Chapter issue in CS4 burning Blu-Ray Disc

[Joe Bandy]

I tried the test using and used a h.254 instead of a AVI file and the Ch stop at 33 sec was not there. Does this mean I have to recreate my assets?

[Jeff Bellune]

Wow, Joe. That’s a lot of questions. I need to bring the discussion back around to the thread topic or it’ll get really confusing for anyone else reading this thread.

Your other questions are good ones; they deserve their own threads.

[Jeff Bellune] “somewhere along the line during the construction of this project, either in Pr or En, a chapter point was added at the 33-second mark. Why it’s still there, I don’t know. Maybe it would help troubleshoot why it’s there if you tried a new test:

* Create a new test project in Pr and one in En.
* Import just the problem Pr sequence into the new Pr project.
* Re-verify that there aren’t any markers where they’re not supposed to be.
* Set the work area bar to encompass the 33-second point with a minute or so on either side of it.
* Export as uncompressed (or Lagarith, if you have it) .avi.
* Import the new .avi file into the new Encore project.
* Add the .avi to a timeline and build the project to an RW disc.
* Play back the disc.

Is the chapter marker at 33 seconds gone? “

Your first question concerning this test was this:

[Joe Bandy] “Is there any reason we would use and AVI instead of H.264 for Blu-ray? “

The AVI file is an intermediate file that will be transcoded by Encore. That’s why I suggested you test with only a small portion of the whole Pr timeline. Transcoding in a fresh, new Encore project should eliminate any possible “ghosts” of the leftover chapter point that existed in the Dynamically-Linked sequence or in the previously transcoded Encore files.

[Joe Bandy] “We don’t have any BD-RW discs either. We only have BD-Rs does that matter for this test.”

I should have said a “BD-RE” disc, because those are re-writable. A BD-R will be just fine. I didn’t want you to waste one on a test if a BD-RE was available.

[Joe Bandy] “I tried the test and used a h.264 instead of a AVI file and the Ch stop at 33 sec was not there. Does this mean I have to recreate my assets?”

That’s good news! You skipped the intermediate file but still got the desired results. Make sure your test file imports into En and shows up as “Do Not Transcode” in the Blu-ray Transcode Status column. If that’s how it imports, then you should transcode your assets in Pr to H.264 before importing them into Encore.

-Jeff

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