"The immense and growing popularity of PSP has created demand for movie titles on UMD. Studios around the country are coming to us to find a solution for re-releasing their movie catalogs on UMD. With hundreds of titles now available commercially and new titles appearing regularly, we needed a solution that could help us with this challenge," ha affermato Rob Seidel detto, Vicepresidente Esecutivo e Direttore Generale della Deluxe Digital Studios, Inc.

"Sony Media Software's UMD Composer provides all of the tools we need for the UMD authoring process and has allowed us to help bring this new and exciting format to market," ha aggiunto Seidel.

"The UMD Composer provides a powerful and comprehensive suite of tools that simplify and streamline the video authoring process for UMD video production," said Dave Chaimson, vice president of marketing, Sony Media Software. "Sony Media Software looks forward to working closely with media service partners in the entertainment industry to help them launch films for UMD. This toolkit provides all of the production essentials for in-house development and post-sale support."

L' UMD™ Composer offre tutti gli strumenti necessari per codifiche di alta qualità, composizione di playlist, preview, compilazione, generazione di immagini, verifica, esempi e documentazione.

L' UMD™ Composer include:

• Stream Composer — audio/video/subtitle encoder, multiplexer, clip info composer, with support for multi-pass encoding and bit reallocation

• Stream Viewer — used to preview encoded stream file

• Playlist Composer — generates playlist file

• Script Compiler — converts UMD Video Script into faster-executing UMD virtual machine instructions

• UMD Video Resource Compiler — creates a binary data resource file from XML, UMD virtual machine instructions and placeholder PNG files

• UMD Video Interactive System Viewer — using resource files, provides a way to test and validate the Video Interactive System ("menus") within a PC environment

• PSMF Composer/AT3 Tool — creates images and sounds for display on the Xcross Media Bar of PSP's menu screen

• UMD Image Generator — compiles all created files into a UMD image

• UMD Image Checker — will verify compliance of created UMD image

Da Sony è dispobinile separatamente anche un emulatore hardware.

L'UMD è un disco ottico di solo 60mm di diametro che può contenere fino a 1.8Gb di dati, inoltre incorporate il più aggiornato sistema di protezione dei contenuti fornendo ai publishers ed agli sviluppatori un ambiente di sviluppo protetto dalla pirateria.