[John Morfesis]

My understanding is that Aple DVD Studio Pro cannot do Blu Ray Discs and we had no problems when we burn a DVD, only on Blu Rays we heve seen the pauses.
Check my previous post.
The same exact steps on a standard DVD the motion video plays fine no pauses, fluently with no problems. And it is the same video and menu just on standard def dvd. This client gets the same project on DVD and Blu ray.
I have CS5 and I was wondering if Adobe have fixed this problem.
But then again if they fixed this problem Iam sure other problems will come up.

[John Morfesis]

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[John Morfesis]

Hi Jeff
Thanks for staying with me.
Some updates:
I have a CyberLink Hi-Def Suite and on the bottom there is a progress bar.
When I play the menu you can see the loading bar loading the video and it pauses for a second as the bar goes blank and it starts loading again afrer the loop point . It seems that there are two seperate renders or streams for the the same menu just because there is a loop point.
Read this post further down on the same forum
https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/145/866397
Why does Encore create (and play) two different menu streams?
I will try to download a smaller version of my project to Adobe’s FTP and see if they can come up with any answer.
I will keep you posted.
Thank you.

[John Morfesis]

The project is a MPEG 2 Blu Ray and we import as assets the video and audio. We drag them to the newly created timeline and on the timeline we made 8 chapters.
Then we created a PSD menu with 8 button and we link the buttons to the chapters. So far so good.
Then we wanted to replace the static background of the menu with video and audio. So we brought in one 40 seconds long mpeg2 blu Ray compliant video and wav audio and we use the video and audio pick whip to add the 40 second video and audio to the background of the menu. So now as a menu we have the motion video and audio playing on the background along with the buttons from the PSD menu.
It all looks good but we wanted the buttons from the PSD menu to fade in at 3 seconds into the video and the duration of the fade in to be a second long.
I hope you still with me.
So to do this we had to animate the buttons. So we use the Create After effects Composition in Encore and automatically converted the menu into a layered composition in After Effects.
So in After Effects we animated the buttons to start fade in at 3 second. We simply use the opacity with key frames.
Then we brought in the newly created video from After Effects into encore and we use the pick whip to replace the video background of the menu with the new one.
So now we hide the layers of the PSD menu by going to the layers panel so that they do not appear over my background video.
And here is where the problems starts.
When we play the menu it plays fine except the highlight of the button that it is active it shows on my background video before the animated buttons come up. Remember the first 3 seconds of the video is just the video and the animated button fade in after the 3 seconds into the video.
So we put a 4 second loop. By doing that we can now see the menu video playing without the buttons up to 3 seconds, at 3 seconds the buttons shows up and at 4 seconds the highlight of the button shows up.
That is exactly what we want. And it plays fine on the preview in Encore.
But when we burn a Blu Ray disc and we play the menu the video and audio pauses for a second or two, right where the loop point is at 4 seconds, right where the highlight of the buttons is about to come up.
And that is the problem that small pause of the motion video menu.
Iam not sure whether I can describe this any better.
The same exact steps on a standard DVD the motion video plays fine no pauses, fluently with no problems. And it is the same video and menu just on standard def dvd. This client gets the same project on DVD and Blu ray.
By changing the loop point from 4 seconds to any other number still don’t help. At 8 seconds loop the pause is at 8 seconds.
Play back in on my PP3 and software Power DVD on my computer. All the same.
By using avi video from premiere pro instead of blu ray mpeg2 still don’t help.
Any thoughts?
Thanks again

[John Morfesis]

Hi Jeff,
We have made the exact project on standard dvd and have no problem. Again, the problem that we have is not when it pauses at the end of the motion video menu to start looping again.
The motion menu is 40 seconds long and we have set the loop point at 4 seconds which is the time that we want the button highlight to show up, as the motion video starts playing when it reaches the 4 seconds where the loop point is and where we want the buttons to activate and the highlight on the buttons to be shown the video pauses for 1 to 2 seconds and then it continues till the end of the duration of the motion video which is 40 seconds long and then it pauses as it’s supposed to do to go back to the loop point but that is not our issue.
Our client gets the same video on blu-ray and standard dvd. All settings are the same and on the standard dvd we have no pause at the 4 second loop point and the motion video plays fluently for 40 seconds and at the 4 second mark the buttons appear along with the highlight. On the blu-ray is where our problem lies.
On the motion video we bascically have the buttons to fade in between 3 to 4 seconds into the video and that is where our 4 second loop point is so that the highlight of the menu buttons don’t appear at the beginning till the 4 second mark. Obviously to accomplish this we have turned off the eye off from the layers of the psd menu.
Are we to assume that this is only a blu-ray limitation and if so is there a different approach so that get the same results.
Thanks,
John