A Instant Manual To Blank Bluray And Disk Burning.

At the moment that you have finished your High definition film editing - what exactly is the best thing to do then? Run of the mill Dvd-r discs are only going to give you standard definition output, you might reduce your high def recording to SD quality and then go make standard Dvd discs. If you are going to do that it will have been a waste of time video recording it in high definition in the beginning.

As a result what should you do? The answer must be to use a high definition disc like blu-ray blank. Now that the format war has finished it is blank blu-ray that has come to the forefront as the media of choice for high definition.

The bluray burning methods are gradually working their way into our daily lives and onto mainstream Home pc's. bluray recordable blank recordable media is technically far better-quality and much larger volume than normal DVDR. Single layer bluray discs can hold 25GB with dual layer discs providing fifty gig. There are claims of blu-ray of 200GB to arrive soon!

bluray was intended to play High definition film and to give forward-thinking features such as alternative endings, directors commentaries, image in picture etc - something that is not possible with regular DVD which are based on the MPEG2 video format. The video on blu-ray disks can be in either MPEG2, H264 (more progressive MPEG) or VC1 (a reworking of Windows Media). Buy a bluray movie off the shelf and odds are it will be in VC1 or H264. The H264 formats advantage is that you can fit extra on a single disc. high definition MPEG2 on single layer BD-R disk can give roughly 2 hours of recording, use H264 and you can anticipate up to 3 hours at the same quality. H264 will take roughly 3 times as long to encode though!

Now you are going to need a very high spec PC before you start encoding High definition though. blu-ray disc burners are now sensibly priced and are dropping quite quickly, nowadays you can buy one for below £100 from UK web merchants. Single layer (25GB) writeable media and blank recordable bluray disks now as low as £1.30 each so we will before long see the sub £1 blank bluray. Once the media retail prices fall this will spur the pirates to become interested in copying blu-ray content and in turn this will grow the market quickly.

The Sony Ps3 is the most popular way to get to watch a bluray film as it has a bluray rom built in. Decent stand alone players will set you back between £100 and £150 - the most affordable solution is of course to buy a bluray rom for your Computer - now less than forty quid!

My favourite authoring computer software is Sonic DVDit Pro High definition, other accepted alternatives include Adobe Encore and Sony DVD Architect. All will help you compose a blu-ray disk with all the extended features you would want including menus, adding subtitles, numbering scenes etc.. It is also doable to author simple bluray discs with applications like Nero and Power DVD and they are a hell of alot cheaper than the high end software previously mentioned, but the limitiations are evident and will only turn out basic playback discs.

Then comes the question that matters - will my blu-ray high definition content now play on anybodies blu-ray player? Unfortunately there isn't a clear answer just yet and its a bit of a suck it and see approach. Hollywood has complete paranoia about piracy, they do not want the DVD occurrence all over again! This means they are making it as difficult as feasible to copy proper blu-ray movies disks on to blank bluray. Now that you are filming in hd you ought to really try the new encoding and storage devices - even for the fact that it will provide you the utmost quality backup of your footage obtainable for passing on onto future media devices - who knows what we will be using in 10 years time, could it yet be the blank bluray we are starting to take up now?

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