BD PowerStation™
The BD PowerStation™ provides everything your business needs to deliver replication-ready Blu-ray Disc titles. Featuring Hollywood-proven encoding, authoring, and emulation technology, the BD PowerStation enables you to launch your Blu-ray business using a proven platform that's ready to scale as your clients' demand.
Dual Format Blu-ray Disc and DVD Support Save time and future-proof your DVD titles. The BD PowerStation's unique design enables video professionals to publish the same project to two formats - Blu-ray Disc and DVD-Video - a huge time saver. When you've finished authoring, simply select your desired target and publish to the format of your choice. You can even publish to DVD-Video today and re-publish using BD at a later date, future-proofing your catalogue. | |
Hollywood Proven Technology and Player Compatibility Proven technology you can rely on. The Sonic BD PowerStation is built on the same proven core as Sonic's high-end production system, Sonic Scenarist®. | |
Cinematic-quality Encoding with Sonic CineVision Stun your clients with cinematic-quality encodes that take your Blu-ray Disc and DVD titles to a whole new level. Sonic CineVision® is built on over ten years of DVD and Blu-ray Disc-focused development dedicated to providing the professional production community with encoding and authoring tools that deliver the highest possible production quality via an intuitive and efficient user experience. | |
Advanced Encoding Parameter Control Extensive access to the low level encode settings as well as optimized presets for fast turnaround. CineVision features unique access to the low-level encoding parameters including fine control of motion searching, GOP structure, and powerful adaptive quantization controls. | |
HD Motion Menus and Slideshow Creation Create professional looking titles in minutes with drag-and-drop creation of fully animated HD menus and slideshows. 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. You can also create beautiful HD slideshows using PowerStation's built-in slideshow compositor. 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. | |
BD-ROM Replication Support Burn a one-off DVD/Blu-ray title or send your project off to replication for high volume production. Once you've finished authoring the BD PowerStation provides you with the control to deliver to whatever format you choose with comprehensive copy protection support. Create one-off BD-Rs, DVD-Rs or DVD/Blu-ray premasters for replication. | |
Comprehensive BD-ROM Emulation with Scenaris® QC QC your finished Blu-ray title straight from your hard drive with Scenarist QC - professional emulation software with unique debugging capabilities and playback logging. 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. |
Hollywood Standard Encoding with CineVision |
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The Choice of Hollywood |
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Produce Stunning HD VC-1 and MPEG-2 Encodes |
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Comprehensive Blu-ray Disc and DVD Support |
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Built-in Format Legalization |
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Advanced Parameter Control |
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Exclusive Segment Re-encoding |
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Professional Blu-ray Disc and DVD Authoring |
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Dual Format Support |
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Hollywood Proven Player Compatibility |
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HD Motion Menu Compositor |
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Drag-and-drop Slideshow Creation |
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Professional Authoring Timeline |
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Professional Mastering |
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Advanced Blu-ray Disc Emulation |
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Comprehensive BD-ROM Emulation |
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Navigation Break-pointing |
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Extensive Playback Logging |
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User Friendly Log Filtering |
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Built on Industry leading CinePlayer® technology |
Specifications
Encoding
- Video codec support - VC-1 Advanced Profile (Levels 2 and 3) and MPEG-2 Main Profile (Main and High levels)
- Encoding modes - One- and two-pass bit rate-controlled VBR and One-pass CBR
- Full preset editors giving complete parameter access to VC-1 and MPEG-2 encoding parameters
- Segment re-encoding - Adjust the bit rate and maximum quantization level for an unlimited number of segments.
- Parameter change logs for preset editors
- Batch encoding - Queue multiple encoding sessions in a batch
- Import chapter points directly from CSV or Sonic StreamData files
- Sync mode playback - Slave encoded movie transport to source transport for instant comparison
- QC loop mode - Automatic alternating replay of a selected section of the source and movie
- Varispeed playback for source and movie files
- Parameter legalization tools - Blu-ray Disc primary video, Blu-ray Disc secondary video, DVD-Video
- Video resolution support - 1920 x 1080, 1440 x 1080, 1280 x 1080, 1280 x 720, 960 x 1080, 720 x 576, 720 x 480, 704 x 576, 704 x 480, 544 x 576, 544 x 480, 480 x 576, 480 x 480, 352 x 576, 352 x 480, 352 x 288, 352 x 240
- Frame rate support - 59.94, 50, 29.97, 25, 24, 23.98, 3:2 pull-down insertion
- Supported input formats - QuickTime® files (.qt and .mov), AVI files (.avi), DPX image sequences (RGB 10-bit), Planar YUV files (.yuv), MPEG-2 video files, MPEG-4 video files, Windows Media Video files (.wmv)
Authoring
- Video codec support - AVC, VC-1 and MPEG-2
- Video resolution support - 1080p, 1080i, 720p, and 480i
- Built-in motion menu compositor
- 8 audio streams
- 32 subtitle streams
- HD slideshow creation
- 999 images per slideshow
- 65 slide transitions
- Slideshow audio playlists
- AACS and CSS copy protection support
- Region coding support
- Jacket picture support (DVD)
- DVD-ROM Creation
- Dual format mastering - Output to both Blu-ray Disc and DVD
- BD volume and image output
- Blu-ray Disc and DVD mastering
- Premaster DVD projects to DLT
- CMF support for BD mastering
Emulation
- Playback from local or network hard drive and BD-R
- Emulation of non-AACS encrypted images
- Color-coded trace log utility
- Command debugging control
- Command breakpoint support
- Profile 1.0, 1.1, and 2.0 support
- Comprehensive player status reporting
System Requirements
- Windows® XP Professional, Service Pack 3, 32-bit
- Microsoft Direct X 9.0c
- Microsoft Windows Media Player 10 or later
- QuickTime® 7 or later
- 3GHz processor (multi-core processor recommended)
- Monitor with minimum 1600x1200 screen resolution (1920x1200 recommended) and 32-bit color support
- 2 GB DDR2 SDRAM
- 75 GB of available hard drive space
- Windows-compatible sound card
- Windows-compatible DVD-R(W), DVD+R(W) or BD-R(RE) drive
- USB port for security dongle