Blue Ray Navigation Oddity

I finished a DVD and verything works as anticipated.
Then I composed a Blue Ray Disc with basically the same content just better (1080P) quality. The BD runs fine except for one odd thing:
Apparently each menu item has an ID number. Then one can configure in Encore how the cursor will jump on the main menu triggered by the arrow 4 buttons on the remote control of the DVD/BD-Player.
This works fine on both discs (DVD and BD).
To make Navigation even a little bit easier, I also printed the Menu Item ID number on the main Menu, before each Menu Item. So the user sees on the main menu for example: (14) Lonely Shepherd.
Now the discrepancy: When playing the DVD, I can punch in #14 on the remote and it plays the movie "Lonely Shepherd". Not so when playing the BD. Nothing happens when pushing '#14'. Not even '#14 enter'.
The navigation settings of the BD are identical to the ones of the DVD.
Can somebody help here, or is Number punching just not supported with BDs?

I don't know if there is a difference in Bluray operation.
But I get the same results: in a Bluray player, a DVD allows selection of titles by number on the remote; a bluray disk does not.

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Whay does button navigation change after I burn to Blu-ray using Encore CS6?

Very odd. I've set up my Blu-ray project - created and previewed all the buttons, menus and navigation. The main menu contains a "Play Video" button, which is supposed to trigger the entire video to play. The "Chapters" button takes the viewer to a chapters menu. Everything previews fine on my computer. After I burn the disc, however, the button functions on my main menu have flipped. The "Play Video" button now takes the user to the chapter menu page and the "Chapters" button now plays the video. Also, the "Play Video" button is programmed to be the default for this menu. Now the menu defaults to the "Chapters" button. By the way, I created the same project on a DVD which plays as programmed. Any idea why the Blu-ray is having these issues? I'm thinking I'll reload Encore CS5 and reconstruct the project there. Thanks.

Hi, Stan.
I realized the problem was that the colors for the selected buttons on the Blu-ray version display darker than they do on the DVD. So I was being fooled into thinking the selected buttons weren't selected. Anyway, this was pilot error on my part. I just need to monkey with the color menu until I get the BR to approximate the DVD. Thanks. Cheers, Steve

Blu-ray flashing up last frame when navigating

hi people
I've got a small but rather ugly problem with a blu-ray disc i'm authoring.
When navigating to and from the main menu the last frame of the previous timeline or menu flashes up. So for example I'm watching timeline A and I hit the menu button on the remote the picture jumps to black for half a second, then flashes the last frame of timeline A for 5 frames and then proceeds to the menu. The same thing happens the other way, i'm browsing a menu and when I activate a button the screen jumps to black, then flashes up the menu again for 5 frames then starts playing the selected timeline.
The navigation works but the experience is super clumsy. Is there any way to smooth this transition. I don't mind the jumps, I just don't want the secondary flash of the last frame.
I should add that these are static menus with only a couple of buttons and very simple navigation. Playing on a Sony player, Sony burner, authored using Encore on a Mac.
Any suggestions greatly appreciated.
cheers../daniel

Hi,
I'm quite sure that Encore is doing some "quirks" with BlueRay.
I have everytime a 2/3 second freezing time when Buttons appears after looping time.
Probably due to bit differences that various BR player have. (I have a Sony).
I'm also quite sure you'll not have this problem if you burn a DVD (as I did and noticed).
Sorry, no ideas to help you but please post solutions in case you'll get.
Ciao
Giorgio

What is the best way to burn to disk in Encore?? (without using the Blu-ray option)

I am trying to put together a video for my sister (who lives in the UK) of her wedding, that she can watch on her dvd/blu-ray player as a movie with scenes and menus. So, initally, I am using Encore to create menus/scenes and prior to this, used premiere pro to edit sequences and chop up/edit the video. I realise that while i am in premiere pro, I can queue it up and have the option to change the format of my files to AVI, MPEG, H.264 etc to maximise the best quality. I then take that file (or files) and bring them into encore and begin creating my scenes and menus.
Once i am happy with the final result, I then aim to burn this to a disc where i can then send it to her so that she and her newly wed hubby can invite their friends/family around to their place and remember that fabulous day together. Where i am getting stuck is when it comes to burning that file using encore as it only offers to build the project for DVD or Blu-ray. Since i dont have a blu-ray burner, it seems that my only option is to select DVD. Obviously DVD is SD and the resolution for this is 720*480. This doesnt work for me, because once i burn it to dvd, i lose almost half the quality of the original video. I have a few questions here that hopefuly someone can help me with:
1. Whats the point of encoding the timeline in premiere pro to a really high quality file such as H.264 if encore only offers DVD, Blu-ray or Flash? (I mean, why have this if you only have a dvd burner?)
2. Since i dont have a blu-ray burner, is there another way around taking my high res movie and putting it onto a DVD without loss of quality?
3. Is there any other possible way (or settings to use) before burning it to a dvd that i could tweak to avaoid loss of quality?
4. Should i perhaps be using some other way, rather than trying to create an ISO file in encore that will allow me to put this file on a dvd, which will still have a scenes and menu titles? (Meaning, so that it is just not an avi file sitting on a dvd, but rather it actually looks like a movie, with scenes, music in the background etc)?
Feel free to check out the orginial movie i cut up in post production at the link belwo. i did not shoot this vidoe so i am unsure as to what video camera was being used. All i was told, is that it was a fairly modern one (2012 i think). My sister merely sent me all the video and pictures and i just edited it in premiere pro, and now want to send it back to her in a format/way that she can watch it on her television with options to jump to scenes, just like when you watch a dvd movie at home.
Here is the link - https://vimeo.com/71008272
Thanks for your help guys.

No, you can't burn a DVD with HD resolution files and have DVD or similar style navigation.
The solution is to buy a bluray burner.
The workaround is to create an HD version of the files in Premiere, but for the future. In the meantime, export MPEG2-DVD from Premiere, and use those in Encore for this project. During the export from Premiere is where you downrez and lose quality. Your sister should play this back on a player that supports upscaling.

CS4 Blu-ray subtitles not displayed correctly

Hi all,
I have been trying to find anything regarding my issue with Blu-ray subtitles using Google and the search function on this forum, but I could not find anything about it.
I have a CS4 Blu-ray project with one main timeline and a few other timelines (to be "extras" on the Blu-ray). On the main timeline I imported two subtitle tracks from a Text file and chose the default import settings in Encore. The first subtitle track is English and the second subtitle track is Dutch, but it also happens when I just import one subtitle track.
The other timelines (for the extras) do not contain any subtitle track (as they do not require it), but the issue also appears when I only added the main time line (as first play) without any menus etc.
The issue is that at first the subtitles seem to display correctly when a Blu-ray burnt from this project is played on a standalone Blu-ray player (Panasonic DMP-BD30 with latest firmware). However, when I skip to another chapter (using the remote's "Next" or "Previous" button), or fast forward or rewind the video on the player the subtitles are gone and will never return. Also when the main timeline is played without any skipping or fast forwarding etc. the subtitles suddenly disappeared and reappeared after some time.
When checking the imported subtitles in the Encore project's time line display, all subtitles are in place.
Additionally, the Blu-ray player's "Subtitle" button does not bring up a selection of available subtitles (which it does on other commercially available Blu-rays), while the timelines allowed actions are set to "All" (the default).
I have also checked the Encore project's "Sources" folder and found .png images for all of the subtitle texts I imported, so it seems that all subtitles are available.
Does anyone have seen this issue before and know how to solve it?
Note: it might be of interest that the main timeline is a single H.264 encoded video file of approx. 7Gb playing for approx 45 minutes. The format is 1080/50i (PAL HDV in the resolution 1440x1080).

The short answer is that you can't use a subtitle menu successfully until Adobe does an Encore update which was working in a special build that I saw at NAB but never made it info a formal release.
The problem is that the generated Blu-ray instructions for selecting the subtitle (and audio) tracks is just plain wrong. The way it was supposed to work is that a GPR (general purpose register) was supposed to retain the selected value, but among other things the code always immediately clears the register after saving the correct value.
There was a similar but different problem in CS4 and we devised a solution with our BluStreak Premaster application, by post-processing the Encore build folder prior to burning or replication.
http://blustreak.dvdafteredit.com/
However to fix the CS5 code would require re-multiplexing of the menus, at which point we gave up, since we don't have a Blu-ray multiplexer. Don't consider going back to CS4, however, since in most other respects the CS5 navigation is far superior.
So your best bet is to ping on Adobe and ask them, when are you going to release this fix?
With these bugs, the only way to properly set audio and subtitle tracks is with the remote functions themselves, or by using set stream and link directly to the main video from a normal menu.
Regards,
Larry Applegate
Rivergate Software, Inc.
This answer was originally posted on the Creative Cow forum, and then edited to remove an answer to a question that wasn't asked here.

Are *.MPEG2TS files somthing a software Blu-ray player should recognise?

Purchased Product = WinDVD 9 plus Blu-ray as a retail boxed product from PC World in the UK.
Problem = Above product does not appear to support reading Blu-ray files created in Adobe Encore CS3.
Adobe Encore CS3 user manual states = Building the finished product - Blu-ray folder builds a Blu-ray directory folder structure on your hard drive. You can play the program using a Blu-ray software player and the directory behaves behaves just like a disc, including having full navigational abilities.
The rusulting folder produce by Adobe contains, amongst other sub-folders, a list of files in a BDMV folder with a sub-folder named Stream which contains a list of files with MPEG2TS extensions (i.e. *.MPEG2TS).
The Blu-ray folder has been built in 1080p resolution.
I purchased WinDVD 9 plus Blu-ray software in order to play the Blu-ray files prior to burning to Blu-ray Discs. The retail box states on the outside that the product supports MPEG-2 HD.
Therefore my question is this, are the *.MPEG2TS Adobe encore files produced not a universal standard and what is the difference between *.MPEG2TS and MPEG-2HD.
Computer is a Sony Vaio VGN-AR71ZU Laptop running Vista Ultimate SP1 with two e-SATA external HDD enclosures connected via Sonett Tempo SATA ExpressCard|34 interface. Intel Core 2 Duo T9300 2.50GHz Processor, 4GB DDR2 SD RAM, NVidia Ge Force 8600M GT CPU Graphics. System drive consists of two 320Gb HDD's in RAID 0 configuration, and a Blu-ray Read/Write optical drive. In Standard Definition the files are contained within the Video-TS folder and work fine.

Yes it is possible to do you will need :
A hardware similar to this:
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And free hard drive space of around 30 to 100 GB depending of the work you will attempt
I hope this helps

How do I make interactive DVD/Blu-Ray menus with motion?

So, adobe doesn't support Encore anymore which means I can't use dynamic link to AE to create interactive DVD/Blu-Ray menus with motion.... or can I? Is there something I'm doing wrong? While in Encore, I go to dynamic link and boom, dynamic link to AE is not highlighted. If I can't make an interactive menu with motion using adobe, then what can I use? This is causing a major problem for me and my clients. (if i over looked the answer to this in another post, my apologies)

You can use the "Create After Effects Composition." This prompts you to create an independent version of the Encore PSD menu file, and opens the layered file in AE CC and creates a new composition with appropriate settings. AE no longer has mpeg export, so you export from AE to AME.
There were some workflow options that I did not play with much, but they were never what I saw as the basics for using AE to create the motion background.
You need to understand these two help pages:
Adobe Encore * Menu timing and looping
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/encore/cs/using/WSF49EA5DB-3743-49c2-9831-F66328B192F8.html
Adobe Encore * Using After Effects to enhance menus
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/encore/cs/using/WSA5513911-0AD1-440c-BDAD-2E0E806B425E.html
I'm not sure what you mean by "interactive" unless you just mean creating navigation.

Blu-ray requests

1. I have been making blu-rays using CS3 and CS4 with h.264 assets. The h.264s are 720p 59.94. I use one timeline for my projects with multiple assets. for some reason when I make a disc image and a disc from that image, both encore CS3 and CS4 put a extra chapter at 33 seconds into my longer assets where there is no chapter marker on my timeline. I have checked on my timeline in premiere and have no chapter markers there either.
2. In CS4 between my assets the finished blu-ray will play between 10seconds and 2minutes of black before moving onto the next asset on the timeline. CS3 does not have this problem. So I have been using it instead of CS4 for all my blu-ray projects.
3. Neither CS3 or CS4 puts invisible chapter markers at the end of assets like it does for DVDs. So if I have assets on multiple timelines and the video is playing between the last chapter on that timeline and the end of the timeline, the user cannot skip forward to the next timeline. Instead they have to wait the remaining duration of the current timeline. I have tried putting manual chapter markers on the end of my timelines but they don't go exactly at the end of assets because of restrictions on the timeline to where you can put chapter markers. It looks really awful because you see the last bit of the remaining timeline before the disc continues onto the next.
3. Navigation functionality: The menu remote button does not work with blu-rays in encore and there is no way to skip backward to previous timelines.
This is a problem because users have to go back to the very beginning of a disc and skip forward until they get to the chapter they want and if they go to far, have to start all over again at the beginning of the disc.
These are my main problems that I have to get fixed. Numbers 1 and 2 are the most important. If I can have all my assets on one timeline with no extra chapter markers and no black between assets I would not need to worry about using extra timelines.
Thanks
If anyone has any suggestions I am open to any help.

Joe,
Im having the same problems as jbandy. I have authored countless DVDs in Encore from the first version through CS4.This summer I bought my first HD camera, so I decided to move on to authoring in BD. Please dont put the blame on my authoring practices.Ill give you several reasons why!
1. First let me say moving to Win 7 seems to have helped somewhat.
2. Some of us have computer systems that are not up to what the experts run, but still met the minimum requirements to run CS4.
3. I author family videos that run chronologically in one year time frames.With DVDs I have always edited my clips down to fit one years worth
of video on one DVD (1 houe).With BD it has allowed me to extend my finished project up to 2-3 hours.
4. Ive found that I never get a clip perfect with the first edit, so I edit each clip separately. (Many different clips with a scrolling entro that
always gets edited) Now with H264 encoding it takes quite a while to encode. My set up takes 8-10 minutes for each minute of video. I encode all clips in PPro first and then import into Encore(no need to let Encore encode). I then let Encore transcode the audio.I will rename the encoded AC3 files to match the original wave files and use them in the project.I started doing this because I was building and rebuilding the project trying to get one that would work as it should. (no pause between clips and or the forward and back buttons to work on the remote.) The forward and back buttons always work in the preview mode in En.
5. It is be impractal to try and encode a 3.5 hour video all at one time on all but the most powerful systems.(I have done it) At this point all assets are good to go.
6. Now heres where it gets dicey. I have two finished projects.The first was built with one time line (3 hours 17 minutes).I built and burned this project many (countless) times trying to get the pause between each chapter to a minimum,(ok but not up to what I would really like to see) (all the forward and back buttons work on the remote).Its finally acceptable but I dont know what I did to make it so, (because so many rebuilds).I tried project one with both a single timeline and multiple timelines with a playlist. Project 2 was finished with multiple time lines with a playlist. I can navigate forward except for chapter 5(go figure) but cannot navigate backward with the remote.
7. Now the conclusion, Project 2 seems to be the more acceptable (with playlist). Both projects work perfect in the preview window in EN cs4.I build an image file and use ImgBurn for all my burning. Now for the coup de graus. I cant get another good burned BD out of the original image file! Im using Memorex BD-RE and a Buffalo external burner.I dont know whose fault it is I cant replicate a good burned BD.But I dont think its OE!(but maybe).
So Ive just acceped what I ended up with, until Adobe, Memorex or Buffalo gives me a better product.
Thanks for listening
Kent
PS. I really appreciate this forumn, have followed the posts for years, and have helped me tremendeslly.Im retired and dont have a life except for making videos of my GRANDCHILDREN.

Partial Audio Missing on Blu Ray Disc

I have a project that is approximately 90 minutes that was created in Premiere CC. When I burn a Blu Ray disc for this project using Encore CS6, and subsequently play the disc in a Blu Ray player, the last 4-5 minutes of audio is missing. It plays perfectly all the way through in Encore when I watch it in the monitor, and if I play the audio file separately on my computer, the entire thing is there. I don't understand what could possibly cause this issue. No matter how I transcode, MPEG2, H.264, etc. it still has the issue during playback on a Blu Ray device. Any suggestions?

Regarding Encore building a Blu Ray disc and having the audio quit part way through the video, I also have experienced that nasty problem.
From reading the Ray Tisdale postings on this issue, I discover that I had a similar problem, and have discovered a resolution which I wanted to share, to help others experiencing this mystery (which I have no doubt there are).
My project is 15 chapters of story, one hour 10 minutes total, a documentary, developed in chapters using Permier Pro in CS6. These were developed separately, exported to files separately, imported into Encore, then placed in sequence on a single timeline. This is how I am accustomed to doing it, having recently migrated to CS6 from Sony Vegas Pro 12.0/DVD Architect 6.0 (If DVD Architect did not blast the image resolution down to approximately VHS when producing DVDs, I would still be using it). The project in question was originally developed using Sony Vegas, but I could not get image quality up to decent standards (two years of messing around, debugging, dealing with tech support, and etc.), so I ported the entire video image for image and word for word to CS6, essentially manually remaking the entire video for the second time (a six month part time effort).
Reading Ray Tinsdale's post gave me the clue as to what might be happening with my project. As a BD I would experience full program operation when Previewing and when burning a DVD, but a Blu Ray build would make a disc that started off fine - three complex menus with music and the first chapter working fine (audio and video) but part way throuigh the second chapter the audio just quit and stayed missing for the remainder of the video (images were fine, full BD resolution).
No amount of effort would resolve the problem. Besides trying multiple changes - such as synchronizing file format of all audio, and innumerable other attempts at guessing the cause - this (requiring about two days of my time) included taking a brand new Solid State Drive, installing Windows 7 from distribution disc, installing all computer drivers, and only software necessary to run CS6 (including Encore), update windows (192 updates) and CS6, and all other software, and protect from internet virus (etc.). A computer as fresh new as it could be from the factory still produced the same problem when Encore made a BD disc. This effort narrowed the problem down to being an Encore problem. P.S. I had done the same with Vegas Pro to determine the image resolution was an internal Vegas problem, not my use of the program or details/settings of my project.
On reading Ray Tisdale's resolution I revised my project to have 17 timelines (including two others besides my 15 story chapters - such as splash screen and etc.). Timelines are linked as necessary to play as if the chapters were sequentially placed on one timeline. After some brief and trivial debugging using the check project function, I rendered to a folder - discovering that the audio was not missing, although I was unable to get it to play as a BD disc from the folder. With this success I burned a BD disc and now I have a BD video with audio from start to finish.
Although I now have a working video with audio start to finish (as I designed my documentary), there is an annoying pause between chapters as the BD player shifts between files (each chapter/timeline is built into a separete file and linked as specified). From my DVD Architect experience I know that the only resolution to this (pause between chapters when playing on DVD or BD player) is to produce a single rendered output file combinining all chapters in Premier Pro, then to render it as a single huge output file (requiring an equally huge amount of time - this was 12 hours with Vegas Pro, and I have not yet tried it using PP). When the single huge output file is imported into Encore and placed on one timeline chapter markers are inserted at appropriate points, so that navigation menus can function as designed.
Now, I suppose that I am better off than with Sony Vegas. Both have extraordinarily annoying and mysterious deficiencies and bugs (which the program vendors will not admit) and extraordinarily annoying problems. But at least with CS6 I get good quality video images.

Blu Ray Workflow: FCP7 to Toast Titanium 11

Good Afternoon,
I'm trying to get a grip on the workflow for burning a Blu Ray Disc for a client.
I'm working in FCP7 - have Roxio Toast Titanium 11 as well as a Buffalo Blu Ray Burner.
Can anyone provide me a step by step for taking a finished FCP7 project, running it through compressor with the correct settings and then how to take that and create a Blu Ray in Toast Titanium 11 with a menu.
Much appreciated! Cheers!
Keith

From FCP-7, export a QuickTime movie of your finished sequence, Self Contained and Without Conversion.
Go to the menu File > Export > QuickTime Movie . . . .
and in the navigation pane that opens make sure Settings is set to Current Settings and Make Movie Self Contained is checked.
Open Toast 11, click on the Video Tab and from the Drop Down menu choose Blu-Ray video.
Drag the QuickTime movie you exported from FCP-7 into the Toast Drop zone.
Select your destination media and buner at the bottom.
Set up your menu and other options in the right panel. Toast is not known for having great, or flexible, menus but the menu choices they offer are there.
When done click the Burn button and Toast will properly encode the video, and then burn the disc for use on most set-top Blu-Ray players. Early Blu-Ray players may or may not support home-made blu-ray discs, most players made in the last few years do.
MtD

Burning both a DVD and Blu-Ray

So I have a project going in Premiere that I've sent to Encore. I picked new DVD project and it transcoded it correctly. I then set up multiple menus and burned it to DVD. Now I want to make a high-def version for Blu-Ray. Is there a way to do that by just re-encoding the video from Premiere so I don't have to recreate all of my menus, timeline markers, etc. in Encore? I just need to swap out the HD video for the SD video in Encore.

Stan Jones wrote:
Thnks for that feedback Alan. I wonder if, doing the resizing in photoshop using "edit in photoshop," there would be a way to keep the navigation in place? I assume by new project you are resizing in photoshop, but bringing this into a brand new project?
I tend to play safe by saving the BR menu as a file, then opening that in Photoshop and scaling. If I use a still as background I usually scale that separately. The navigation survives, but due to the Encore's default automatic routing of buttons (unless you know a way to turn that off) I still have to reset it to my personal preference.
Obviously, I always work BR to DVD, as there can be difficulties with button sub-pictures -circular dots can turn out with a chord slice missing, etc.
Yes it is a brand new project, which means there can be a lot of work to repeat. Because I use chapter playlists a lot, I have a project saved to use as a template, with a couple of timelines and a dozen playlists each. That cuts out some of the tedium.

Preview works, Blu-Ray disc doesn't!!!

I've finished my adobe encore project and when I preview the work, it works fine. For example, my button that links to my next menu where my video files are located comes up fine in preview mode. The same thing for when I click on one, it starts up fine as do my chapters as well. The problem is after my disc is burned - once the main menu comes up it quickly goes to the next menu and starts the first file. I've tried pressing the title button on my remote but it continues to do the same error.

You mention playing chapters. Are you using Chapter Playlists? If so, this could be your problem - Blu-ray does not allow for Chapter Playlists.
Despite this, the navigation is often OK when tested in Encore, but the BD will not play correctly in a player.

Blu-ray build: no video (solid red, green, etc image)

Hey everyone,
If this problem has already been addressed, could someone please point me in the right direction? I searched and didn't find anything similar, but wasn't too sure what to search for.
My problem: Everytime I build a blu-ray project in Encore, I am getting the same result; the video will play (according to the progress bar on the player), but the image is always a solid color, sometimes it's red, green, tan, black, apparently just random, but always the same color throughout the entire video.
I have tried so many different things at this point, I'm at a loss for how to proceed further. I've tried this with at least three different projects, all of which were created in Premiere. I have attempted both the dynamic link from Premiere to Encore and exporting the video first and importing into Encore later. I have tried transcoding as .264 and MPEG2 (I am not very knowledgeable about the settings, so I use the defaults). I have tried building the project in Encore as a blu-ray folder and as an ISO. I have burned to discs and played just the digital files on my PC.
The video always plays fine up until after it is exported from Encore (that is, it previews fine in Premiere, exported video from Premiere plays fine in players like VLC, and the video previews fine in Encore).And I have no trouble building DVDs in Encore with the same video, timeline, and all that jazz.
The only thing I haven't done yet is gone to the trouble of trying to reinstall Encore, which will be my next step if noone here has any suggestions. I am running CS6 with all recent updates. I have been testing the blu-ray playback in PowerDVD and a PS3.
Like I mentioned above, I'm not very proficient in video. If I left out important details, just let me know. Thanks in advance for any help!
Matt

When I play the m2ts file, it works fine in VLC and also in PowerDVD. That's interesting, but I'm not sure what that means?
If the actual m2ts file from the Encore build does not show the problem, but what I assume is the same file on disk (or in iso) shows the problem, what could cause such a problem? (I don't know.) The more frequent oddity is a problem on burned disk and not on iso or folder, which points to the burner, burn speed, or media. But that does not appear to be the issue here.
I can't find the example at the moment, but try creating a tiny bluray project and see if the problem occurs. If so, you can upload it for me to take a look.
For example, one menu with one button, linked to a 30 second timeline, using a sample of your material that is causing the problem. If that shows the problem, I would also try a bars and tones sample to eliminat your actual video - although I assume your video is part of the equation.

Problems with blu-ray pop-up menus

I made the mistake of tacking this question/problem onto another similar post, so here it is again for some:
I got this error message near the end of the disc build:
Blu-ray Error: "fatal error". Code: "6", Note: "Graphics buffer underflows. - Failed to multiplex with maximum IG PTS: 54900000 (in 90kHz).
The blu-ray project I am working on is an 87 min live concert with about 8 other much shorter timelines. The main menu has 6 buttons with a motion background. There are few submenus as well, but the problem came when I started making pop-up menus for the various timelines.
This is the first project where I really had to explore the possibliltes and limitations of Encore's pop-up menus. I burned a test disc with just a basic pop-up menu to see how the menu's opacity would look over the final video. All the video assets were set to to transcode "Automatically". All audio assets are blu-ray compliant Surround ac3's or 16-bit stereo WAV's so could be left as "Don't Transcode". This disc burned perfectly.
I then went through the pretty involved process of making a final version of the main pop-up menus. The main concert's pop-up menu has 5 pages (including page 0). There are specific pop-up menus for other timelines, but those have no more than 2 pages. None of the menus have more than 10 buttons.
I tried to burn the disc, and it came back with the error above. After reading some other posts, I thought it was worth a try to delete the AuthorScriptHDMVSessions folder before starting a new burn since it was already filled with files from my test burn. That didn't help.
Any insight or recommendations would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.

After countless tests and research, I finally have a successfully burned blu-ray with WORKING multi-page pop-up menus (that I am happy with). Thank you to all the people who gave theoretical guidance and suggestions in emails and other posts. There has been no shortage of oddities and obstacles to overcome when just trying to make a simple blu-ray. Unfortunately, I did not have the time to accurately pinpoint what was causing the original error message. The project just needed to get done.
The main pop-up menu has 4 pages, with 13 buttons on each page. Only about 5 - 9 of the "buttons" on each page are actual buttons that link anywhere. The other buttons on each page only serve as the remaining pieces of the menu's background and cannot be accessed on the final disc. Totally ridiculous way to make the backgrounds for pop-up menus, but it works.
Some of the other things I learned regarding pop-up menus + Encore misc:
1. If at all possible, totally create a menu .psd BEFORE bringing it into an Encore project. Make the button order in the .psd what you want it to end up being in the end (bottom layer is button 1). If you start editing and saving order after it has been brought in, Encore will almost always revert it back to some strange (possibly original) button order. You will spend all your time re-routing button navigation and changing their numbers, only to find out later that Encore has changed it all back without notice.
2. As many people state, it is best to have Encore do as little thinking as possible. All of my button groups originally had Text Layers within them with some fx applied. I merged each text layer down into that button's background layer to essentially rasterize the text with the fx applied. Each (+) button group therefore only had a higlight layer and a background layer. After doing this for all the buttons, the .psd file size was greatly reduced. Naturally I saved a copy before going through the merging process in case I ever had to go back and edit the text.
3. Originally the background for the pop-up menus were made from a rectangle cut-out of the background of the main menu. This was the width of the frame and around 1/5 of the height. I had changed the opacity to around 60%, and cut up the pieces to go with their respective buttons. For the final disc, I just made a shape with the Rounded Rectangle Tool, and filled it with a solid colour. It is probably only about half the size of the original pop-up menu's background. I changed its opacity as well, but then merged it with a blank layer so Encore didn't have to think about the opacity setting.
4. I encoded all the video elements BEFORE they were brought into the project. There are some issues with the way the file sizes are interpretted by Encore, but I won't trust it to encode anything again.
5. For some reason Encore wants to transcode 16-bit, 48.0 kHz .aiff files when making a blu-ray, but 16-bit, 48.0 kHz .wav files do NOT need trancoding (for both dvds and blu-rays).

Blu-ray disk plays with snowy pictures at the beginning

I need help with a new issue with my burning (Win 7 Pro, CS5.0 from Adobe's original installation disks, LG BD-rewriter; different BD-R, BD-RE blank disks: Sony, Philips, Kodak).
While playing within Encore with the "Preview From Here" feature doesn't show any problem, burning (either directly from Encore, or from file with ImgBurn) and playing for the TV on the Blu-ray player (Panasonic DMP BDT330), every once in a while, the beginning of some menu items plays a snowy noise intermittent with some black frames for anywhere between 3 - 6 seconds. Playing back several times, this issue happens at the beginning of different menu items (and mainly when playing a playlist with the same items).
Playing commercial Blu-ray disks, or my older Blu-ray disks, there is nothing wrong with the playback.
It seems to me that this is something either that Encore or the LG OD does. Before I start reinstalling the CS5 suite (removing it with Revo first), I would greatly appreciate any idea about the cause of this behavior.
Also, it would help me to eliminate some of the possible culprits if I could play back the Blu-ray disk directly from my BD drive. I would appreciate any suggestion for a good and tested software (free, or paid for) that would not interfere with Adobe (or mess up my "pristine" OS ).
Thank you very much,
Laci.
P.S. My guess at this point is that the culprit is the BD burner. While commercial DVD/BDs are "pressed", home burners use PCM (phase change memory - and also memories from my Intel years working on their reliability). If the burner laser gets older/defective, then the melting/recristallisation of the PCM lmemory element might not be "perfect", and when it is read, it sometimes gives the wrong response (even with ECC which I am not sure they employ in DVDs).
I am still waiting for, and greatly appreciate, some advice before I rush to buy a new burner or reinstall the whole CS5.
Thanks,
Laci.
P.P.S. Sorry for all these information most of which is probably irrelevant (especially the PCM memory part ). I opened (should have done first) the BD disk on my computer and checked the m2ts files in BDMV > STREAM > *.m2ts. They all (including the motion menus) play flawlessly on the computer with WMP. So, the burning and playback of these files causes no problem. The problem most probably comes when Encore builds the navigation. Since the motion menus on the disk also play without any hickups, I assume that it is the Encore itself that causes these problems. I am going to reinstall CS5. (The still open question at this point is, how it is possible that this snowy few seconds before some of these m2ts files does not always happen at the same m2ts file playing back the same BD disk on the TV.)
I would still appreciate some input from the expert users.
BTW, is there any program out there whith what I could substitute Adobe Encore? (This is the only weak spot of the entire suite ).
- Laci.

the beginning of some menu items plays a snowy noise intermittent with some black frames for anywhere between 3 - 6 seconds. Playing back several times, this issue happens at the beginning of different menu items (and mainly when playing a playlist with the same items).
What does menu items mean? I assume that it is menus themselves, not timeline movies?
What could Encore do that would create this? I don't know, but assume that it is more likely to do with disk seek problems and the like. And yes, where things are put physically on the disk can be an issue. But burn/disk issues are more likely.
Have you tried this on a different player?

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