Full BluRay function on DVD blank disk

[Philip Meadows]

I will have time to try it our this next week. Got buried doing some other work lately. I will post my results soon. Stay tuned! 🙂

[Philip Meadows]

Verified!! I finally had time to test this out and it works perfectly on my Panasonic DMP-BD30. I used a Verbatim DVD+R DL 8.5GB disk and put about 6.5GB of HD footage on it. I burned it on a standard DL burner with ImgBurn.

[John Rich]

It sounds like “you’re the man”. About what was the duration of the HD footage?

John

JOHNR

[Philip Meadows]

The data on the footage:

1920×1080 at a length of 69 minutes and 50 seconds.

[Mike Latendresse]

Brian,
I’m tearing my hair out. CS4 PrPro and Encore and ImgBrn. I’ve been trying to create an AVCHD DVD disk WITH MENUS using encore and imgbrn. Playback on Panasonic DMP-BD655 (and sometimes a higher end SONY that a friend has. I can ALWAYS successfully burn a PrPro avchd-compliant file to DVD using NERO VISION, but the menus are so amateurish that I’d really rather use my ENCORE menus, but ENCORE always creates the menu *.m2ts file at 40mbs which as I understand it is more than DVD AVCHD can handle (18 mbs limit). Are there special settings (i’ve tried a lot) in ImgBrn that you use? Looking at the NERO burns that work, I see that there is no CERTIFICATE folder. Nor are there the “odd” JAR, META, BDJO, etc folders. Seems to be straying from the specs, but I tried to mimic this as straight ENCORE builds always have these in them. Still, nothing works. Can’t tell you which SONY my friend(S) have…suppose it could be just my three trial players aren’t quite so compatible? They do all play the NERO disks, though–just not ENCORE menus.
Is there a tutorial complete with ALL transcode settings, ImgBrn write settings, etc?

THANKS!, THANKS! Mike

[John Rich]

Mike,

Assuming you want to take some AVCHD footage you captured and put that together with some BLuRay sized menus you created in Photoshop and create a 20 min or less Bluray project on a regular DVD, I would suggest:
Use an AVCHD preset in PremPro CS4 (I’ve moved on to CS5), and export your timelines as BluRay Mpeg2 in Ad Med ENcoder.
Assemble your project as a BluRay in Encore and burn a BluRay .iso.
Then use Imgburn to burn the .iso to the DVD. (Remember NO chapter points )
This in my experience should play on a BluRay player assuming the firmware of the player is up to date.
I would be interested to hear how it works out.
John Rich

JOHNR

[Brian Kennell]

That’s an interesting situation Mike. I don’t remember what my exact settings were.

I would check the “Max Bitrate” setting for your Encore Project (File->Project Settings->Advanced ). I presume that setting a lower max bitrate on that tab would apply to motion menus. Let us know what you get.

[Mike Latendresse]

Thanks JohnR and Brian.

I have been using MAX 15mbs setting on the Encore Project Settings AND ImgBurn to no avail up to this point. HOWEVER, if I use multiAVCHD to “assemble” the burn project after manually deleting the CERTIFICATE and BDMV/META;JAR;AUXDATA;BDJO folders from the ENCORE “folder burn” (CANNOT get the *.iso image to work at all–I’m guessing it is because of the above folders are still in the image file) and then use ImgBurn I can get an AVCHD DVD disk at 18mbs with motion menus and all to play on my set-top BluRay player.

Brian–your workflow is exactly what I’ve been trying for so long w/o success. Perhaps it’s just the players I’ve been able to use for testing. The two higher-end SONY BD players I have friendly access to have not been kept up to date on firmware. Maybe that’s what’s preventing an easier process as you describe. I do find it interesting that you mention Chapter points as being a no-no. I’ve been working on simpler projects just to get something to play and now that I’ve got that figured out, I’ll be attempting Chapters in AVCHD. I know NERO 10 does chapters half-way reliably, but again I don’t care for the less-robust menus allowed in Nero. When you say “no chapter points”, do you mean ENCORE chapter points set in Premiere Pro or chapters one creates after the fact right in Encore?

Thanks to both of you again for your quick response. Brian-has CS5 NOT gotten any easier in regards to this AVCHD flow?

[Mike Latendresse]

One more thought for now. I still find it very interesting that such an inexpensive program like Nero can deal with AVCHD burnt to DVD disk for use in BluRay players and Encore/PrPro can’t.