New to Blu-ray but experienced video editer

[Derekfoxes]

New Pc Win7 64bit i72600K kit. UK and so PAL on Blu-ray disk.

All my 9mm film digitised and camcorder stuff on MiniDV.

Used Pinnacle Studio for years to make VCD and DVD, but Pinnacle have lost there way.

Recomended Sony Vegas Movie Studio HD Platinum 11, now out. Looks good on paper but a review said not able to make menues on Blu-ray!

Is there an addon that will make discs that will have menus?

Any comments and advice welcomed for a now old man. Is there a good UK book for this?

[poisondeathray]

Doesn't it come with DVD Architect Studio? It says so on the feature list. And the DVDA Studio page says it can make menus
http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/moviestudiope/compare

Vegas Pro can 't make menus either, that's done in DVD Architect Pro which is bundled, but a separate authoring application .

Here are the differences between the Pro and Studio version of DVDA
http://www.custcenter.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/4635/~/dvd-architect-studio-vs.-dvd-architect-pro

[Derekfoxes]

Thank you so much poisiondeathray, such help and so quick.

Will order imediately, have so much Sony stuff should have trusted it would be good.

Must be getting old to trust a review.

[edDV]

Also multiavchd can make limited menus for so called "AVCHD" discs. Any Blu-Ray standard including SD/HD MPeg2, h.264 or VC-1 formats can be used for "AVCHD" discs.

[Backpain]

TMPGEnc Authoring Works 4 works for me to make Blu-Ray disc's. I have made about 10 and all seems well. You can use premade menu's or make your own from scratch with backgrounds of your choice, menu buttons and many more features. If you look at what others tell you about TMPGEnc's software, many are not happy with the results. I am no expert at editing with all the free software because it seems so complicated. I have learned from trial and error method and used DVD-RW and CD-RW before I make any final versions to see how the project would look. Me, for myself I am very happy with the out come of each disc's. All of my Blu-Ray's are just as good. And that is just my opinion from a non-technical home user.

[mobie29]

I am very happy with this software for authoring blu ray discs. I will vouch for this.

[Derekfoxes]

Also multiavchd can make limited menus for so called "AVCHD" discs. Any Blu-Ray standard including SD/HD MPeg2, h.264 or VC-1 formats can be used for "AVCHD" discs.

Thanks for message.

Too new to Bru-ray to be sure of myself but think this is new camcorder standard.

My stuff is all on ratio 3/4 MiniDV tapes of very old age.

[Derekfoxes]

TMPGEnc Authoring Works 4 works for me to make Blu-Ray disc's. I have made about 10 and all seems well. You can use premade menu's or make your own from scratch with backgrounds of your choice, menu buttons and many more features. If you look at what others tell you about TMPGEnc's software, many are not happy with the results. I am no expert at editing with all the free software because it seems so complicated. I have learned from trial and error method and used DVD-RW and CD-RW before I make any final versions to see how the project would look. Me, for myself I am very happy with the out come of each disc's. All of my Blu-Ray's are just as good. And that is just my opinion from a non-technical home user.

Thanks for message.

I now have the Sony Vegas Movie Studio HD Platinum Suit 11 for my new purpose built PC. Looks good and specificly says does what I want.

Very fortunate to be able to afford this as a bit of a swan song for my old material.

Was not always so, bought a secondhand clockwork movie camera for a chance of a lifetime visit to the USA in 1958. The 8mm silent Kodachrome was 4 ASA (Not 40). 15 hour flight in propeller aircraft, August heat/Humitiy on the NY side. Showed it everywhere after for years. Children came and 2 reels a year of them growing up only. Then a good career.

[edDV]

Also multiavchd can make limited menus for so called "AVCHD" discs. Any Blu-Ray standard including SD/HD MPeg2, h.264 or VC-1 formats can be used for "AVCHD" discs.

Thanks for message.

Too new to Bru-ray to be sure of myself but think this is new camcorder standard.

My stuff is all on ratio 3/4 MiniDV tapes of very old age.

Now I am confused which format your "3/4 MiniDV tapes" are and how you are playing them.

Please identify the model number of the playback device and the video format on the tape.

[Derekfoxes]

Also multiavchd can make limited menus for so called "AVCHD" discs. Any Blu-Ray standard including SD/HD MPeg2, h.264 or VC-1 formats can be used for "AVCHD" discs.

Thanks for message.

Too new to Bru-ray to be sure of myself but think this is new camcorder standard.

My stuff is all on ratio 3/4 MiniDV tapes of very old age.

Now I am confused which format your "3/4 MiniDV tapes" are and how you are playing them.

Please identify the model number of the playback device and the video format on the tape.

Hi,
Everything is now on the MiniDV as the common way to transfer to the PC, regaurdless of the souce.

The PC has an old Pinnacle card to input the tape data to a HDD. Each tape cartridge, from whatever source, is put in the Sony Camcorder, set to VCR mode, and the cable from the computer card inserted. The tape runs to the end and I have a file on the HDD. The editor picks up the file, and if originaly from the Sony it is stripped, a help.

Since the transfer card is old I will replace it in the new machine.

Hope that is clear, always worked before, but I will have to look up the card name.

[edDV]

IEEE-1394 (Firewire) connection? Alternate capture program is WinDV.

[Derekfoxes]

IEEE-1394 (Firewire) connection? Alternate capture program is WinDV.

Thanks for that, noted

[OnTwoWheels]

Follow-up to Derekfoxes. How goes the video editing and Blu-ray production with Vegas. I use it as well but have been unsuccessful producing a Blu-ray disc that will play on a Sony PS3. Any luck?

[Derekfoxes]

Hi.

Have the new computer componentsand software to build but not able to get to it at the moment. Wife died, a great collector and hoarder so huge amount of clutter to sort and dispose of in what we called an English summer. Not function well in the cold outside so must do it first.

Nice warm house I built on a hill top and will work indoors when impossible outside, especially in snow I cannot cope with in old age.

Wellingtons today to weed our pond, with daughter. Need someone with me to do such things, forbidden such things these days.

But I will get to the editing.

[edDV]

Follow-up to Derekfoxes. How goes the video editing and Blu-ray production with Vegas. I use it as well but have been unsuccessful producing a Blu-ray disc that will play on a Sony PS3. Any luck?

Vegas can encode a Blu-Ray compatible file but you need to author in DVD Architect.

For the PS3 you can just play the file. Not Sure if PS3 supports an "AVCHD disc". Multiavchd has detailed PS3 support.

[OnTwoWheels]

I have used that setting exactly and authored both in Architect and Vegas to no avail.... lots of coasters... PS3 will not even see the disc as a data file. I will explore multiavchd as I am not familiar with it. Hopefully it will shed some light on the whole PS3 thing. My PS3 plays every commercial Blu-ray disc I can feed it along with regular DVD's produced by Architect. Simply frustrating.... Thanks for the info.

[edDV]

I have used that setting exactly and authored both in Architect and Vegas to no avail.... lots of coasters... PS3 will not even see the disc as a data file. I will explore multiavchd as I am not familiar with it. Hopefully it will shed some light on the whole PS3 thing. My PS3 plays every commercial Blu-ray disc I can feed it along with regular DVD's produced by Architect. Simply frustrating.... Thanks for the info.

Does the Blu-Ray disc play in a Blu-Ray player?

If not something is wrong with the the encoding/authoring.

[OnTwoWheels]

Thus far Blu-ray discs rendered and burned directly from Vegas or burned from Architect will play on non PS3 Blu-ray players.... NADA on the PS3 itself. Visually compare the files within the BDMV folders from Vegas/Architect and that from a commerical disc and you don't see any difference, yet the commerical Blu-rays play flawlessly....

[OnTwoWheels]

Mercy.... So I tried Multiavchd to create the image the used ImgBurn to cut the blu-ray disc. No joy on the PS3..... I quit..... It should not be this complicated.

[TreeTops]

This link has some info on why some disks don't work on PS3

[OnTwoWheels]

Technically DVDA meets the file format specifications for PS3 laid out by Sony, thus the DVDA developers have met their obligation and are done. Bar any live testing..... Right now I can burn a Blu-ray disc that plays flawlessly in a Samsung Blu-ray player so this will be my focus and I can get back to exploring the finer points of video editing and production. Thanks

[Cornucopia]

2 Things come to mind: Bad media (which reads ok on other players but not the PS3) and an OLDER FIRMWARE on the PS3 that hasn't been updated to current (could be keeping it from seeing certain kinds of burns).

Scott