The Digital Guy blog

I'll be on the Digital Production Buzz tomorrow (Thursday) with Larry Jordan and Michael Horton discussing the new "quick" Blu-ray features in Final Cut Studio 3, as well as BRAND NEW IDMA Blu-ray replication deals created especially for indie producers. These deals allow creation of 1000 retail-ready Blu-ray discs at unbeliveable prices, and with AACS licensing details administered by the replicator. Check out the show tomorrow...  

If you're a Mac Blu-ray disc author, and have been wondering how you can create a BD CMF master folder for Blu-ray replication, well wonder no more.

BluStreak Premaster was introduced at NAB 2009's FCPUG SuperMeet, and sneak-previewed at the IDMA Blu-ray day at NAB PPWC. It is yet another innovative program from the fertile programming mind of Larry Applegate, father of "DVD After Edit".

BluStreak Premaster allows you to convert a Mac-authored BDMV project that would ordinarily only be publishable on BD- or DVD- recordable media into BD CMF form, so it can be delivered to a Blu-ray replicator for mass publication on BD-ROM or as a BD on DVD-ROM.

Well, it's been an interesting NAB 2009, that's for sure...

While it was a little low-key as far as Blu-ray was concerned, one VERY interesting development was the introduction of BluStreak Premaster  a new Mac program that allows replication of Blu-ray projects created on a Mac with Adobe Encore CS3/4 or Roxio Toast 10.

BluStreak Premaster is the latest brainchild of Larry Applegate, the programmer responsible for DVD After Edit. It's the first program in a planned series of BluStreak products.