[Daniel Ludwig]

Jeff,
if you created your AC-3-files using compressor they should be valid for BD as well, or your global project-transcoding-setting is set to PCM audio.

could you please upload a small sample of your AC-3-files (2.0 + 5.1) so we could have a look at it.

cheers

danny

[Daniel Ludwig]

Hey Jef,
here you´ll see the screen-grab:

cheers

danny

[Daniel Ludwig]

short update:
I created a short test-project with encore with 2 audio-trackt:

1. dolby digital 192khz 2.0 stereo
2. dolby digital 256khz 5.1 surround

afterwards I took the multiplexed BDMV-folder and demuxed it using EasyBD, which also created a project-file straight away. within this EasyBD-project I could see, that both streams will be shown correct.

1. DD2.0
2. DD5.1

also tested with a software-player – which showed DD2.0 and 5.1 within the on-screen-info.

as I haven´t got a 5.1-surround-sound-playback at the moment – I could only analyse what I could see so far – this is looking OK.

cheers

danny

[Daniel Ludwig]

Adam,
I´ve got nearly the same computer, it´s an 17″ Macbook Pro i7, 2.66Ghz (the last one without thunderbolt-connecter, before apple decided to kick the 17″.

Encore CS6 is working fine over here. you might have a look at your system if the 64bit-kernel is turned on, might be possible that it´s turend off. encore and premiere are running under 64bit only – no more 32bit.

you´ll find this within your system informations if you check software on the left side collum.

cheers

danny

[Daniel Ludwig]

you might have a look at your system-information. it´s a big matter of your graphic-card in your machine.

which laptop do you use? macbook or macbook pro and what graphics-chip/card is in use?

cheers

danny

[Daniel Ludwig]

Olá Jose,
you if you use compressor 3.5 (I guess) that came with FCP7, you´ll find a specific blu-ray H264-setting within the setting-area on the left bottom side.

you should better create your own preset instead of using apple presets.

if your source is 25p you need to choose 1080i50-setting, meaning compresor will create a 1080psf25-video, as 1080p25 is not part of the BD-specs.

if you must stay progressive you need to slow down your video using apple cinema-tools or the compressor conforming-option.

cheers

danny

[Daniel Ludwig]

oh – my good,
jef – I remember some other guys mentioned the same problem, that 5.1 within encore will result into stereo-sound – seem to be a (one more) bug within encore.

please let me do some more investigations on that. I could have a deeper look into the projects and the resulting BDMV.

normally I create BDs using the pro-tools (scenarist, DoStudio or others).

keep you posted….

cheers

danny

[Daniel Ludwig]

Jeff,
you need to look at your project-preferences. if your project was created using “PCM-Audio”-preset, then all your audio will be trascoded to PCM, as it was selected project-wide.

you can´t change that afterwards – or in other words, you need to create your project from scratch.

encore only allow PCM or dolby digital audio

cheers

danny

[Daniel Ludwig]

Ryan,
it might be a good idea to post bigger pictures and not only a very small segment of your screen, so we could better see what´s happening on your screen.

by the way – Jon told you the disadvantages of the DVD-button-technique that is a part of the DVD-spec, which is very old now!

just keep in mind: typo-highlights are a NO GO, because of the aliasing.

if you would like to have nice buttons with transparencies and/or highlighted typo – you should look for blu-ray.

cheers

danny

[Daniel Ludwig]

if your on pal you should use 1050×576 if you are working with adobe-products. if you are using apple DVD SP you should use 1024×576 (square px) and then scale it to 720×576 for your work or use a PAL 16:9-setting within photoshop, which will be 720×576 with anamorph pixel-aspec.

cheers

danny