Re: Blue Ray and FCP7

Hi, Simon -

we haven't used FCP7 Share yet but we've done several big Blu-Ray projects using FCP / Encore / Toast. A couple of things to note: we've found some of the more complex navigation through Encore (i.e. using 'stories' to jump in and out of a single track) work well in simulation mode but not on the burned Blu-Ray. Using separate tracks for each jump point solved this ... it's less elegant but effective. We've also seen some compatibility issues if the encoding rate through Encore is set too high, even if we've used Compressor for the MPG-2 files. And, last but not least, I'm not sure if Encore still has the 25GB limit for Blu-Ray projects but you can get around it by outputting the project to an .ISO image from Encore and then using Toast to burn that to a BD-R DL. We actually fit a 3+ hour HD program onto a Blu-Ray this way.

Cheers,

John Ward

Editor / Animator,
Synergetic Productions

john@synergeticproductions.com
http://www.synergeticproductions.com
315.437.7533