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Electrox3d · 07-04-2006

The company I work for is testing blu-ray stuff and got it as a pre-production drive from slidirect.com link to blu-ray page with phone number

Ok, here was my experience with burning a blu-ray HDTV home made movie disc:

Ulead MovieFactory 5 is generally the same as any other movie factory, but with the prerelease blu-ray support you can fill a 25GB movie disc. I think they pulled the module from the final release so they can up it to 50GB burning.

I had captured HD mpg's with FusionHDTV usb2.0 and Ulead took them no sweat. It didn't even have to transcode them; they were already in HD playback format.

The menu system was interesting. They only had one layout, a HD TV slightly to the right of the menu, showing a preview of what title you have selected. Very cool because you can have more titles per page because there is just text, when you hover over the text the TV shows a preview of that HD program.

That's pretty much the only thing different than burning a regular DVD.

The rendering of the menus during output took FOREVER!! I'm sure this was not optimized. For, 5 video clips, two menu pages, and only a 5 second preview of each menu item plus transitions (the menus have beautiful transitions into the movie, or from page to page) the rendering of this took 4 hours. 4HOURS!!!!

Anyway, the disc when it's done is full of files and folders. To be exact it has a total of 10 folders and 300 files. I'm sure there would have been more had I actually had enough HD content to fill the disc. The main folder on the disc is BDMV then inside that is a folder called STREAM which has all the movie content broken up into tons of .m2ts files (?).

I'm still looking for playback software.

I've noticed everyone lies constantly about this. Nero has had press releases saying playback software is said to be in "Nero 6.6 with Showtime2" <-BS!! I have had Nero 6.6, Nero 7, Nero 7.0.8.2 and the latest Showtime2 and no where does the software/website/support ever say blu-ray playback and it doesn't work either.

I'm looking for ANYTHING now to play this thing.

07-04-2006	#9 (permalink)
Electrox3d CD Freaks Junior Member Join Date: Jun 2004 Posts: 96	Re: I just got my first Blu-Ray burner! Whaddo I do? Whaddo I do?? The company I work for is testing blu-ray stuff and got it as a pre-production drive from slidirect.com link to blu-ray page with phone number Ok, here was my experience with burning a blu-ray HDTV home made movie disc: Ulead MovieFactory 5 is generally the same as any other movie factory, but with the prerelease blu-ray support you can fill a 25GB movie disc. I think they pulled the module from the final release so they can up it to 50GB burning. I had captured HD mpg's with FusionHDTV usb2.0 and Ulead took them no sweat. It didn't even have to transcode them; they were already in HD playback format. The menu system was interesting. They only had one layout, a HD TV slightly to the right of the menu, showing a preview of what title you have selected. Very cool because you can have more titles per page because there is just text, when you hover over the text the TV shows a preview of that HD program. That's pretty much the only thing different than burning a regular DVD. The rendering of the menus during output took FOREVER!! I'm sure this was not optimized. For, 5 video clips, two menu pages, and only a 5 second preview of each menu item plus transitions (the menus have beautiful transitions into the movie, or from page to page) the rendering of this took 4 hours. 4HOURS!!!! Anyway, the disc when it's done is full of files and folders. To be exact it has a total of 10 folders and 300 files. I'm sure there would have been more had I actually had enough HD content to fill the disc. The main folder on the disc is BDMV then inside that is a folder called STREAM which has all the movie content broken up into tons of .m2ts files (?). I'm still looking for playback software. I've noticed everyone lies constantly about this. Nero has had press releases saying playback software is said to be in "Nero 6.6 with Showtime2" <-BS!! I have had Nero 6.6, Nero 7, Nero 7.0.8.2 and the latest Showtime2 and no where does the software/website/support ever say blu-ray playback and it doesn't work either. I'm looking for ANYTHING now to play this thing. __________________ <-- Jenny McCarthy and I hanging out at E3... and yes she's wearing a Halo 2 T-shirt.