[Daniel Ludwig]

select end-action: undefined

that should work with CS5 and CS6.

note: BD-authoring is badly implemented into encore.

cheers

danny

[Daniel Ludwig]

hi cody,
you´ll hav high bitrates when your picture will have a lot motion and movements, and lower bitrates when there is less motion and movement.

if you set your encoding VBR the encoder could use these values (peak limit/everage) but it should not use it, if not necessary.

cheers

danny

[Daniel Ludwig]

Ryan
page 0 will have NO page-id, you just need to place the button (+) with the PSD-file.

cheers

danny

[Daniel Ludwig]

hey alex,
there are different issues I guess.

first of all it´s not quite clear what source-format you´ve used to create a BD or DVD.

if you are talking about MP4-files they are not similar to BD-complient xxx.h264 oder xxx.264-files and it´s no good idea to use these files within encore.

as with ALL authorings (DVD + BD) the best way to use assets is to encode them according to DVD/BD-spec prior authoring.

meaning: use adobe media encoder to create SD-MPEG2- and AC3-files (using the DVD-preset) and HD-H264- and AC3-files (using the H264-blu-ray-preset).

take care about field-dominance, as media encoder has lower field as preset (for DVD). all NTSC-sources are lower field, but HD-source is progressive or upper field first. PAL could be upper or lower field first depending on your source-codec.

cheers

danny

[Daniel Ludwig]

hey stan,
BD-limitation is different according to BD-spec. it´s got a 16MB limit for all IG (interactive graphics) within one title (menues are a titles as well), as the IG-stream will be loaded completly into the players RAM-buffer before starting the title.

so you could have as much multi-pages/buttons/background/button-groups within the IG-stream as you want.

but in fact there is a limitation as far as I remember, and it´s regarding buttons within a single button-group. this is limited to button 0 to 32, but I´m not quite sure about it.

cheers

danny

[Daniel Ludwig]

Hi Guys,
if encore will transcode your previously encoded assets depending on 2 things:

1. your asset
2. (and mainly) your project/transcoding-setting

encore will not transcode your assets if they are created according to BD-specs and if your project/transcoding-settings will be the same.

there is only one thing you need to know: MENUS are only accepted as MPEG2(HD) for blu-ray, even if you choose H264 as project-setting.

compressor, adobe media encoder, squeeze and different other encoder creating BD-complient assets, that could easiely be imported into encore.

cheers

danny

[Daniel Ludwig]

Zeno,
I´ve got the same result using the WAVES WLM-plugin within my tests.

there could only be one reason:

the mesurement will happen “pre-fade” – this is a real problem, as FCP X still not having a real mixing-feature (announced for 2nd half jear 2012).

will be interesting what will happen.

cheers from germany

danny

[Daniel Ludwig]

juan,
forget about macbluray-player, as the standart is not fully supported – in fact no IG-graphics working, so it´s absolutly useless if you would like to check BD-programming.

@steve:
if you would like to have a full-spec-authoring-tool you might look at DVD-Logics.

they have a more easy Solution called EasyBD and a professional (full-spec) solution BDEditor.

both are at real good price-target.

cheers

danny

[Daniel Ludwig]

agree – checkdiscs are necessary in high-vol. production.

[Daniel Ludwig]

robert,
if it´s a real 16:9 PAL-clip it IS anamorph, as 16:9 with aspec 1:1 would be 1024×576 instead of 720×576.

but if your source is DVCPRO HD, this is HD and need to be scaled to SD prior encoding, and if it is 1080i50-source, it needs to be cropped left and right to fit to 720×576.

what encoder do you use to create your PAL SD MPEG2? adobe strangely using a different aspec-ratio (1050×576), but your encoded file will be 720×576 as well.

are you using adobe media encoder?

NOTE: DVCPRO HD has a native resolution of 1440×1080 instead of 1920×1080, it´s an anamorph HD-resolution.

cheers

danny