HELP! New to Blu ray authoring.

[Gordz]

Hi
Is there a guide on how to author Blu ray. Is there any one click software around to do it?
Thanks for any help.

[shon3i]

You need simple authoring (muxing) or full creation menus, extras etc?

In first case you have almost one click soution called SmartLabs TsMuxer. In second case you will need some of very expensive comercial apps like Sonic Scenarist, Sony Blu-Code and etc... or even you can try free multiAVCHD which have nice result aslo in simple menu creation

[brunersany]

I think Adobe's product: Adobe Premiere or Adobe Encore can author Blu Ray. I found a guide about it on Videomaker's site: http://www.videomaker.com/article/14211/. It gives the detail on this issue, and contains step-by-step information. Hope can be helpful for you.

[Ghitulescu]

Authoring and 1click do not rhyme.

You can copy, delete, burn etc. files with 1click software but you can't author something with 1click software. Because authoring needs a bit of creativity ... which is probably the last human thing we may have against "the machines".

If by "authoring" you mean "burn a video file to a BDR that can be seen on a BD player", yes there are 2click or 3click softwares like tsmuxer or multiavchd.

[wswartzendruber]

What about for creating Profile 3.0 discs? Those don't have menus, do they?

[Eric69]

There are no Profile 3 authoring tools.

[wswartzendruber]

There are no Profile 3 authoring tools.
There have to be some somewhere because you see audio-only Blu-rays on Amazon now.

Is there a special file somewhere that contains the disc's profile level, or do I just not mux my discs with video?

[Eric69]

Those are just titles that were authored HDMV containing high quality audio.

[wswartzendruber]

But what actually defines a Profile 3.0 disc? Is there some flag that gets set somewhere on the disc? Or do you just master a disc without a menu stream? Are there any specs available?

[Eric69]

Don't know. Never seen the profile 3.0 specs or any authoring tool...nor have I seen it in discussion anywhere.

Shouldn't really matter. HDMV will handle all the same formats and bit rates.

[deank]

But what actually defines a Profile 3.0 disc? Is there some flag that gets set somewhere on the disc? Or do you just master a disc without a menu stream? Are there any specs available?

It defines that such blu-ray player should accept a blu-ray disc and play it. If there is a menu or extra features, it should be able to 'skip' them and play the main title/playlist/etc...

[wswartzendruber]

It defines that such blu-ray player should accept a blu-ray disc and play it. If there is a menu or extra features, it should be able to 'skip' them and play the main title/playlist/etc...
Holy cow! Somebody has an answer! :thanks:

So what you're saying is that profiles define players and not discs? Because I've read that 2.0 BDMVs will play in 1.1 players. So in other words, just master the disc without video or menus and things will be hunky dory?

[deank]

Yes, better without menus. Still I don't know how you will author one without a video track :)

The best way (the one multiAVCHD uses) is to use blank/black video, which occupies just few megabytes of storage - this way your disc will be compatible with all players.

As far as I remember about profile 3.0 players is that they have very basic navigation capabilities - that's why the disc must be authored in such fashion (without the need of menu navigation/options), but with only Title search, next/prev title (song), next/prev chapter, fast forward, rewind options.

Dean :)