Re: Blu Ray Authoring HELL

I have authored a few Blu-Ray discs, some short format, and one with a runtime of 75 minutes. I was using prerelease versions of Encore CS3 for some of this, and wrote an article for Post which came out in last years July Issue. It should be a stable enough platform to author to. I think we just need to figure out where things are breaking. I had some problems with the prerelease version of the H.264 encoder on long format projects, but I think those got worked out before release. I have never had problems with the MPEG2 encoder. BTW, the problems I encountered only had to do with completing successful transcodes. If you made it past that, it should be smooth sailing. That being said, you mention that you finish your Blu-Ray burn, but it won't play. On the Blu-Ray disc player side, early versions sometimes didn't support BD-R and BD-RE media, but this should be corected with a firmware upgrade. Modern Blu-Ray players shouldn't have this problem. My first tests with PS3's over a year ago, wouldn't read until; we did a firmware upgrade. So, the first thing I would do on your end, is update firmware. I'm a little confused by the inability to play on the computer, though. I would try the newest version of Cyberlink's Power DVD Ultra, which is designed for playing Blu-Ray discs on the computer. If this won't play it, we have bigger problems. If you get their Suite 6 Ultra, you can try using their Power2Go application to burn your Encore image to the Blu-Ray disc. They are pretty committed to supporting Blu-Ray, and I've been impressed by their utilities. I think you can get demos of their stuff to test too.

Try this and let me know. I suspect your problem is either in the burn to the Blu-Ray disk, or compatibility with the Bd-R or BD-RE media.

Hope this helps. Give me feedback and I should be able to help you resolve this.

Heath