Warner authoring facility, selects Scenarist BD-J authoring CineVision AVC encoding

[Tekman]

Global Digital Media Xchange (A WANER COMPANY) Increases Blu-ray Disc Production Capacity With Sonic

Global Digital Media Xchange (GDMX), a key Hollywood authoring facility, has selected Sonic’s Scenarist HDMV and BD-J authoring and CineVision AVC video encoding systems to increase its Blu-ray Disc (BD) production capabilities.

The expansion makes GDMX one of the largest high-definition production facilities in the world and enables the company to address the increase in BD title releases from its major motion picture clients.

Sonic’s world-renowned Scenarist authoring systems offers a unique workflow that combines automated tasks and precision manual controls. This workflow approach enables professional content creators to automate standard authoring tasks, such as graphics output for menus, buttons, and navigation, which provides more time for implementing advanced-interactivity components in BD-Java. Sonic’s CineVision AVC encoding system has built a reputation for cinematic image quality and reliability. With detailed encoding parameters controllable on a segment level, CineVision produces a precise, high-quality AVC stream that will satisfy even the most discriminating encoding professionals in Hollywood.

“We are delighted that another world-class authoring facility has selected Scenarist and CineVision to increase its BD title output capabilities,” said Rolf Hartley, senior vice president and general manager of Sonic’s professional products group. “Many more movies will be released on Blu-ray Disc over the coming year and, as we have been through previous packaged media adoption cycles, Sonic will be at the forefront delivering the most advanced authoring and encoding technology available.”

[SquidPuppet]

Hopefully we will see improvements in Warner BDs.....yeah I know I am

[Bobby Henderson]

Does this news actually mean Warner Bros. will stop encoding its movies in lower bit rate Microsoft VC-1 encodings and do high bitrate MPEG-4 AVC instead?

I'm a little confused by this since this authoring facility probably has numerous clients for BD authoring projects.

[Sonny]

I'm screwed too, whats the deal...AVC is SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO 'perrrrdy' . God I hope the have woken up

[Blu Titan]

Like most of the forum members, I want high bitrate encodes for my BD's!

[Grubert]

Warner abandoning VC-1?

After the break: hell freezes over.

[jkwest]

Originally Posted by BlueNeon

Like most of the forum members, I want high bitrate encodes for my BD's!

Like "all" I think you meant to say...