Extract Audio / Vidéo from Blu-Ray for Authoring and re-encoding

Hi,

We had a Blu-Ray made at a lab from an HDCAM Master. I would now like to extract its content in the form of video / audio track, without quality loss (in short, rip it) so that I can create a Blu-Ray authoring with menus, pop-up menus, different audio tracks and subtitle tracks.

Looking at my soft / hardware gear and what's available on the "not too expensive" market, I'm most probably looking at an authoring on Adobe Encore.

I'm on a mac and I have tried to rip the Blu-Ray to .mkv with MakeMKV, convert the audio / video to high quality .mp4 with h264 codec in MPEG Streamclip and then import in Encore, but I feel like there are some losses at each step of this process, starting with some bitrate limitations in MakeMKV.

Any advice / guidance on the process?

on a sidenote, does anyone feel like I do that it is taking a long time for Blu-Ray to really pick up in terms of standard for HD video? There are very little software built to work the format, arguably because it has been conceived as a more protected format than DVD, but still...I feel like it should have become the standard "prosumer" format for 2 or 3 years now.

Thanks for your time,

Colin

If you want to do this right then you need to hire somone who's done this kind of work before. BD is very strict on its specs and simply demuxing a stream may not cut it. You don't even know what and how the orig stream were encoded? Are they in spec? What encoder? Were multi audio and subs accounted for?

Also Encore is unable to do what your looking for. I
You're looking at at heavy investment in time and money to produce milti audio/subs and pops ups

BD isn't DVD....not by a long shot and those who produce them correctly have unique skills sets you will need to master before moving on.

I'm don't mean to say your unable to do the work or not a Pro.... You obviously are. It's just there are too many people who decide they will authoring a BD with " X Y and Z". And find out later (often when a client is expecting a product) That they are in over their heads

Well, his post covered several questions.....not just how to demux a stream.

Colin, I'm certainly not an experienced pro when it comes to BD but it occurs to me that maybe you can get hold of the file that the HD tape might be archived to. That way you're going to be in the best position to break it all down to do what you want?

As to your point about the distribution and exhibition of HD material, I'm equally puzzled that BD hasn't become the standard format. Surely few are playing from tape, so it has to be files on drives (best for quality) or BD, the most convenient. Anyone have ideas on this?

Michael Slowe

Eric, you misunderstood my point to Colin. He wondered why BD was not being embraced by the media world quite in the same way that DVD was. I merely agreed with him.

Michael Slowe