Walter, I’m surprised your having problems with Blu-ray in ES3. We have produced over 10 projects without a single problem. We are on PC’s but I think the main reason for our success is that we do all of the preperation outside of Encore, we only use Encore to “Stitch” a project together NEVER make changes in Encore. Menus are completed in Photoshop, including all buttons, subpicture and menu colour set. We use Edius Procoder3 for encoding in MPeg2 – Encore encoders are not very good by comparison – chapter time codes are noted from the Edius timeline and entered into the Encore timeline, again never change a chapter position in Encore. The BD-R discs made by Encore have all played on Blu-ray players that recognize this type of disc.
We had to learn the above the hard way in our first project, but follow these simple rules and no problems. Looking forward to the additional features in ES4.