What's New in Sony Blu-print™:

1. For systems running Blu-print 4.3, no additional prerequisite software is needed. To install Blu-print on Windows XP with service pack 2 or 3, please run the “Blu-print 4.3 and 4.4 Prerequisites.exe” file first, follow the instructions and reboot the machine. Then run the Blu-print_20090507_v4_4_7_11986.exe file to complete the installation of Blu-print 4.4
2. To install Blu-print on Windows Vista with the SQL2005 Express option, please consult the installation manual for Blu-print on SQL2005. Please install the Microsoft .Net 2.0 redistributable in order to use the Batch File Explorer*. The .NET 2.0 installer can be downloaded from Microsoft website. If you have a previous version of Blu-print installed, the installer will ask you whether to use your existing Project Locator database. You may either continue using your existing projects, or clear all projects from the database.
3. The default path for creating new projects is "C:\Blu-print Projects". If you wish to modify it, edit the fixedconfig.xml file on the following line: C:\Blu-print Projects

(*Note: the "Batch File Explorer" is a standalone application that does not require a dongle and can be installed on any number of separate machines. This application can be used to pre-process elementary stream files to generate the XUI files.)

Blu-print 4.4.7 Release Notes

1. Highlights of New Features
   
   
   • ENHANCED BD-J SECURITY  Blu-print 4.4 contains new security features for BD-J objects and JAR signing. It can now sign the JAR files with leaf certificates generated from the disc application root certificate, allowing content owners to keep their disc root certificates safe.
   • BETTER INTEGRATION WITH BDJO TITLES  Blu-print 4.4 supports BDJO as first play while still supporting the mixture of HDMV and BDJO titles on the same disc. The author now has the ability to set which titles in the Index Table will contain the BP Scripting initialization code. Further, BD-J engineers can control when such auto initialization is executed with a special GPR name/value pair setting, specified in the Disc properties.
     Additionally, Blu-print 4.4 has improved integration with Ensequence on-Q Create® for Blu-ray, allowing multiple BD-J applications to be included in a single BDJO to support title unbound, disc unbound application playback.
   • IMPROVED AACS AND BD-LIVE ONLINE SUPPORT  Blu-print 4.4 supports the creation and import of BD-Live required certificate and signature files. It also contains support for Basic and Enhanced Title Usage settings with AACS-Online APIs. Multiple CPS Units including mixture of encrypted and unencrypted content can now be defined.
   • ENHANCED PHYSICAL LAYOUT ALGORITHM  Blu-print 4.4 contains more improvement to the physical file layout routine to support better seamless connections and seamless jumps. It also incorporates intelligence to better balance the distribution between two layers to improve final disc quality.
   • XML TEMPLATES TO DEFINE PROJECTS AND OBJECTS  Blu-print 4.4 allows users to create XML files that define the objects of a project. Through simple XML files, a full set of objects and streams can be created or merged automatically. More advanced template support will be coming in the next release.
   • ENHANCED SECONDARY STREAM AUTHORING, CLIP APPLICATION TYPE 7 AUTHORING  Clip Application Type 7 clip and secondary stream authoring has been improved to better manage PiP metadata settings. Restrictions have been relaxed to create secondary video/audio subplayitems of various durations that are different from the main segments.
   • VISTA® SUPPORT  Blu-print 4.4 supports the Windows Vista operating system through Microsoft SQL2005 Express as database engine. However, the traditional MSDE database engine used in Blu-print is not compatible with projects created using SQL2005, therefore Windows XP with MSDE is still the recommended system environment for Blu-print users.
   
   
   
2. Bug Fixes
   
   
   • Be able to handle project directory set as HDD root directory
   • Fixed XML file generation error due to Save Error
   • Acquisition Points are no longer dropped between two Normal Case PCSs in a PG stream
   • Cleaned up orphan objects from the database when objects are deleted or de-referenced
   • Fixed deleting BDN file fails if there are effects defined in its list
   • Fixed project refresh problem when deleting Text Subtitle event
   • Timeline Editor now shows correct stream for an angle after streams have been de-referenced from VPC
   • Fixed a bug when Page Animation is changed, the IsModified flag was not set correctly
   • Fixed a bug of null object reference after a floating scrip with a jumpobject command
   • Reverted language code list to ISO 639-2 1998 edition