Hollywood Standard Encoding with CineVision

The Choice of Hollywood
CineVision® is the #1 choice of Hollywood studios and professional authoring facilities around the world. No other encoder delivers the same pristine, crystal clear HD encoding quality demanded by the industry's leading encoding professionals.

Produce Stunning HD VC-1 and MPEG-2 Encodes
A professional looking Blu-ray Disc relies on many pieces coming together, but one aspect is paramount: stunning HD video. With CineVision you're assured of producing the same HD video quality enjoyed by professional authoring facilities the world over.

Comprehensive Blu-ray Disc and DVD Support
Unlike other encoders, CineVision has been developed during many years of industry leadership to focus on one single purpose - to deliver stunning video encodes for Blu-ray Disc and DVD. CineVision ensures you're fully equipped for all aspects of Blu-ray Disc and DVD encoding.

Built-in Format Legalization
Comprehensive Blu-ray Disc legalization means your encodes are guaranteed to be compliant. Every parameter change you make is checked for format compliance using CineVision's unique legalization technology.

Advanced Parameter Control
CineVision features extensive access to the low-level VC-1 and MPEG-2 parameter set. Support for format-compliant Advanced Profile Levels 2 and 3 VC-1 and MPEG-2 Main Profile, Main and High levels is included as standard.

Exclusive Segment Re-encoding
Perfect your encodes using CineVision's exclusive segment encoding engine. Simply select a segment in CineVision's timeline and adjust the bit rate and/or quantization levels to an unlimited number of segments.

Professional Blu-ray Disc and DVD Authoring

Dual Format Support
Create Blu-ray Discs and DVDs with the same project. BD PowerStation's unique design enables video professionals to publish the same project to two formats - Blu-ray Disc and DVD - a huge time saver. When you've finished authoring, simply select your desired format and publish to the format of your choice.

Hollywood Proven Player Compatibility
The BD PowerStation shares the same Hollywood proven core as Sonic's high-end DVD and Blu-ray production system, Sonic Scenarist. Scenarist has produced more DVD and Blu-ray titles than all other systems combined, making it the proven standard for professional production and ensuring your titles will be free from playback problems.

HD Motion Menu Compositor
Add that professional look to your titles. Choose from a huge library of menu templates - or create your own - and build fully interactive high definition motion menus with motion background and buttons - all within one powerful authoring interface.

Drag-and-drop Slideshow Creation
Create beautiful HD slideshows using our built-in slideshow compositor. You can include up to 999 HD slides, choose from 65 slick transitions, and build an audio playlist with unlimited audio tracks - all combining to produce a professional slideshow that takes minutes to create.

Professional Authoring Timeline
The BD PowerStation's timeline gives you detailed control over every aspect of your HD presentation including chapter point placement and 8 audio and 32 subtitle streams. And there's no need to worry if your video presentation contains source files with different frame rates and resolutions either, the BD PowerStation can handle any combination and ensures your title is fully compliant.

Professional Mastering
The BD PowerStation produces replication ready masters for both DVD and Blu-ray Disc. Alternatively, for one-off discs or smaller runs, you can simply burn straight to a recordable disc of your choice. Regardless of your format choice, the BD PowerStation gives you access to every copy protection and mastering parameter you need to deliver fully compliant masters.

Advanced Blu-ray Disc Emulation

Comprehensive BD-ROM Emulation
Scenarist QC provides Blu-ray Disc authors with a comprehensive QC emulation environment, enabling you to view finished BD productions directly from your computer's hard drive at the same time as viewing valuable debug information.

Navigation Break-pointing
Need to investigate a problem? Simply set a navigation break-point on any Commands to step through your project to investigate any unexplained navigation behavior.

Extensive Playback Logging
See inside the BD player. View extensive color-coded logs that tell you everything you need to know about the player's inner workings during playback.

User Friendly Log Filtering
Filtering player actions in Scenarist QC's trace log removes any unneeded information, allowing you to drill down to the most pertinent information for fast project debugging. Data is also interpreted and presented in a readable format so you don't need to know any spec jargon.

Built on Industry leading CinePlayer® technology
Scenarist QC is built on proven Sonic CinePlayer BD-ROM playback technology used not only in Sonic's professional authoring tools, but as middle-ware in set-top boxes, as well as for PC-based software playback.