Reader Nobi from Italy recently requested a tutorial on how to make menus without the use of the .scenarist.Designer file. I suggested he make one and offered to host it here for him, and that’s what he did.
If anyone else is interested in making tutorials, I’d be happy to post them here for you.
So without further [...]

Sonic released Scenarist HDMV 4.5.2 yesterday. It looks mostly like bug fixes, but here’s what’s new from their readme:
Scenarist HDMV 4.5.2 includes the following enhancements: 
• Video start time is now editable via the Properties window. 
Note: After you add a video asset to a Clip, the start time is no longer editable. 
• PG streams can be [...]

Some non Blu-ray news for once. Digital-Rapids has finally released their 2.5 version of their Stream software that was announced way back in April at NAB. They seem to always announce their software and then wait a few months before actually making it available.
For those of you who don’t know about Digital-Rapids (which is probably everyone), [...]

Sonic has a new article up on their knowledge base called “How-to Author Multi-Angle in BD”. It shows you how to do exactly what you think. I don’t think we’ve ever done this in DVD, so I’m not sure if we’ll run into this much in BD either, but at least they have some info [...]

I’ve been emailing with a guy named Ryan who has been having some issues getting designer to work. On such issue occurred on exporting the HDMV files that said “Saving Palette Failed”. I wasn’t able to help him, but he responded back with a solution, so I thought I’d post it.
He said it looks like the file [...]