Tutorial for successful Blu-ray and DVD Authoring

[John Mitchell]

Hi Jeff

I respect your opinion but I’m confused (mind you – I’ve authored only a few BDs)- all my reading of the spec says BluRay players are “better” at branching than DVD players and should be able to do it seamlessly using “the contents playlist file, which allows for high speed access to virtual playlists.” Hasn’t this part of the spec been implemented? I wouldn’t know but I’d be very surprised if Blu-ray was taking such a backward step. Of course using BDJ even more interactivity is achievable than straight BDMV authoring but I felt sure that even with BDMV (or HDMV) branching is supported.

And what I meant about making it clear wasn’t something buried on Pg 152 of the help file, but a warning that comes up in the interface when your trying to build a BD with chapter playlists. They have a project error checking process immediately prior to build, so Encore “knows” that it is building a blu-ray but no error pops up in the interface? Huh? Sorry – epic fail for me.

cheers

John

[Jeff Bellune]

In En, there are 2 kinds of playlists: Standard and Chapter. I don’t know why Standard Playlists work and Chapter Playlists don’t work on BD players, nor what would be involved in making En’s chapter playlist function work for BD. All I know is that according to Adobe, BD players won’t play En’s chapter playlists.

This is why an abstraction layer is always a less-than-perfect solution if direct access to the links and structure isn’t also available.

[John Mitchell] “And what I meant about making it clear wasn’t something buried on Pg 152 of the help file, but a warning that comes up in the interface when your trying to build a BD with chapter playlists”

That’s an excellent feature request, but it’s not what you said initially:

zero out of 10 for Adobe for not documenting this

As I pointed out, it is documented.

-Jeff

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