Larry Applegate
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John, that’s interesting that Encore creates a chapter point. In DVDAfterEdit you can choose where to create the break (if there isn’t a legal one), but it makes it just a cell, not a chapter point, and thus does not change the navigation.
Sonic Scenarist will let you choose to make layer 0 smaller than layer 1, which is called parallel track path (PTP) instead of opposite track pad (OTP). This means that the head has further to seek, and is a less desirable solution.
But it is also possible to move the starting point of layer 0 up, if there is room, to find a legal cell (chapter) slightly earlier, and that is a method that didn’t occur to me when I was writing DVDAfterEdit, unfortunately. We now use that method in BluStreak Premaster for Blu-ray, and the free Windows app ImageBurn also uses this method.
But ImageBurn doesn’t make DDP images for replication. There is NO information in a build folder (VIDEO_TS) about where to put the layer break, it can only be done at DDP image build time.
DVD Studio Pro still gives more latitude than Encore, since it gives the ability to designate which VTS to use for which track (timeline). The Hollywood studios always plan the layer break from the very beginning of the DVD design. For example, in the extended edition of ET, the layer break occurs when the mother first sees ET in the boy’s room, and stands frozen for a moment.
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Larry Applegate
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Check out our forthcoming product Blustreak Tracer on our web site.
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Encore is full of bugs. The problem is, even you manage to avoid the crashes and corruptions, your final disc is likely to misbehave and not do the proper navigation, and Encore’s preview is worthless to know that. But if you work hard at it, and learn how to avoid the pitfalls, it can do ok. I suggest looking at Jon Geddes’ stuff on this forum.
But Encore’s handling of layer breaks is much worse than DVD Studio Pro. So it is not a solution to your problem. You will be much better off in trying to learn more about how the VIDEO_TS folder is put together by DVD Studio Pro, and making sure you create a legal layer break during the authoring process.
You can download the free demo of DVDAfterEdit here, and it will expose the structure of the VIDEO_TS folder:
https://www.dvdafteredit.com/node/1262
You will see little red and blue arrows in the left pane of the window if there is a legal layer break. You can use the preview in the right pane to figure out which VTS is what video. You can use the finder to figure out approximately where the middle of the video is.You can also use the Tracer function to step through the navigation commands and find the errors in Encore’s builds. It is more difficult for DVD Studio Pro, since it’s “abstraction layer” is very complex, whereas Encore’s is simple.
For complete control on visual setting of the layer break, you can purchase DVDAfterEdit Mastering Edition.
Hope this helps.
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Larry Applegate
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Hi, sorry you missed your deadline. (I am one of the authors of BluStreak).
Actually CS5 is quite a bit better than CS4. (I know, yet another upgrade cost). They did fix a lot of the project corruption problems. And they added multi-page popups, which is really a nice Blu-ray advanced feature.
We are working on a new product, BluStreak Tracer, which will be able to find and correct any navigation errors. I know, Blu-ray is hard, but you’ve already put a lot of time and money into it. So if you decide to continue, with or without the upgrades, We’ll do our best to help you.
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Larry
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The DVD Specs were written over 15 years ago, when microprocessors were very weak and had limited memory addressing capabilities. If you break this rule, your DVD will not play.
So your only choice is to use buttons over video in the VTS domain, which Encore does not support. So you will need to find a professional or prosumer-level authoring application. On Windows, there is Scenarist and perhaps others.
On Macintosh it can be done with DVD Studio Pro. here is an explanation from the DVD Studio Pro 4 User Manual:
Larry
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Blu-ray authoring is finally practical for more than just a very basic project. The multi-page menus are very good, and can make popup menus just like the big boys. It also seems easier to keep track of the pages all in one Photoshop file.
True, no animated buttons, you can only have 18 buttons, and your selected and activated button images and colors are limited by some DVD restrictions. But there is enough to work with to create some very nice results. Encore is also more stable and reliable.
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Doug,
All European players can play the NTSC frame rates, so you are good to go. (Unfortunately most US players cannot do the reverse).
As Michael said, none of the Mac authoring options offer premastering for replication. However our product, BluStreak Premaster, will replicate from any authored build folder (BDMV).
https://blustreak.dvdafteredit.com
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Larry Applegate
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I did a bit of googling on the Insignia devices and didn’t get a warm fuzzy feeling. Can you get access to and try a different Blu-ray player? Perhaps even at a Best Buy, with your BD-RE.
Unfortunately many players don’t play DVD media unless the content is AVCHD. Even the PS3, which is very annoying. And the PS3 and many US players, including all of Sony’s, won’t play titles authored to the “PAL” frame rates.
Still seems like Sony, the Blu-ray consortium, and the AACS company is doing everything in their power to discourage independents. But enough of my rant.
It is possible that there is a BluStreak Burner bug in burning from BD images created by other software, and I suppose it could even carry over to our own images, but I’ve never had a problem with that. You could try burning directly from the BDMV. But I would guess the more likely reason is an Insignia limitation or a bad encode or data corruption or i/o error.
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Larry Applegate
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You must burn a UDF 2.5 Blu-ray disc image to play it in the combo TV-Blu-ray player, either with Toast or BluStreak Burner.
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Larry Applegate
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Technically, PAL refers to SD, but the situation is similar in BD. Most European players will play both 50 and 60 Hz frame rates, and many US players won’t play 50 Hz. The best solution is indeed 23.976, which will anywhere.
Here is a tutorial on how to convert from 50i to 23.976 progressive from our European representative:
https://blustreak.dvdafteredit.com/1080i50-2398p-workflow
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Larry Applegate
https://blustreak.dvdafteredit.com/