3 posts tagged “blu-ray”
Dave Helmly at Adobe has written a great article about the workflow and experience of using the latest (yet to be released) versions of the video tools from Adobe to take HDV footage and create a Blu-ray disc.
http://blogs.adobe.com/davtechtable/2007/05/working_with_encore_cs3_and_bl.html
It is very encouraging to see that the new software applications are going to make more use of multiple cores. The blog also gives an insight as to why only Blu-ray is currently supported. One can only hope that either the format war ends soon or more HD DVD burners become available and Encore is extended to support HD DVD as well.
Dave Helmly at Adobe has written a great article about the workflow and experience of using the latest (yet to be released) versions of the video tools from Adobe to take HDV footage and create a Blu-ray disc.
http://blogs.adobe.com/davtechtable/2007/05/working_with_encore_cs3_and_bl.html
It is very encouraging to see that the new software applications are going to make more use of multiple cores. The blog also gives an insight as to why only Blu-ray is currently supported. One can only hope that either the format war ends soon or more HD DVD burners become available and Encore is extended to support HD DVD as well.
This is a great article about how you can easily and cheaply create HD DVD and/or Blu-ray content.
I hadn't appreciated that HD DVD players would accept HD content on standard DVDs. That does give them a big advantage from a cost entry point over the Blu-ray camp. That said, you are limited to about 30 minutes per layer but that isn't too bad, particularly if you are involved in relatively short content like weddings.
The downside is that I think it is still far too early. It is all very well for early adopters to go & spend lots of money on this equipment but there is too much uncertainty over which format, if any, is going to be supreme. If you are in the market of supplying video, you need equipment to check that your content plays back, which currently means a lot of money.
I don't subscribe to the theory that it is all too late and people are going to end up downloading material. The infrastructure isn't there and where would all that content be stored in the home? Where would you keep your downloaded wedding video?
No, I think that optical media has a place in the market - it is just that the market can't decide which format to go with.
