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Blu Ray Authoring in Studio Pro
Hi All,
Has Apple made any progress with Blu Ray authoring in Studio Pro, or have they given up on it?.
John Higgs. -
18 Replies
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There are a LOT of people that would love to know the answer to that question!! Me included!
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Well, in his Macworld keynote last year Steve Jobs said that licensing BluRay is “a world of hurt.” That should tell you something.
Shane
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We have been authoring BluRay discs for about 18 months now. First we tried Adobe Encore CS3, would never recommend that. Now we have DoStudio from NetBlender. This is a PC only app so we picked up a really nice HP workstation just to run this software.
The big advantage of this software is that it is commercial spec so we can send off our BluRay masters to a commercial replication house if necessary. Also NetBlender has an awesome “pay as you go” monthly license structure.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media
HD and SD Production for Broadcast and Independent Productions.STOP STARING AND START GRADING WITH APPLE COLOR Apple Color Training DVD available now!
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Jeez, I just looked at the pricing for DoStudio. I can believe it’s good software if you say so, Walter, but it’s way too expensive for me as I try to dip my toe into Blu-Ray. No way I can justify that expense yet. Hopefully, in the long run it will be a reasonable business expense for me.
Is there, in fact, a way (i.e. software) that provides a less expensive way to dip a toe into Blu-Ray authoring?
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Hey Wally, I was looking at the software just now, and why didn’t you just put together a boot camp setup?
Jerry
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[Shane Ross] “Well, in his Macworld keynote last year Steve Jobs said that licensing BluRay is “a world of hurt.””
And look what happened to him… He knew what he was talking about.
David Roth Weiss
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[Ron Craig] “Jeez, I just looked at the pricing for DoStudio. I can believe it’s good software if you say so, Walter, but it’s way too expensive for me as I try to dip my toe into Blu-Ray. No way I can justify that expense yet. Hopefully, in the long run it will be a reasonable business expense for me.”
This is why they offer a monthly license fee. If you only have one or two projects in the pipeline, you can rent the license for a month, and drop it until you have your next Blu-Ray project. IOW, you pay for it when you need it, and you don’t pay for it when you don’t need it.
BTW, there are many video/film software titles that offer this type of “pay for what you need” licensing, including some of the most expensive VFX software & plugin titles. It makes otherwise “unaffordable” software very affordable.
And if you don’t think that you can make enough profit to cover the $395 for a one month rental, then either you need to charge more for Blu-Ray, or your clients don’t need Blu-Ray. Blu-Ray is more expensive than DVD in every way. The blank disks cost more, the encoding software costs more and the authoring software costs more. It makes sense that you should charge more for authoring under those conditions.
Arnie
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If all you need is simple one-offs for clients, check out Toast 9 or 10, along with the Roxio HD plug-in. With that you can do basic authoring with simple chapters, and even burn short HD projects to regular DVD-R media that will play in full HD on Blu-Ray players.
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[Ron Craig] “Jeez, I just looked at the pricing for DoStudio. I can believe it’s good software if you say so, Walter, but it’s way too expensive for me as I try to dip my toe into Blu-Ray. No way I can justify that expense yet. Hopefully, in the long run it will be a reasonable business expense for me. “
It’s only $250/month with a pay as you go structure. Meaning that if you want to use it for 1 month, you pay $250. Then when you want to use it again, you pay another $250.
It’s $8,000 or something like that if you want to buy it outright, but even I haven’t done that.
Oh and they have a full 30 day trial, free. Fully functional so you can dip your toe in for 30 days for nothing.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media
HD and SD Production for Broadcast and Independent Productions.STOP STARING AND START GRADING WITH APPLE COLOR Apple Color Training DVD available now!
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[Jerry Hofmann] “Hey Wally, I was looking at the software just now, and why didn’t you just put together a boot camp setup?”
Not recommended. There are a few people doing that, but NetBlender offers zero guarantee that it will operate on a Mac running Windows XP. The fully loaded HP was only $1,500 including the BluRay burner. Can barely get a basic MacBook for that! 🙂
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media
HD and SD Production for Broadcast and Independent Productions.STOP STARING AND START GRADING WITH APPLE COLOR Apple Color Training DVD available now!
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