[Daniel Ludwig]

alex,
1st: did you encode the entire 10min-film using adobe media encoder as well? it´s much better to transcode the film prior authoring (it´s the usual way).

2nd: if you haven´t got any slideshow on the disc there wont be any “built slideshow”-popup.

if it is a plug-and-play-DVD, I would start from scratch with a new project and see what might happen.

cheers

danny

[Daniel Ludwig]

DUB means duplication of the discs, meaning always give a 2nd set of your disc(s) to the replication-facility, as there could occure read/write-errors on DVD+/-R media.

[Daniel Ludwig]

hi,
the other problem that might be the problem is the original codec that all clips have been shot and/or have been edited within FCP.

Jay, what codec have been used for these shots and your editing-sequenz and what project/transcoding-settings did you use for your encore-project?

there is still too much missing information about your workflow/project to get a direction for your specific problem – we are all fishing in the dark.

cheers

danny

[Daniel Ludwig]

no 1 hit for errors in video: wrong field dominanz!

1. HD1440x108 = upper first
2. DVC PRO HD = upper first

by spec

so why you´ve chosen DVC PRO HD as lower field first, as it is upper first?

cheers

danny

[Daniel Ludwig]

my advice to you:

encode your video prior importing into encore.

if you have some time from that moment when you finished and exported the video and the day of the arrival of the mixed audio, you could be easily prepared for a muxing and ready to burn your disc.

make sure all subtitles woking within encores muxed stream.

I would prepare an h264-file of your final master and use the fastest machine that will be found in the postproduction-house.

use one 1-pass VBR, as 2-pass will take a LOT more time to encode your film.

take care about the max bitrates, shouldn´t be more than 30-35MBit/s. if you use taget-bitrate at 20-25Mbit/s, your film will have a good picture-quality.

cheers

danny

[Daniel Ludwig]

Alan,
as Eric described, there are several issues that comes with blu-ray. but if you are willing to learn and spend some time you´ll might be able to author professional BDs.

but this would definitelly wont work with encore.

if you (or you company) looking for software that could handle professional blu-rays I would look at DVD-Logic EasyBD-Suite.

https://www.dvd-logic.com/easybd/

It´s worth the price and you can create professional BDs.

if you need to create replication-masters, you also need to get blustreak tracer CMF (as EasyBD couldn´t create it):

https://rivergatesoftware.com/blustreaktracercmf

so you´ll get a complete working suite for less than 1.5k$

cheers

danny

NOTE: be awared of the significant work on the Interactive-Graphic Stream 😉

[Daniel Ludwig]

other point:

8,5GB are 8.39GB – take care about 1000 vs. 1024! that´s a gap for a lot people.

same with DVD-5 (4.7GB), it only has 4.39GB totally size.

cheers

danny

[Daniel Ludwig]

Brent,
as I´ve seen your profil – I could see you are using DSLR-cams.

could you please explain your workflow how you import/edit and export your video out of FCP.

as I´m a long-time FCP-user I know that the use of H264-material within FCP would cause that green-picture-problem in a lot of cases.

H264 is an distribution-codec, not an editing-codec.

so the best way to go is to transcode/export your video to PRO RES or PRO RES HQ prior editing or use with encore.

the other imporant thing is better to encode your assets prior you use them within encore.

encore is a big, big mess – really not compareable with DVD SP – and not that much capable as well, but DVD SP could not handle blu-ray, as we all know.

if you just need to create DVD you should better go the DVD SP-way.

cheers

danny

[Daniel Ludwig]

hi carlos,
the screenshots you attached to your quote are very small, so no one could see anything.

as far as I understood your problem, you don´t want to have the black frames between sceen 1 and sceen 2.

to me it appears you´ve set end-actions to every chapter, to get to the next one. in that reason you´ll have a short black between every chapter because of navigation commands in the deeper DVD-structure.

I would advice to organise this project in a different way.

1. you´ve got the “play all”-feature from chapter 1 to the end.
2. you need to create stories for the other 2 play-option (chapter 1-6 and 7-end)

this should result into smoothly playback of the two selections.

cheers

danny

[Daniel Ludwig]

Hi peter,
encore accept all DVD-spec MPEG2-files, dolby AC-3-files and WAV audio-files. for BD you need to create an BD-spec-complient HD-MPEG2 or an AVC-file (better known as H264).

encore accept the following picture-resolutions:

1080p23.98, 1080p24, 1080i50, 1080i60, 720p50, 720p60, PAL SD and NTSC SD

there are several parts of the H264-spec, so you must be sure that it is a BD-complient H264. for example quicktime H264 wont be accepted and will be transcoded.

Encore itself could transcode all kind of input-files to the selected media-type, as it has an entire trancoding-engine, so if you would import MOV or AVI that would be possible, but a real author would do the transcoding-work prior authoring. therefor you can use AME (adobe media encoder).

according to bitrates:

DVD-spec allow 10.08Mbit/s as max bitrate, and BD-spec allow 40Mbit/s. while high bitrates have no problems on BD-R-media they are a problem on DVD-/+R-media. you should not use more that 8.0-8.5Mbit. in other case that could cause problems with burned DVDs while playing.

if you are authoring BD I would advice to use H264 instead of MPEG2HD for HD-content, as H264 could have lower bitrates while picture-quality is the same as MPEG2HD.

cheers

danny