[Chip Maynard]

Memorex does have firmware updates on their site. The one up there now just seems to be a DRM thing, but there’s another one coming on Jan 5. I’ll try updating then and trying the discs again. In the meantime, I guess I’m headed off to Best Buy…

Thanks

[Chip Maynard]

ImgBurn is the program I was looking for, thanks for reminding me. It works perfectly.

HOWEVER, it still isn’t creating a viewable disc in my Memorex BD player.

What I get is a verified burn, that when dropped into the player, cycles around, then engages play mode and the counter sits at 00:00. No picture, no audio, and no error message. The controls on the player are very unresponsive in general, so I can’t tell if it locks up at that point, or if that’s the way it normally behaves. It plays proper BDs from Netflix fine, and even proper DVDs, just not this BD on DVD that I’m trying to create.

There are so many factors that could be the problem, let me just post a few and see if any stand out as being an obvious deal-breaker.

1. Burning the ISO with a stock MacBook Pro Superdrive (not a Blu-ray burner).
2. Burning with ImgBurn by running Windows XP inside Parallels
3. Burning to Verbatim DVD+R media
4. BD player is a Memorex MVBD2510 C

The ISO is created in Encore and I’m pretty sure it’s OK, but really have no way to verify.

[Chip Maynard]

I thought I read that somewhere but was having trouble confirming. Thanks for the tip.

The Blu-ray ISO doesn’t need to be created any particular way to make it UDF 2.5 does it? Or is that just the way it’s burned?

My player is a cheap Memorex model that will read DVD+R discs when formatted as DVD. I was hoping to build some short HD Blu-ray discs without taking out a second mortgage for blank BD media while I’m learning. I’ve got a stack of blank DVD+Rs waiting to be sacrificed.

[Chip Maynard]

It’s that excruciating updating I was hoping to avoid.

My thought was to do all the keyframing and camera moves with the flat layers so I wouldn’t have to keep updating.

So are you saying that if I rebuild the whole comp, but start by linking the layer sets to the Illustrator layers BEFORE I animated them, it will work? I can live with that.

[Chip Maynard]

I attempted the rollback to QT 7.3.1 and it worked. Exported a flash file from Encore without a hitch.

I haven’t detected any problems with the rest of the Adobe suite or Final Cut for that matter.

-Chip

[Chip Maynard]

I realize it’s been quite a while since you posted this, but I can add that there’s a problem with QT above 7.3.1 and Encore. I am not able to export Flash from Encore with QT Prp 7.5.5 installed on a MBP running Leopard (10.5.5)

[Chip Maynard]

I’ve got some effects applied to layers that are pre-comped inside the main pre-comps. That must be what did it.

My work-around for this project was to pull all the layers out of all of the pre-comps and put them all in the main comp. Had to do lots of parenting, and it was a little more cumbersome than I’d like, but at least all the layers behaved.

I didn’t realize that effects applied would break layer sorting. Thanks for the advice.

[Chip Maynard]

One additional comment…

If I pull all the individual layers out of the subcomps and drop them into the main comp, the individual layers DO respect z-space. It seems to be a problem with subcomps.

[Chip Maynard]

I’ve seen this happen on LCD monitors, while the same project looks fine on a CRT. Can you check it on a different monitor?

[Chip Maynard]

It’s conceivable that it could be a limitation of your monitor causing the banding, particularly if it’s an LCD. Can you check it on a CRT?