BluStreak Blu-ray Software

BluStreak Premaster is a Macintosh application that creates the premastering folders and files required for replicating Blu-ray discs with mandatory AACS encryption. The output from any Blu-ray authoring application, on any platform, can be used as input. The simple interface give control over the physical file placement and layer break, and burns to recordable media honoring the chosen layer break.

The process is simple: In the authoring application, output a Blu-ray disc image or BDMV folder. In BluStreak Premaster, create a new job and choose the image or folder as its source. A job window is displayed, showing default values for the master disc volume name (taken from the source), the authoring studio (your company) and the author (you), which you may edit as you wish. The window also shows a list of the files in the order in which they will appear on the disc, plus some additional summary information about the source image or folder.

For dual-layer output, you will find a layer break entry at the end of the files, which you will drag upwards until the red icon in the lower right corner disappears. You may need to rearrange the files as was done in the screen dump on this page to obtain a legal layer break.

The final step is to export the content to a BDCMF folder on hard drive or BD-recordable media. This hard drive or disc is then delivered to a replication facility for the mastering process.

A similar workflow allows you to create a new job directly from the output of any AVCHD camera, such as the Canon HF100. This job may be used as if it were created from a Blu-ray authoring system to burn a recordable disc. This workflow eliminates all re-encoding, but the resulting video and audio will play without menus.

Typically you would save a BluStreak Premaster job for possible re-use, since it contains the configuration used for export. This takes very little time and space, as the job contains a reference to the source content, not a copy of it.

BluStreak Premaster also burns directly to both single and dual-layer recordable media for playback in Blu-ray players, including BD-R, BD-RE, and the various flavors of DVD+R, +RW, -R and -RW. In addition, it can recover content from existing recorded disc media, provided that the content is not encrypted.