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Buy One and Get Another with Only $10 Plus!

Brenda — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 02:56:16 +0000

Big News! Now, the users who purchase Sothink Movie DVD Maker or HD Movie Maker (one of them) can get the other one with only $10 additionally, which means you can own both products with ONLY $45 totally! Check more details on http://www.sothinkmedia.com/series/cool-holiday-special.htm

For the registered users of Sothink HD Movie Maker or Movie DVD Maker, you can also share the same favorable price by sending request to the customer service, but do remember to provide your registration information for the support.

About Sothink Movie DVD Maker

It is the fastest DVD creator and burner software to convert and burn DVDs from any video formats (AVI, MP4, WMV, FLV, MPG, 3GP, etc). Make 1080p home DVD movies with high definition quality. Create DVDs with built-in DVD menu templates, customize DVD videos, chapters, subtitles before writing on any types of DVD discs.

About Sothink HD Movie Maker

This blu-ray creator is used to convert and burn videos to Blu-ray and DVD Discs. Super fast to author Blu-ray movies and AVCHD, and also create stylish Blu-ray menus. Enable HD enjoyment on Blu-ray players and PS3 from HD camcorders, DVs, etc.

What’s more, the next version of Sothink HD Movie Maker is going to embed more fantastic blu-ray menu templates. If you are interested in the product, do not miss the very special offer!

Let Blu-ray Menu Templates Make Your Blu-ray Movie More Stunning!

mirrorking — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 07:47:54 +0000

The most high definition Blu-ray movies are awesome, and Blu-ray movie menu templates can make your Blu-ray movie enjoyment even more fabulous!

The Blu-ray menu templates, which are added more in the next version of Sothink HD Movie Maker, are used for directly creating or customizing Blu-ray movie menu. Those menu will list all the HD movies in your Blu-ray or DVD disc burnt and decorate your Blu-ray movie playback.

Preview the new Blu-ray menu templates >>

Main Features:

Offer well-designed Blu-ray menu templates for directly use.
Support changing menu background image.
Support changing menu background music.
Support customizing duration time of menu displaying.
Support adding and editing the text of Title (disc name) and Button (movie thumbnail).
Support customizing playback of the Blu-ray menu.
Support synchronal previewing for menu editing.

Next week the Blu-ray burner will get a great upgrade and bring dozens of new stunning Blu-ray movie menu templates. With all the amazing feature of the Blu-ray menu mentioned above, burning Blu-ray or AVCHD movies with HD DVD Maker is not only high definition movie back-up but also HD creation!

Try Sothink HD Movie Maker 2.1; Experience the Upgrade Version!

Brenda — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 07:32:58 +0000

If you ever meet problem with 5.1 surround sound encoding or get the converted video of asynchronous audio and picture when using Sothink HD Movie Maker, now you can try the upgrade version 2.1, which has fixed those bugs and enhanced a lot. Moreover, the error message “FFMPEG Video Converter has stopped working” may not pop up any more during the use. Welcome you to test the latest version and give us your feedback!

Sothink HD Movie Maker will lead you to create Blu-ray movies with amazing quality and high speed. Convert and burn videos to Blu-ray Discs or AVCHD DVDs for HD enjoyment on any Blu-ray players or Sony Playstantion® 3 game console.

This Blu-ray movie creator allows world-wide users to convert video to Blu-ray, edit and burn Blu-ray discs and AVCHD DVDs from various formats. It creates Blu-ray Movies from HD videos, like HD AVI, HD WMV, HD MKV, H.264/AVC; burn Blu-ray from online videos like YouTube video; author Blu- ray video discs from common video files, like AVI (DivX/XviD), MP4, WMV, MKV, MOV, 3GP, M2TS, MPEG-1/2/3/4, RM/RMVB, FLV.It is also full Blu-ray burning software that helps you burn shot videos from HD camcorders, DVs, and iPhone 4 onto Blu-ray discs. As one of the pioneers, the latest HD Movie Maker can make Blu-ray menus to dress up Blu-ray and DVD discs. 200% faster than average speed, it saves a lot time on Blu-ray movie authoring. Enable easily enjoy high-def movies with families and friends!

Video Converter, HD Movie Maker, DVD Ripper Win Editor’s Pick at bstdownload.com

Gracie — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 05:23:58 +0000

Congrats! Sothink Video Converter 3.3, Sothink HD Movie Maker 2.0 and Sothink DVD Ripper 2.1 have been recognized by bstdownload.com for Editor’s Pick.

Sothink Video Converter 3.3 works to convert video to video in any popular formats, including AVI, MP4, MPG, WMV, ASF, MKV, MOV, FLV, 3GP, VOB, DV. It also supports to convert video to audio and video to image. The output videos are perfectly playable on iPad, iPhone, iPod, PSP, PS3, Android phones, MP3/MP4 Players and all kinds of portables. Detail review and screenshots of this Video Converter.

Sothink HD Movie Maker designed to burn various general videos, HD videos, camcorder videos and flash videos to Blu-ray discs. It offers rich editing/setting functions and stylish Blu-ray movie menu maker. In the editor’s rating from bstdownload.com, Sothink HD Movie Maker scores 32 out of 35 concerning “Resources”, 19 out of 20 concerning “Ease of use”, 8 out of 10 concerning “Look and feel”, and 31 out of 35 concerning “Functionality”, making it got total 90 with 100 as the maximum grade. Detail review and screenshots of this Blu-ray Creator.

Last but not least, Sothink DVD Ripper is also useful software. It rips DVD movie to MP4, AVI, WMV, MOV, MKV, MPG, FLV, SWF, MP3, M4A and devices formats, like iPod, iPod Touch, iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, PSP, PS3, Zune, Creative Zen, iRiver, Archos, Sandisk Sansa, Xbox 360, Wii, Android phones, Windows Mobile Phone, Nokia N-series, BlackBerry. “Overall, Sothink DVD Ripper proves to be a reliable and easy to use DVD ripper that will help home users” quoted from bstdownload.com. Detail review and screenshots of this DVD Ripper.

Download a free trial today, if you have any question, welcome to leave message here or contact us on Twitter or Facebook.

Author Your Personal Blu-ray Movies with Xmas Discount!

mirrorking — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 09:00:54 +0000

During the sweet days of Xmas activities, Sothink HD Movie Maker 2.0 is released! Now world-wide users can enjoy the easiest Blu-ray authoring with Xmas big discount!

Keeping super fast burning speed, the latest Blu-ray creator from SourceTec adds an amazing function Blu-ray movie menu. It supports creating stylish movie menu for movie chapters’ preview on both Blu-ray and DVD discs. You may just follow the default settings and HD Movie Maker will generate your menu for convenient disc playback and dressing up. It also could be customized through changing the background image, background music, disc title text, playback mode, etc. Anyway, the new video to Blu-ray burner makes your Blu-ray movies personalized, and the Blu-ray authoring is even easier than before!

Sothink HD Movie Maker prices at $ 35, and now if you join SothinkMedia Xmas activities, you can have it with big discount!

For example, you may purchase the Blu-ray movie burner at its original price together with DVD movie burner, which is only $10 for Xmas discount. That will save you 20 dollars! (Link to order Sothink HD Movie Maker + Sothink Movie DVD Maker Pro.)

Or, you directly buy Sothink HD Movie Maker only and enjoy 30% discount. It needs you to “Like” SothinMedia page and add SothinkMedia as your friend, or follow SothinkMedia at Twitter. Then the Xmas coupon code for 30% off will be immediately sent.

About the details of Xmas promotion activities, please go to page http://www.sothinkmedia.com/series/xmas-holiday-gift.htm.

Download This Super Fast Video to Blu-ray Creator — Newly Released HD Movie Maker 1.3

Gracie — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 08:14:50 +0000

Spotted, besides the lately disclosed iPhone 4, you should also pay some attention on our newly released HD Movie Maker 1.3. One is leading the society to be more aware of HD video, and the other is trying to upgrade your speed to create one.

Sothink HD Movie Maker 1.3, Video to Blu-ray Creator is a blu-ray oriented software. It supports converting and burning Blu-ray movies on Blu-ray Disc or regular DVD (AVCHD) from a wide range of video formats, including: MKV, AVI (DivX/XviD), MP4, MOV, WMV, FLV, MPEG-1/2/3/4, RM, RMVB, H.264/AVC, M2TS, M2T, MTS and etc. it covers the latest IPhone 4 video files (MP4), HD cameras (Sony-M2TS, Canon-M2T, Panasonic- MTS) and HDTV. Find more about Video to Blu-ray Converter and Burner.

Here I’d like to list the main features of HD Movie Maker for your better understanding:

1. One-stop Solution for Creating Blu-ray Movies

Convert and burn multi-formats of video to Blu-ray movie
Encoded videos could either be burnt on Blu-ray Disc (BDMV) or on regular DVD Disc (AVCHD).

Supported Videos	Supported Discs		Play on
WMV, MKV, AVI, DivX, XviD, MPEG, MP4, 3GP, MOV, QT, RM, RMVB, H.264/AVC, M2TS, M2T, MTS, FLV	Blu-ray Disc (BDMV)	DVD (AVCHD)	Blu-ray Players and Sony PS3
	BD-R, BD-RE, BD-25, BD-50, etc	DVD+R, DVD+RW, DVD-R, DVD-RW, etc

2. Convert and Burn Video to Blu-ray with Super Fast Speed

The most conspicuous feature enhanced in this version is the greater converting and burning speed of Blu-ray creating.
Up to 200% faster than the last version
This video to Blu-ray creator offers you choice of fast speed with quality video image

3. Small Software but Rich Functions

This video to Blu-ray creator supports rich editing & setting functions, including create chapters, trim and crop, add external subtitles, enable logging, 5.1 surround sound and so forth.
And it can intelligently calculate video bit rate according to disc’s capacity.
Simple & clear interface, user friendly and working stable.

4. Superior HD Experience on PS3 and Blu-ray Players

Audio and video synchronization
No quality loss in converting and burning process
This Video to Blu-ray creator supports Film, PAL and NTSC all TV Broadcast Standards

5. Guaranteed On-sale and After-sale Services

30-Day free trial
30-Day money back guarantee
Keep updating for user’s better experience
Enjoy free upgrade policy for long

Now, we offer you 30 days of free trial!
Don’t hesitate to Download HD Movie Maker 1.3 !

Deal Of The Day: Get Up To 30% Off On Movie Burner Solution!

joey — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 08:01:58 +0000

Holiday season shopping is at its height these days. Sothink now offers at highly discounted prices. Most bundles are reduced by 30% at the moment.

So if you ever wanted to grab yourself a box set with your favorite movies or TV show NOW is the time! These will also make an ideal gift for many.

Sothink Movie Burner Solution is a powerful movie maker suite enables you to make common video resources into DVD or even HD movie. You can treasure those amazing videos and enjoy with a better experience at any time you like.

Who needs this bundle?

You do, if youâ€™ve ever:

Wanted to keep amazing video, but just found hard disk is full
Wanted to enjoy High-definition movie, but found bluray burner is too expensive
Already have a DVD maker; unfortunately find it not-all-popular- format-fully-supported.
Already have a DVD maker, but want to make a HD DVD for enhancement.
Wanted to edit sth when making DVD, but did not find a suitable application

With this bundle, you could

Treasure all your favorite video as DVD and HD DVD!
Enjoy high-quality watching experience without going to the cinema!
Burn HD movie without a real HD bluray burner, save big!
Edit and customize your DVD as you want!

Come and get yourself a Sothink Movie Burner solution! Enjoy your loved video smoothly with your family at home on this Christmas holidays!

Start Blu-ray Burning: Enjoy High-def Videos on HDTV! (Part TWO)

Gracie — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 02:05:28 +0000

This guide tells you how to accomplish Blu-ray burning easily on a blank BD disc using Sothink HD Movie Maker. The output Blu-ray Disc keeps amazingly video quality, working with Sony Play Station 3 (PS3) and most Blu-ray Players.

Trim Video

If the source file is too long and you just want to burn a part content of it, you can go to â€œEditâ€ â€“ â€œTrim …â€ to open up Trim window. Then you can decide which part will be burnt to Blu-ray by dragging the left/right slider to set start/end time.

Set target disc before Blu ray burning

Then go to Setting panel on the top right side of the interface. Here you will see both normal settings and advanced settings.

Go to â€œsettingsâ€ tab for normal configuration on target disc. Choose BD-25 or BD-50 in â€œTarget disc sizeâ€; give any texts in â€œDisc labelâ€ to identify it in future; choose â€œVideo dimensionâ€ from 1280 x 720, 1440 x 1080 or 1920 x 1080; set â€œVideo frame rateâ€ from either PAL or NTSC standard. All of these are necessary and simple settings for any users, even the beginners.

For those who are familiar with Audio/Stream, parameters and Blu-ray, you can go to â€œAdvancedâ€ tab for more detailed settings on audio/video Bit rate, Video Frame rate and Zoom mode, audio Sample rate and Channels, to get particular output quality at demands. Otherwise, you can skip the â€œAdvancedâ€ settings.

Insert BD Disc into Disc Driver

Make sure you have already inserted a piece of blank Blu-ray Disc into the Disc Driver of PC.

If not, you can still start Blu-ray burning with Sothink HD Movie Maker, and the output files will be automatically stored into a temporary folder with the Blu-ray disc structure for later burning.

In that case, you can burn all the files in that folder to BD disc using your favorite burning software. Please remember to select UDF 2.5 or UDF 2.6 file system before Blu ray burning begins.

Start Blu ray burning

Please make sure you have ticked all the video files you would like to burn.
If all above is done, you can click the â€œBurnâ€ button on toolbar to start Blu-ray burning right now. The Blu-ray burning work will start one by one according to the file list order.

How long this Blu-ray burning process will take depends on the length of your souce video file and as well as the fileâ€™ size.

Watch Blu-ray Burning Disc

If everything goes well, you will be prompted with a message telling you so after Blu ray burning finished. Now you can insert the output Disc into your Blu-ray player (BR player) or Sony PS3 and watch it on your large-screen HDTV immediately.
Have fun!

Know more about DVD & Blu-ray burning here.

Who Else Wanna Do Blu-ray Burning on Windows 7?

Gracie — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 03:17:19 +0000

Sothink software never hesitates in the least to support the latest Operating Systems. Now as one of hottest Blu-ray burner software —- Sothink HD Movie Maker 1.2 has already come out to prove that is fully compatible with Window 7! Congratulations! It formally becomes a member of Windows 7 compatible software group.

All registered users can enjoy a FREE upgrade to the latest version while all the others can get 30-day free trials for evaluation purpose. Experience it now >>

This new version of Blu-ray burning software wants to give users a quick update to help them run software in Windows 7 as well as doing in other previous Windows operating systems.

In addition, users can also view the overall time left information in the status bar during the Blu-ray burning process. That should make people feel much better to know how long they should wait for Blu-ray burning and then can enjoy the output HD movies on HDTV.

Here we would like to express thanks to all developers from SourceTec Company. Owing to their effort, now most Windows 7 users can do Blu-ray burning flexibly on their computers, and make their own high definition Blu-ray movie libraries for home entertainment.

If you are just one of the fans of this Blu-ray burning software and have some thoughts to say, please do not hesitate to let us know. It must be quite valuable for developers to improve the software better and better in future.

Check out whatâ€™s new in V1.2 >>

Free to download trial version >>

Purchase it now >>

Start Blu-ray Burning: Enjoy High-def Videos on HDTV! (Part One)

Gracie — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 06:20:24 +0000

Blu-ray is the next generation video disc format which keeps the ultimate high definition entertainment experience.

It brings you high-definition movies with amazingly clear picture and rich surround sound. A blank Blu-ray Disc can store up to 50 GB of content, which is five times more than DVD stored. It means any one can make your own library of High-def home videos and movies and draw out one of them for watching on HDTV anytime anywhere. Also, the dropping price of large-screen HDTVs and Blu-ray players is also one of the factors that we move toward to Blu-ray burning.

To make such a Blu-ray Disc, you must have Blu-ray burning software such as Sothink HD Movie Maker. This software allows you to accomplish video to Blu-ray conversion and burning with one stop.

This guide is telling you how to accomplish Blu-ray burning easily on a blank BD disc using Sothink HD Movie Maker. The output Blu-ray Disc keeps amazingly video quality, working with Sony Play Station 3 (PS3) and most Blu-ray Players.

What you need?

A piece of blank Blu-ray Disc: either BD-25 or BD-50 is OK, referring to the capability of 25 GB or 50 GB storage.
Blu ray burning software: here we use Sothink HD Movie Maker for illustration.
A Blu-ray player or Sony PS3: used to play the output Blu-ray Disc.

Before Start Blu-ray Burning

Please make sure you have installed Sothink HD Movie Maker on your PC. If not, please go to its website to download the latest version.

Launch the software and add video files

After you have launched the Blu-ray burning software —- Sothink HD Movie Maker on your PC, click â€œAdd Filesâ€ button to add source videos, such as movies you downloaded, or home videos recorded by camcorder.

Do not worry about the formats of source files. This Blu-ray burning software supports a big range of source video formats you have seen on Internet, such as AVI, MPEG, MKV, etc, and as well as the HD camera video formats like M2TS, MTS, etc.

You can use SHIFT + Left Mouse Click to select multiple video files and add them into the Blu-ray burning software at one time.

Check Video Information

All of videos added here could be places as either big thumbnails with names or small thumbnails with detailed file information.

Tips: Mouse over the thumbnail image, you will see more details about audio/video stream info such as Codec, Sample rate, Bit rate, Channels, Frame rate and dimensions.

Preview Video

In this Blu-ray burning software, you can preview each video in the lower right corner of the interface, to check if it is the right content to burn Blu-ray.

Part TWO is to be continued…

How to Burn Camera Videos to Blu-ray for Families

mirrorking — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 02:04:58 +0000

Did you always record scenes with your high-def video camera on family or wedding or other parties, and want to watch it anytime? Would you like to back up precious holiday memories as high definition discs? It will be also great to enjoy them with high quality and large screen, for example, to watch them on your HDTV.

Here is a tutorial illustrating how to convert camera videos to Blu-ray movies and burn it on Blu-ray Discs.

What You Need:

High-def Camcorder: or called HD Video Cameras, used to record HD videos for fun, such as Sony HDR-XR100E and Cannon HF200.

One piece of blank Blu-ray Discs: Insert a blank Blu-Ray disc into the computer’s drive.

Blu-ray Disc Burner: Sony unveils BWU-100A Blu-ray burner, for example.

Blu-ray Burning Software: Sothink HD Movie Maker

Step 1: Transfer Camera Videos to PC

Attach the camera to PC and transfer the video from the camcorder into PC.

Step 2ï¼š Add and Edit Video

Add Files

Launch Sothink HD Movie Maker. Selecting “Add Files” from File in the Menu or directly clicking button “Add Files” on the Toolbar, a dialog pops up for choosing movie files to the program. You can add more than one movie file at one time.

Trim Video

There is a window on the bottom of the program for previewing the video added in. You can click button â€œPlayâ€ to preview your source video and, if you just want to burn a part of video content into Discs, you may realize it with Trim function:

Select the video you have added into the program, go to “Edit” – > “Trim” function, and then you can decide which part can be burnt by dragging the left/right slider to set start/end time.

As the picture showing above, drag the left triangle to a position you want it be the start of the converted video and drag the right triangle to a position you want it be the end of the converted video. Then the video will be trimmed before being converted.

Set Disc

After you’ve finished adding files and editing video, it’s time to set the recording parameters and burn to disc. This is the tricky part, as it’s the only step of the process where things can go very wrong.

Go to General Settings or Advanced Settings panel and do some settings for the disc.

Under tab “Settings”, there are four general setting items in the Settings panel:

Target disc size: Click the arrow and select the target disc size from the drop down list.

There are four options: “DVD-5 (4.7G)”, “DVD-9 (8.5G)”, “BD-25 (25G)” and “BD-50 (50G)”. Since it is to burn the video on Blu-ray Disc, here choose â€œBD-25â€ or â€œBD-50.

Tip: If the video size is less than 8.5G, you may burn the video onto DVD and create AVCHD movie on DVD discs, which also needs to be played on Blu-ray player.

Disc label: Write the label here for the disc.

The default label is the current date. Here you can input other words for the disc.

Video dimension: Click the arrow and select the target video dimension from the drop down list.

There are three options: “1280*720″, “1440*1080″ and “1920*1080″.

Video frame rate: Click the arrow and select the target video frame rate from the drop down list. There are two options: “25 (PAL)” and “29.97 (NTSC)”.

Tip: “PAL” (short for Phase Alternating Line) and “NTSC” ï¼ˆshort for National Television System Committee) are the two standards of TV broadcast.

If you are advanced users and familiar with video code, you may set more parameters, like Bit rate, frame rate, zoom mode and channels, for your Blu-ray Disc under Advanced Setting panel.

Step 3: Start Video Burning

Make sure the checkbox besides the video file(s) you want to burn is been ticked. If there is none movie ticked, the program prompts when starting burning. When all the checkboxes are ticked, the movie files added in will be burned following the order of the file list.

Select “Burn” from File in the Menu or directly click button “Burn” on the Toolbar, and then it starts burning:

Note: If there is no disc in the drive, it pops up a dialog for prompting and HD Movie Maker automatically creates a folder for saving temporary files.

The burning function requires Windows XP SP2/Windows Vista SP1 or above versions. If the system doesn’t meet the requirement, HD Movie Maker will automatically create a standard folder to store the generated Blu-ray movie.

Sothink HD Movie Maker supports multiple CPUs and multiple core CPUs, and supports concurrent conversion for multiple videos with high speed, so if your computer has multiple CPUs and multiple core CPUs, you may go to Options-Encoding dialog and choose the maximum number of CPU cores to make burning faster.

Step 4: Play Blu-ray Disc

When the burning is completed, you may enjoy the high-def BD video on HDTV with various Blu-ray players, for example, Sony PS3.

â€œThe Easiest HD Video Appâ€

mirrorking — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 06:00:44 +0000

Since Sothink HD Movie Maker 1.0 has been released recently, it is much appreciated that more and more users shared their experience and thoughts about the Blu-ray Disc Burner from SourceTec.

Here is a review from Rob Boirun, focusing on creating Blu-ray movies with Sothink HD Movie Maker:

About the Author
Rob Boirun —- Head of the BurnWorld BurningBits Team, or also known as the Operator and Webmaster for BurnWorld.com. Constantly researching the optical industry for the latest and greatest hardware and software available. Now he will share his Blu-ray burning experience on HD videos with us. This time he used hardware like Lacie D2 Blu Ray Burner, AMD 5000+, 4GB Ram and Windows Vista Operating System. Hope this information is useful for you.

â€œThinking in HD
â€¦This year we are starting to see the first wave of HD video converter/editors for easy Blu-Ray or AVCHD creation. One such tool is from Sothink called HD Movie Maker. The first thing I noticed about this software was the well laid out interface that didn’t look to overly done. Everything is where it is needs to be.

Basically here are the steps involved to create a Blu-Ray movie:

Load the videos you want on the final result
Choose your burner, disc size (DVD5, DVD9, BD 25GB, BD 50GB), Video Dimensions, and Frame Rate
Insert your Blank Disc and click the Burn Button

Now simply walk away or go to bed and when you get back to the computer you will have a disc ready to watch in your favorite player. Note: My first test took about 4 hours to burn a 2 hour avi upcoverted to AVCHD which took the full 4.38 single layer of the DVD. I am please to see that the quality from the original avi to the DVD was dramatic.

Also note that this software is simply a HD Video Converter/Burner, you can not author/edit video.

â€¦

The ease of use and final video quality of the discs are what is impressive of HD Movie Maker. So far this is one of the easiest HD Video apps I have used this year.â€ (Read more reviews)

Thanks to Mr. Boirun and HD Movie Maker is always looking forward to hearing more usersâ€™ voice. Download Sothink HD Movie Maker right now and tell us what you think about it!

What Kind of Visual Experience Does Blu-ray Bring us?

mirrorking — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 01:44:05 +0000

Blu-ray Disc is going to be more and more popular since high definition Blu-ray movie brings a new level of movie-viewing experience, with image quality far surpassing standard-definition DVDs. So how clear the high definition Blu-ray movie is?

Below are the screenshots of two kinds of movie file: DVD and High Definition Blu-ray. Letâ€™s see the picture quality comparisons between them.

This is a picture from DVD movie file.

This is the picture from a high-definition Blu-ray movie. Captured from the ISO image file of an AVCHD demo video created by Sothink HD Movie Maker with high-definition.

Download and view High-Definition Blu-ray Demo now >>

The regular high definition movie displays clearly enough. However, the Blu-ray movie shows more picture details.Â The Blu-ray movieâ€™s outstanding picture clarity, ultra-smooth video, vivid color, and precise image scaling make video enjoyment more real.

You may create your own Blu-ray disc with some Blu-ray Disc burner or Blu-ray movie maker, like Sothink HD Movie Maker. And then just enjoy your movie with great visual experience.

Download the free trial version of Sothink HD Movie Maker now >>

How to Back up Your Blu-ray Movies onto Blu-ray Disc?

mirrorking — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 02:36:17 +0000

Since Blu-ray is the newest innovation and currently expensive, it is better to back up your Blu-ray discs in case they break or get damaged. It is recommended that burn the Blu-ray Movies from your original disc to another Blu-ray Disc with Sothink HD Movie Maker, which can easily burn HD Blu-ray movies to Blu-ray Disc of 25GB or 50 GB capacity.

Here is a simple tutorial illustrating how to burn Blu-ray movies to Blu-ray Disc with Sothink HD Movie Maker:

What You Need:

Blu-ray Movies: Save the Blu-ray movie files, which are from the Blu-ray Disc you purchased or downloaded from Internet, in the computer.
Empty Blu-ray Disc: Insert an empty Blu-Ray disc into the computer’s drive.
Blu-ray Disc Burner: Sony unveils BWU-100A Blu-ray burner, for example.
Blu-ray Burning Software: Sothink HD Movie Maker

Start Burning:

Step 1: Add Files

Launch Sothink HD Movie Maker application program.Before burning Blu-ray movie(s) into Blu-ray Disc, the movie files need to be added in first.

Selecting “Add Files” from File in the Menu or directly clicking button “Add Files” on the Toolbar, a dialog pops up for choosing movie files to the program. You can add more than one movie file at one time.

The movie files added in will be listed in Details mode or Thumbnails mode. If you want to delete some files, just select the movie and click button “Remove”. You may also click button “Move Up” or “Move Down” to change the movies’ burning order.

Step 2: Set Target Disc

Go to General Settings or Advanced Settings panel and set target disc size:

Click the arrow and select the target disc size from the drop down list. Since itâ€™s to burn Blu-ray movies into Blu-ray disc, here we select the target disc size as “BD-25 (25G)” or “BD-50 (50G)”.

Note: Besides burning Blu-ray movie to Blu-ray Disc, Sothink HD Movie Maker also can convert other various video files to High-definition (HD) Blu-ray movies and burn the movies into common DVD or Blu-ray Disc. The discs supported are DVD+R, DVD+RW, DVD-R, DVD-RW, BD-R, BD-RE, etc.

If you are interested in those high definition movie formats, you may link to SothinkMedia Glossary page for detailed information.

Besides the target disc size, you may need to do some other setting, like choosing video dimension:

Also under General or Advanced Setting panel, click the arrow below tab Video dimension and select the target video dimension from the drop down list. There are three options: “1280*720″, “1440*1080″ and “1920*1080″. Since all the HD televisions are 1920 x 1080, which is full high definition and is the standard for todayâ€™s TV’s, here it recommended to select 1920 x 1080.

If you are advanced users and familiar with video code, you may set more parameters for your Blu-ray Disc under Advanced Setting panel.

For more details, please link to http://www.sothinkmedia.com/hd-movie-maker/help/pages/advanced.html.

Step 3: Burn Blu-ray Disc

Make sure the checkbox besides the movie files you want to burn is been ticked. If there is none movie ticked, the program prompts when starting burning. When all the checkboxes are ticked, the movie files added in will be burned following the order of the file list.

Select “Burn” from File in the Menu or directly click button “Burn” on the Toolbar, and then it starts burning:

Note: If there is no disc in the drive, it pops up a dialog for prompting and HD Movie Maker automatically creates a folder for saving temporary files.

Sothink HD Movie Maker supports multiple CPUs and multiple core CPUs, and supports concurrent conversion for multiple videos with high speed, so if your computer has multiple CPUs and multiple core CPUs, you may go to Options-Encoding dialog and choose the maximum number of CPU cores to make burning faster.

When the burning is completed, you may enjoy the high-def BD movies with various Blu-ray players, for example, Sony PS3.

Click here to download Sothink HD Movie Maker and try to back up your Blu-ray Disc now >>

Did You Know Those Blu-ray Video Formats?

mirrorking — Tue, 26 May 2009 02:56:17 +0000

Recently Sothink released HD Movie Maker, which is used to convert a wide range of video formats to High-definition (HD) Blu-ray videos and burn videos into DVD or Blu-ray Discs.

What is Blu-ray Disc? Blu-ray Disc (also known as Blu-ray or BD) is an optical disc storage medium designed by Sony to supersede the standard DVD format. Its main uses are high-definition video and data storage up to 50GB per disc.

What formats that Sothink HD Movie Maker can export to? What does BD9 or BD5 mean? Whatâ€¦â€¦OK, maybe the video formats that Sothink HD Movie Maker can convert or burn to confuse you. Here are some information listed below, and you will find some clue about the popular high definition BDMV formats:

BD9/BD5 Blu-ray Disc
BD9 and BD5 are lower capacity variants of the Blu-ray Disc that contain Blu-ray Disc compatible video and audio streams contained on a conventional DVD (650 nm wavelength / red laser) optical disc. Such discs offer the use of the same advanced compression technologies available to Blu-ray Discs (including H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, VC-1 and MPEG-2) while using lower cost legacy media. BD9 uses a standard 8152MB DVD9 dual-layer disc while BD5 uses a standard 4482MB DVD5 single-layer disc.

BD9/BD5 discs can be authored using home computers for private showing using standard DVDÂ±R recorders. AACS digital rights management is optional. The BD9/BD5 format was originally proposed by Warner Home Video, as a cost-effective alternative to regular Blu-ray Discs. It was adopted as part of the BD-ROM basic format, file system, and AV specifications. BD9/BD5 is similar to 3Ã— DVD for HD DVDs.

AVCHD
The “AVCHD” is a brand new high definition (HD) digital video camera recorder format recording 1080i*1 and 720p*2 signals onto certain media by using highly efficient codec technologies. The “AVCHD” is jointly established by Panasonic, the brand name for which Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. is known and Sony Corporation.

Mini Blu-ray Disc
The Mini Blu-ray Disc (also, Mini-BD and Mini Blu-ray) is a compact 8 cm (~3in) diameter variant of the Blu-ray Disc that can store approximately 7.5 GB of data. It is similar in concept to the MiniDVD and MiniCD. Recordable (BD-R) and rewritable (BD-RE) versions of Mini Blu-ray Disc have been developed specifically for compact camcorders and other compact recording devices.

Blu-ray Disc recordable
Blu-ray Disc recordable refers to two optical disc formats that can be recorded with an optical disc recorder. BD-R discs can be written to once, whereas BD-RE can be erased and re-recorded multiple times. The theoretical maximum speed for Blu-ray Discs is about 12Ã—. Higher speeds of rotation (10,000+ rpm) cause too much wobble for the discs to be read properly, as with the 20Ã— and 52Ã— respective maximum speeds of standard DVDs and CDs.
Since September 2007, BD-RE was also available in the smaller 8 cm Mini Blu-ray Disc diameter size.
On September 18, 2007, Pioneer and Mitsubishi co-developed BD-R LTH (“Low to High” in groove recording), which features an organic dye recording layer that can be manufactured by modifying existing CD-R and DVD-R production equipment, significantly reducing manufacturing costs.

You may link to SothinkMedia Glossary page to view more detailed information about Blu-ray video formats. And if you would like to know how the Blu-ray video exactly looks like, you may download a Blu-ray video converted and burnt by HD Movie Maker and experience the HD visual enjoyment.

Click here to download and try Sothink HD Movie Maker >>