Brian Kennell
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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.
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Just in case someone else runs into this. I have an MPEG2 encoded track for Blu-ray. Using Encore CS3 v3.02. No menu’s, nothing fancy. I tried to write an ISO image and I get the Fatal Error, code 6 everytime. I tried these fixes here and elsewhere to no avail.
What finally worked was changing the disc name and the filename/location. I changed the name of the disc from “Smith-Jones Wedding Unedited HD Footage” to “disc” and the filename from “unedited_footage.iso” to “disc.iso” set to build to the root c:\ and I was able to build a Blu-ray ISO image.
I don’t know which change solved my problem, but it worked. This software is really flaky. Reminds me of the encoding error you get if you use an “&” in the filename in Adobe Media Encoder…
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You can also select the video/audio clip in your project window, and go to Clip->Audio Options-> Breakout To Mono.
It will create two mono clips in your project window and you can manipulate them independantly!
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Darin,
How many clips do you have in your project? I typically have 500+ HDV (.m2t) files per project and to open a project takes 5-10min.
I have a theory that if i don’t split up my .m2t files, the project load time will go down drastically. I have not tested this however. Do you capture via the Premiere Pro capture utility?
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I’ve had success with Blu-ray discs burned with a Sony BWU-200S and played on a BDP-S300. Typically I use Encore CS3 to create the project and output an ISO image. I then burn it via ImgBurn. My player required a firmware update before it played BD-Rs or BD-REs. I’ve used this player at multiple wedding shows with no problem.
For what its worth, none of my clients have called to complain their Blu-ray discs didn’t play…
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Yes, definitely. H.264 is a much more efficient codec than MPEG2. You can fit more video on a DVD or Blu-ray without a loss in quality. Takes more to time to encode however.
I would conservatively suggest that an MPEG2 bitrate of 20Mbps is visually equivalent to an H.264 bitrate of 15Mbps. That being said, I always encode my HD content w/ H.264 @ 20Mbps.
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John,
Yes, I have the S300 hooked up to my HDTV via HDMI.
I know for a fact that it will play DVDs, DVD-Rs, DVD-RWs, BDs, BD-Rs, & BD-REs. I use BD-REs to test projects before I burn a $15 disc! Some players may need a firmware update to play recordable discs. I don’t know why the Sony website says it won’t play recordable discs.
No, I don’t have an AV receiver or digital tuner hooked up to the BDP-S300. I just use the audio that comes thru HDMI.
I’m glad you got it working! Kinda weird how the PS3 doesn’t play the Blu-ray content correctly…
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John,
I did a little test tonight and it worked fine.
I opened a new Blu-ray project in Encore CS3. I then setup my project just how I wanted, motion menu’s and all. It was all simple HDV clips strait from the camera, even the motion menu’s. When i was satisfied how the menu’s (i used an encore preset), buttons and such worked, I exported the project as a Blu-ray Image file (.iso). I then used ImgBurn to burn this ISO image to the DVD. ImgBurn doesn’t care what the contents of the image are, so don’t worry about writing a blu-ray project onto a DVD, It just cares if the image will fit on the DVD. Make sure it’s less than 4.7GB! :o)
The resulting DVD plays just fine in my Sony BDP-S300. The HD footage is the same quality as its Blu-ray counterpart. I’ve never tried to play blu-ray on a PS3, so that might be a separate issue.
Hope this helps.
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By “project” I mean a Blu-ray project in Encore. I put a series of timelines (all HD H.264) that were linked in serial fashion to each other. Played correctly in my Blu-ray player.
What I’m suggesting is for you to try exporting your project with menu’s as an ISO image and then burn it to a DVD using ImgBurn…
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I’m using Tayo-Yuden 4.7GB DVD-R’s. I have examples of these discs that I even offered to mail to Adobe because their “support” reps insisted that i was doing something wrong or had faulty hardware. This happens on two different machines (one windows XP SP2, the other Vista x64) that previously never had problems with the older Production Studio.
go figure.