Larry Applegate
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Patrick, the underlying code is shared between PC and Mac. The chances of getting a different result on the PC are slim to none. The BD abstraction layer is just wrong, in much of its implementation.
The good news is that I did receive an encouraging reply from my email to the Encore Project Manager. I will be following up on this, but we can’t expect a speedy fix.
As for the invisible button problem, there may be something I can do about it. We have been working on a “Quickfix Encore Menus” feature for our next release of BluStreak Premaster and Burner. Please contact me off-list at email larry at my web site below. (Leave off the blustreak). I would very much like to look at a small test version of your project with my tools.
Regards,
Larry Applegate
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Hi Patrick,
Even though my livelihood depends on Encore users buying BluStreak Premaster on the Mac to replicate from Encore CS4, I cannot recommend the program. It is absolutely the buggiest application I have seen from a major vendor in the past 5 years. Apparently Adobe has no interest in releasing fixes for known bugs even when they have a solution. (For example their AC3 encoding fails the Sony Verifier for replication, though it plays in burned discs, they showed us a fix 2 months ago, but no update).
Many things that work perfectly for DVD do not work for Blu-ray. Walter Biscardi spent months trying to get even basic menu functionality to work in CS3, working directly to the Encore Project Manager, and nothing whatever was fixed until CS4, and then not enough to make it a viable authoring platform. I would not expect any fixes until CS5, if then.
Adobe has been a good company, and I even worked for them for 3 years after they bought out my previous company in 1997. But, like Apple, I believe that they have absolutely no interest in Blu-ray.
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Larry Applegate
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I have the Radeon 2600 in my Mac Pro. Before you give up, I would try cleaning the contacts and reseating it.
Looking in the Apple store, they have the GT120, which I have in my iMac. It is inexpensive, and will be able to take some advantage of the new Snow Leopard GPU stuff. (That’s why I bought it). The Radeon 4870 has drawn raves for its Apple Color performance, but costs a lot more.
Don’t buy even the same card somewhere else, I made that mistake once and it wouldn’t work in the Mac at all.
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Larry Applegate
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The problem is marketing gigabytes (decimal) vs. actual gigabytes (binary). Here is an explanation:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigabyte
A Blu-ray disc will hold 25 decimal gigabytes per layer, or about 23.84 gigabytes.
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Larry Applegate
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Some additional information after reading your previous posts more carefully:
The reason that it rendered two copies of your menu is the loop point. The most efficient playback is to play the entire menu through once, then link to the second menu which omits the fancy stuff at the beginning, and just loops thereafter.
Perhaps Encore is not placing the 2nd version of the menu to immediately follow the first, and that is the reason for the longer delay. This will also be affected by what you use to burn the image for testing. If Encore assigned a lower clip number to the 2nd menu, Toast would probably put it in front.
In BluStreak Burner, we give you complete control over the physical placement of the clips.
Regards,
Larry Applegate
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Hi John,
We are working on adding solutions for Encore Blu-ray authoring to our BluStreak Premaster and BluStreak Burner applications:
https://www.emedialive.com/Articles/ReadArticle.aspx?ArticleID=14741
First, it may be that you are seeing a CS3 problem, it was particularly bad with Blu-ray output, and some of the problems were fixed in CS4. If you would like, I would be happy to test this theory, if you could mail me a cut-down version of your project.
Another neat thing about Blu-ray is that it can play the same short clip over and over seamlessly by calling it out a bunch of times in the playlist, without adding any additional video or audio. So you could take your 41-second clip and play it 20 times, and it would play for 13 minutes before noticing any delay. The professional authoring systems use this technique frequently, and it is a feature we are adding to BluStreak 1.1.
Hope this information helps.
Regards,
Larry Applegate
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PATA to SATA sounds horrible to me, no wonder your have heard about problems. SATA was invented partially to overcome all the legacy problems with IDE, jumpers, and all that old stuff. And it is faster.
Definitely go with the 2nd SATA connector directly to the drive.
Regards,
Larry Applegate
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Hi Shaun,
You should be fine, then. Though if you have trouble with BD burning, you might try Toast 9 or 10.
To install your BD203 internally, take a look at these instructions:
https://eshop.macsales.com/tech_center/manuals/cdinstall/macpro_optical_install.pdf
Regards,
Larry Applegate
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Hi Shaun,
Which company did you buy from and what option did you choose, internal or external? Please report back on how it goes.
I also see that you are still on CS3. Apparently quite a few BD Encore bugs were fixed with CS4, and there are still BD navigation bugs in CS4. Are you planning multiple audio and subtitle streams, or are you keeping things simple?
Regards,
Larry Applegate
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Hi Shaun,
I don’t know where you have heard such nonsense. Talk to a salesman at either OWC or Videoguys, they stand behind their products and would not steer you wrong.
Larry
Regards,
Larry Applegate
https://blustreak.dvdafteredit.com