Blu-Disc Studio Lite - Java Blu Ray Authoring

[at800]

This is freeware version of Blu-Disc Studio.

http://blu-disc.net/download/BDS_Lite_Setup_1.0_2.exe

- Ability to create a main menus, popup menus and movies.
- Maximum of 4 audio and subtitle tracks in movies (max 32).
- Menu designer with the ability to use the full-color images (PNG 32-bit).
- Importing PSD-files.
- Ability to create scenes (playmarks)
- Automatically create a scene selection menu with presets.
- Ability to assign actions to up/down/left/right and Enter [OK]
- Auto-assignment of transitions between the buttons.
- Assign sounds to buttons.
- Highlighting the current audio and subtitle tracks.
- Highlighting the current chapter.
- Assigning multiple actions to a single button (multiaction).
- Menu simulation (preview of the menu)
- Mux project into the Blu-ray compliant folder structure using tsMuxer.

You need to download ffprobe (from ffmpeg http://ffmpeg.zeranoe.com/builds/) and tsmuxer (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=168539) and specify it in the program options to be able to mux the project.

Simple menu without video/audio tracks: http://blu-disc.net/download/Test.rar (5,2 Mb). Unzip to the C:\Test.

Video and audio tracks for simple menu http://blu-disc.net/download/DEMO_menu_Movie.zip (474 Mb). Unzip to the C:\Test\Movie.

[avih]

Here's a link to a comparison between the versions: http://blu-disc.net/versions.html

Notice that the lite/free is version 1 while the payed versions are 2.

(I'm completely unrelated to that site, but I visited it before approving this post which was tagged as spam by default).

[at800]

lite/free is version 1, because it has functionality which the paid had in version 1

both of them are based on the same source code

[filler56789]

Hopefully at800 will feel like giving an answer to this question:

http://forum.videohelp.com/threads/366644-FREE-Lite-Blu-Disc-Studio?p=2341707#post2341707

[mariner]

Greetings at800. Thanks for the link.

Would you know if seamless branching, ie multiple m2ts in single playlist is supported?

Thanks and best regards.

[at800]

At the moment seamless always used for menu playlist.

[Ghitulescu]

Any particular tsmuxer version?

[at800]

Theoretically, any version. We tested only with the last.

[deklerkt]

It took a while to become familiar with Blu Disc Studio (Lite) as it is quite flexible but in being that, also requires you to do a lot yourself rather than via wizard-does-all.

A silent video tutorial is found on YouTube that may make no sense if you watch it without background knowledge. I made a written guide to go along with it, once I understood what it was trying to show. You can get the latest edition by emailing me at theo de klerk@gmx com (with dots on spaces).

[Ghitulescu]

Why not linking it here, or elsewhere?

[deklerkt]

The guide is meanwhile part of the BluDisc Studio downloads. I haven't got a web place of my own to let it be downloaded from there. A much larger guide on the V4.1 BDS Standard/Mx is in the making. To appear on the BDS website also (and no, I don't work for them, just use it)

[UHD 4 Everyone]

Honestly I've authored some great stuff with BDS Lite. I did a trial of the UHD version and it was all over the place in terms of actually working :( .

But I do believe BDS lite is better and more flexible than Adobe Encore at least menu wise.