Blu Ray Baby

[Brian Paterson]

Hi Chris, Thanks for the reply.
I am just investigating which BD discs I should get so don’t actually have any media to try out in toast or Encore as yet. I am also unsure as yet what size files I might end up with ( and therefore what size discs to get ) so am going through the process of making the initial files at present to see.
I made a four minute test last week which seemed O.K. then yesterday made the full 2hr MPG 4 file which took over eight hours to convert in Adobe Media Encoder. It is 18 .5 gigabyte and I have just tried to bring it into Encore Cs5. The wheels spin around seemingly forever and I force quit it a couple of times thinking there might be a problem. I have now read somewhere it might take a while but have no idea how long. ( I now assume it’s bringing in the whole file and not just a reference of it. ) Could this take another eight hours or could it be a lot shorter.? Will the output file be the same size as the input file ? It all a mystery right now so don’t know whether I should sit here and wait or go in the garden and cut logs for the rest of the day. After that I don’t know what size file I will end up with or how long I should expect it to take to output a disk image. It’s all quite worrying and painful not knowing what to expect or whether I am doing it right or wrong or whether after all that it might not work. I have searched everywhere for these answers but had no luck.
Regards burning several copies out of encore I am quite happy to do that if it is as quick as doing it with toast but what happens when I shut everything down and go back in the future to make another copy. Will it just as easily ( and quickly) burn another copy. Will I have to make a disk image to use with encore to do this or just use the normal output files.
So many questions so few answers.
Any help is most welcome. Many Thanks – BRIAN.

brian paterson