Mastering for Blu-ray

[Sean4000]

Hello everyone,

I'm Sean Burns, a VFX artist, entry-level film editor, and computer guru from New Orleans. This forum has been quite valuable for its wealth of information on digital video technology; especially on the new HD formats. With much delight I can say to everyone that I have chosen Sony's Blu-ray as my high-def format of choice. This is based off of storage sizes and market share amongst other factors. I believe that Blu-ray will win out over "HD-DUD" in the near future. When Micro$oft is defeated I will jump for joy.

I'm a much better FX guy than I am editor at the moment and need some software help. Computers are forever a part of graphics creation and I'm primarily on the Linux side of things. Being the technical build-it-yourself guy I am, I hardly ever use pre-build PCs. My programs, Maya, Nuke, Shake, blender, Lustre, Pixel, Cinepaint, GIMP etc are all native to Linux so I've rarely had to look elsewhere for software. Until now. I cannot find an application for Linux or PC that can master for Blu-ray. That is why I am here.

My Linux box is lightyears faster than my Avid editing PC so I would prefer the software be run on that.

Strangely I saw no need to use Apple's Mac platform in all of this. Although I have heard many great things about them. How much of that was the legendary Apple fanatical rhetoric I don't know but, they seem alright to me.

Specs:
Linux box:
16GB DDR2 SDRAM
2 Quad Core Barcelona CPUs
2 8800GT PCI-E-2 video cards
Areca RAID controler card
3X 500GB WD HDDs
8GB Solid State Hard Disks
DVD-RW SATA drive
Xubuntu Linux 64bit

Avid Chop box
XP Pro 32
1GB DDR 3200
160GB SATA WD HDD
AMD Athlon XP3200
DVD-RW IDE drive

I know I'll have to buy a Blu-ray burner so any suggestions on that would be appreciated.

[WickyWoo]

Basic authoring is available through the current Adobe products and some more

Complex authoring is only available in pro packages that are not available to the general public yet

[Sean4000]

Originally Posted by WickyWoo

Basic authoring is available through the current Adobe products and some more

Complex authoring is only available in pro packages that are not available to the general public yet

Okay cool, this is a good start. I can run basically anything under WINE without the threat of a viral takedown.

Maybe one day I'll be working on TNG-Remastered