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Chapter issue in CS4 burning Blu-Ray Disc
I just attempted to burn my first blu-ray in Encore CS4. I am using 4 H.264 files in my project. The disc is set to autoplay with no menus and the first asset is a opening screen with the title of the disc. After creating a disc image and burning from the image I popped the disc in 2 different computers with blu-ray players and had the same issue.
after the intro screen fades out the disc just plays black for ever until I click next chapter. At that point the video starts playing fine. I also noticed that another chapter point was added to my timeline that I did not put in the project. I checked my timeline in encore and even the preview and things played back great so I’m stuck here.This is a long timeline at about 1hr and 10min in length. I don’t know why this would matter but thought I would get more specific.
I’m trying one more image and burn. If that doesn’t work I’m going back to CS3 on my other editing machine.Any ideas I need at least 2 of 3 discs done today and I’m still stuck on the first one. With encoding and authoring time you know how long this can take, Please Help!!!
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The added chapter is so that if the audience presses the Next button on the remote, it will go to the (invisible) last chapter at the end of the timeline, which will then allow the timeline end action to execute. There is no way to eliminate the creation of this invisible chapter point.
So that begs the question: how have you set up your chapter and/or timeline end actions? Do you have any overrides set?
-Jeff
The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0
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no Overrides and the end action of the timeline is set to stop. The added chapter point is near the beginning of the video. A chapter point was added in between my second and third chapter. It’s not on the timeline when I checked back so I don’t know where it came from.
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[Joe Bandy] “no Overrides and the end action of the timeline is set to stop”
Why?
-Jeff
The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0
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I did not use an overrides because the project only has one timeline and no menu. The purpose of the disc is that our vice president can go out and show these discs to people live. They are set to autoplay once you put them in and they play through from beginning to end. There are chapters so he can still skip through if he needs too. The end action is set to stop so when it ends the disc stops and does not start over. This gives him a opportunity to just start talking to the group without having to press stop or stops the disc automatically so he can change discs. I agree it’s not that exciting but for this application it works.
Would adding overrides help? I don’t know I haven’t tried it.
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I wasn’t referring to the overrides – you probably won’t ever need those.
[Joe Bandy] “The disc is set to autoplay with no menus and the first asset is a opening screen with the title of the disc”
[Joe Bandy] “The end action is set to stop so when it ends the disc stops and does not start over.”
So are there 2 timelines, or just one? If only one, then what did you mean by your first statement?
-Jeff
The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0
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Ok I tried authoring the Blu-Ray again in CS3 instead of CS4 and the video goes from the intro to the main video without any problems. I still have the added Chapter stop at the exact same spot in the video where I did not put one on my encore timeline. I am using the same assets but I have no idea how this would happen. I’m going to check my premiere project to see if I can come up with anything.
here are my settings:
Source footage
M2t 720p, 59.94, audio 48khz 16bit.
using CS3 to edit and Adobe Media encoder to export to:
H.264 Blu-Ray, 1280×720, Progressive, 59.94fps, CBR 25mbs, audio 48khz 16bit -
Ok, there is only 1 timeline in the whole project and a total of 6 assets. They appear in this order on the timeline.
1.Introduction 11sec.
2.Part 1 of 2 of the video
3.Part 1 of 2 of the video’s audio
4.Part 2 of 2 of the video
5.Part 2 of 2 of the video’s audio
6.End Credits
and that’s it.the only reason there are 2 parts and they are right up next to each other is because this was originally edited for DVD and because of file size restrictions. With a Bluray we can fit the 2 discs on one and cut costs.
The first asset is an opening introduction but it is not on a timeline by itself in fact nothing is. I was having a problem where the BD disc would just play a black screen right after the Introduction forever without ever getting to asset 2. without me manually skipping to it.
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Try putting each asset in its own timeline. If there are fades between them like between the intro and Part 1, then the audience will never see the slight pause as the laser seeks from one timeline to the next when the timelines are played back in sequence.
Encore adds chapter markers where 2 assets join together in a timeline. Multiple assets that have AC3 audio can cause issues when placed in single timeline if the audio isn’t set up and encoded just right. Separate timelines would eliminate potential issues surrounding adding multiple assets to a single timeline.
-Jeff
The Focal Easy Guide to Adobe Encore DVD 2.0
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Thanks, I’ll give it a try next week.
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So I tried putting each of my assets in different timelines in Encore CS3 and that seemed to get rid of the added chapter that Encore was putting in each of my discs at exactly 33 sec.
I building 2 different discs using the same assets in Encore CS3 and CS4 and both added a chapter at exactly 33sec into the video. I checked my encore timeline and my premiere pro timeline and had no chapter markers at that specific point.
I tried burning another blu-ray using different assets this time and I got the same added chapter at 33sec again!?
This is when I had all my assets on one timeline.
After separating them onto different timelines I did not get the added chapter point at the 33sec. mark. Does anyone know why this happens?
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