One of the new features included with Adobe Creative Suite 3 Production Premium is the ability to author Blu-ray DVDs using Encore. Digital Content Producer has posted a tutorial that takes you through the steps involved in creating a Blu-ray disc using Premiere Pro CS3 and Encore CS3. For Final Cut Pro users, the author includes a blurb on how to get Blu-ray compatible files from FCP into Encore.
One other interesting tidbit:
Encore doesn’t enable the full range of Blu-ray authoring capabilities such as Java support, pop-up menus and interactive content with interactive graphics, or support for 50GB dual-layer titles. Rather, it simply extends Encore’s DVD-related design features to Blu-ray, producing single-layer BDMV Blu-ray Discs with motion menus, buttons, and the like. For the record, a single-layer Blu-ray Disc should hold about 130 minutes or so of video, which should be fine for most corporate and event videographers.
