[Clayton Zook]

This may be a little late and a little lame. But after seeing that slogan so many times, I’ve rephrased it to “come for the blu-ray, stay for the crash”

Its unfortunate that so many months later major issues are still STILL unresolved…

[Clayton Zook]

Kevin,

Thanks for the link! Unfortunately my clients need DVDs of anything I do in BD as well…to keep things uniform I need more full control than templates most of the time. Yours look good though! I’ll have to check out quartz.

I don’t need an entirely elegant solution, most importnant is a cheap one and one that works, right now. Walter’s (from his blog) doesn’t really cover cheap!

I’ve been happy with the BDRs I made when I edited in Premier -> Encore menu build -> Toast burn…I just can’t keep editing in Premier (yuck). If I can switch PP with FCP and use my workflow otherwise I’ll be happy. That’s the cheapest option! I’ll check out exporting MPEG-2 via Compressor and see where that leads me.

Thanks guys for the help!

[Clayton Zook]

Walter,

That clears up my original questions. Just for kicks –

“It’s allowed greater than 29mb/s for almost three years now.”

I’m guessing that means that they started that with Compressor 3. I have version 2 of Compressor. When I go to customize bit rate for MPEG-2 the slider for average and max are 2-29 and 5-29. That’s what I get for working on old software. But glad to hear if I upgrade I’ll be good.

That’s cool, clears up what I was after. Appreciate the help!

[Clayton Zook]

Thanks Walter for the quick response! A couple of follow ups if I may

“You make the MPEG-2 file in Compressor before going to Encore. Don’t send a QT movie to Encore.”

I have tried taking the QT file to PP first letting PP encode the MPEG-2 and send it to EN from there, still the jaggy problems.
I’ve not actually ever imported an MPEG-2 from FCS to EN, but I take it this is possible, but where you run into menu building issues.

My one problem with doing MPEG-2 from FCS to EN, in my current version of FCS (v1), is that I can’t make an MPEG-2 that is of max bit rate. My highest available setting is 29mb/s, Blu-ray allows 40, correct? So on projects where I have the space, most of the time, I want to max out that bit rate to use the space I have available to me on the disc.

So does Compressor 3.5 allow for encoding greater than 29mb/s? perhaps is what I should have asked as well.

Also to further clarify you are/were having trouble with the MPEG-2 file from FCP/Compressor in EN?
It is with the MPEG-2 that you are running into the problems with not being able to create proper menus?
Do you have problems creating (more) fully fleshed menus in EN with other files besides MPEG-2s from FCS (say what about an MPEG-2 from PP? or another file type from FCS)?
EN seems to work fine for me building disc menus (at least with MPEG-2s encoded by PP, as I said I’ve not tried from FCS), I just can’t burn to my burner with it (need Toast for that step)…

Also now that I’m reading it again, I have actually read your blog before (on the Encore issue, through 08 post)! Adobe needs some serious Mac help.