who [...]
In my last tutorial I showed a little Photoshop feature called Layer Comps that I’ve been using a lot for Blu-ray menus. Well there is a script in Photoshop called “Layer Comps to File” which automatically exports all the layer comps as a few different types of files. Unfortunately PNG isn’t one of the options. [...]
This is my 9th tutorial on Blu-ray authoring. This time we go over having multiple buttons per Button Overlay Group (BOG). Now why would you do that? I asked the same question when I first started designing menus with Designer.Â
The main reason is for toggling buttons. In the tutorial we have a subtitle On and [...]
We recently found burning BD-R and BD-RE discs for the PS3 is a little tricky, but I think we got it working pretty well. The Drag-to-Disc software that comes with Scenarist doesn’t do everything that you need it to do. Here’s a quick and dirty explanation on how to get it working:
Step 1: In your [...]
I got an email from a guy named Eric that suggested another WYSIWYG development tool called Sofatronic Kaleidoscope. They don’t have prices on their website that I could find, but Eric said it runs between $5,000 and $40,000 depending on which modules you purchase. Their demo mentions converting Flash to BD-J, which is something that [...]
So I know this may be in the “shady” area of authoring, but I think it’s something I should cover. We have a client who refuses to give us their logo in HD for the FirstTitle section of the disc. He says they don’t have one and want us to recreate it in HD. But [...]