What Blu-ray UHD encoder Hollywood uses - Blu-ray Forum

renegadeviking · 02-11-2021, 09:32 PM

I expect Hollywood is using a hardware HEVC encoder PCI-E card for authoring UHD blurays. I don't know which one. Are they using X265 or DivX?

chip75 · 02-11-2021, 09:51 PM

Different studios use different houses to author UHDs, some of the software is proprietary like Pixelogic's. There's probably a combination of custom rigs and Windows set-ups.

gkolb · 02-12-2021, 12:44 AM

Here's a post from today about CODEC's.
Perhaps what you want is here.

https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread...s#post18613138

Rik1138 · 02-12-2021, 08:59 PM

No, not using hardware that I've seen. The last hardware video encoder I ever saw was Sony encoder used for DVD that could encode video real-time directly from Digi-beta tapes.

(But there probably were others...)
Blu-ray has pretty much only been software.

For UHD, Ateme Titan is a popular one:
https://www.scenarist.com/ateme-titan-landing/

Cinema Craft Ultra is probably the other most-used:
https://www.siliconphilosophies.com/...s/cinema-craft

Sony might have a proprietary one as well.

That's just video encoding.
Authoring is largely done on Scenarist UHD
https://www.scenarist.com/suhd-landing/

or KITE from DVD Logic:
https://dvd-logic.com/kite

(And again, Sony probably has a system too, like Blueprint)

02-11-2021, 09:32 PM	#1
renegadeviking Special Member Member since:Jun 2011 Location:Minnesota 4K collection:852 Blu-ray collection:5113 DVD collection:956	What Blu-ray UHD encoder Hollywood uses I expect Hollywood is using a hardware HEVC encoder PCI-E card for authoring UHD blurays. I don't know which one. Are they using X265 or DivX?

02-11-2021, 09:51 PM	#2
chip75 Blu-ray Grand Duke Top contributor Member since:Oct 2010 Location:Wales 4K collection:304 Blu-ray collection:3100 DVD collection:1782 iTunes collection:230 Trading Score:9	Different studios use different houses to author UHDs, some of the software is proprietary like Pixelogic's. There's probably a combination of custom rigs and Windows set-ups.

02-12-2021, 12:44 AM	#3
gkolb Blu-ray Samurai Top contributor Member since:Feb 2012 Location:Bakersfield, CA 4K collection:979 Blu-ray collection:2941 DVD collection:273	Here's a post from today about CODEC's. Perhaps what you want is here. https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread...s#post18613138

02-12-2021, 08:59 PM	#4
Rik1138 Special Member Top contributor Member since:Aug 2008 Location:L.A., CA 4K collection:44 Blu-ray collection:313 DVD collection:128 Digital collection:20 iTunes collection:1533 Trading Score:11	No, not using hardware that I've seen. The last hardware video encoder I ever saw was Sony encoder used for DVD that could encode video real-time directly from Digi-beta tapes. (But there probably were others...) Blu-ray has pretty much only been software. For UHD, Ateme Titan is a popular one: https://www.scenarist.com/ateme-titan-landing/ Cinema Craft Ultra is probably the other most-used: https://www.siliconphilosophies.com/...s/cinema-craft Sony might have a proprietary one as well. That's just video encoding. Authoring is largely done on Scenarist UHD https://www.scenarist.com/suhd-landing/ or KITE from DVD Logic: https://dvd-logic.com/kite (And again, Sony probably has a system too, like Blueprint)

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