Complete Novice Seeking Help with Strange Authoring Idea

[Libertine90]

Hey there! Brand new member here with a potentially rather strange request but this looked like the place to get the answers. I’m on a MacBook Pro and I have indeed burned a few blu-ray discs before, most recently using Leawo to author the image and then burning with Toast. For the past few weeks I’ve been working on collecting and editing the individual videos for a crazy project I got into my head, my Glam + Glitter Video Jukebox, based on a playlist of my favorite (mostly) 70s “glam rock” era classics. I finally finished the clip gathering/editing last night and it’s just over 30GB, about 225 videos, and all MP4 files at 29.97 fps and 1080p.



So what I’m hoping I can achieve with burning to an actual disc is having no menus or anything, just a blu-ray disc authored to automatically play and randomly generate and shuffle between all these individual clips, with no gap at all in between, so it’s never the same playlist any time you press play, and definitely no clips are repeated after they’ve played once (since this is well over 13 hours total).



Please, please, please tell me there’s a way to make this work. I’ve worked so hard on this already and I just want to be able to make this silly little dream a reality. Thanks so much! xxtyler

[Cornucopia]

There IS a way to make this work. Just not on a Mac.
And you would need somewhat more advanced (read $$) Bluray authoring software. Certainly much more than Toast is able to do. Most likely, Blu-Disc Studio Lite is probably your cheapest option.


Scott

[Libertine90]

There IS a way to make this work. Just not on a Mac.
And you would need somewhat more advanced (read $$) Bluray authoring software. Certainly much more than Toast is able to do. Most likely, Blu-Disc Studio Lite is probably your cheapest option.


Scott

Oh gosh, I was afraid of that. Well, I wonder if I might be able to find any friends who have that or access to it. But thanks for your reply!

[lordsmurf]

Menu-less discs are my preference, and this is simple to do in TAW
https://tmpgenc.pegasys-inc.com/en/product/taw7.html

Windows only, not Mac.

Apple has always been very anti-video, aside from their "blessed"/approved workflows (SD DV, HD MOV). Great platform, just not for most video work.

Leawo is scammy Chinese software (Chinaware), example, wrappers on freeware. I'd have to double check, but I think they're also rampant spammers on video sites, or at least were in the past. Fake reviews, etc.

[Libertine90]

Menu-less discs are my preference, and this is simple to do in TAW
https://tmpgenc.pegasys-inc.com/en/product/taw7.html

Windows only, not Mac.

Apple has always been very anti-video, aside from their "blessed"/approved workflows (SD DV, HD MOV). Great platform, just not for most video work.

Leawo is scammy Chinese software (Chinaware), example, wrappers on freeware. I'd have to double check, but I think they're also rampant spammers on video sites, or at least were in the past. Fake reviews, etc.

Thanks for that! And sorry if I completely missed it on that page, but would this program allow me to author the BD to always randomly generate/shuffle the videos like I’m wanting?

[lordsmurf]

I'm not aware of any way to shuffle within the disc contents. The player must handle the shuffle.

[Libertine90]

Still struggling with this. And I’m just curious if it would be worth it to try to get a cheaper PC just for these types of projects as it seems that all of the programs still available only work on Windows?

[cholla]

Still struggling with this. And I’m just curious if it would be worth it to try to get a cheaper PC just for these types of projects as it seems that all of the programs still available only work on Windows?

Keep in mind if you decide on another PC for Windows.
When working with video the more CPU cores the better.
This probably holds true for the GPU as well as some programs can use the GPU to speed things up.
"Cheap" is probably not the way to go.

[Libertine90]

Still struggling with this. And I’m just curious if it would be worth it to try to get a cheaper PC just for these types of projects as it seems that all of the programs still available only work on Windows?

Keep in mind if you decide on another PC for Windows.
When working with video the more CPU cores the better.
This probably holds true for the GPU as well as some programs can use the GPU to speed things up.
"Cheap" is probably not the way to go.

There’s something else I was afraid of. I’ve had no issue burning “normal” BDs on my MacBook but of course this particular project I just had to create to cause problems. I’d hate to buy another computer just for this one project so it’d really be easier to find someone who already has the capabilities who could just write the disc image for me. I’ve already got all the videos uploaded to GoogleDrive too

[Libertine90]

So I ended up purchasing Toast 20 Pro last night and decided to try to play around with it a bit today. I originally had Toast Titanium on my MacBook and discovered I could only have 98 titles max for a video blu-ray disc (and I had 226 individual videos) so I created about 45 "grouped" videos with chapter markers. I originally started thinking about Toast again because I had seen a few things on the web about being able to make "playlists" amongst the slideshows and other options and then being able to include a "shuffle play" button in the menu. Toast 20 already seems a lot better just for the option of being able to better customize menus and so on, but, unless I'm just blatantly missing it, I'm finding no "playlist" option so far.

Does anyone here possibly have any better ideas or more familiar with this most current version of Toast? And thanks so much again for your replies and advice thus far.

[Cornucopia]

Both the DVD Video spec and the Bluray spec specify up to 99 titles, with up to 99 chapters in each. So, if you have >99 items, and you want to keep them on 1 disc, you MUST combine some and use chapter markers, with or without playlists.

Regarding Toast, remember, it has ALWAYS been a burning app, with a few extra features. It is not now, nor ever has been, a true authoring (or editing) app. We've already suggested the way to go with that...


Scott