This is my first BD project. I use Edius for NLE and created a generic HDmpg2 file from HD footage 1920*1080i. I then created a menu using stills etc from the timeline, set chapter points, set the links then when I went to save the project, I got an error, file not found 1003 I think the message was, the project had to be abandoned as I couldn't proceed. Any idea what happened? I see that one has to create different images for BD-R as opposed to BD-RE which is what I had in the burner. I can't locate any reference to this in the admittedly, sparse help section of my copy of 6.3

Any help will be most welcome.

James[/size]

create elementary streams out of Edius and then all will work fine
http://www.videoproductions.com.au/html/blu-ray-export.html (use CBR at 25M for faster encoding)

Hi Anton

I recognise your name from the Edius Forum.

Thanks for the tip, It is now encoding a 2h9m video and taking about 4 hrs on my dual xeon (dual core) 3GHz processor machine, 2.6Gb mem, XP SP3 and 2.5Tb of disk.

The subject of creating BD disks seems to attract a lot of excitement. I wonder where it will lead and which authoring package will become the standard?

I have seen mention of different images, presumably in the menu. if you are writing to BD-R or BD-RE disks. Can you throw any light on this? I have had difficulty in getting an image being used as a background in this project to display correctly. The image was 1920*1080 but only the central portion of the image was displayed even though 16:9 and BD disk writing was selected. Is this the same problem described at the beginning of this para?

James

I have not had any problems with the menu, it displays full screen, be sure you go to project settings, HD transcoding and choose interlaced 1920x1080 for menu encoding if the footage is interlaced, this will allow a smooth jump from menu to movie
http://www.videoproductions.com.au/dvdit/D...ct-menusize.png

if you leave menu aspect at default setting 24p, it will look terrible

Thanks for that. I did manage to create a valid menu which simmed out correctly. Imagine my surprise to find that my LH+G BD burner has failed, tried it in another drive but looks like the data interface is holding down the SATA port.

So, I thought that I would just burn to a DVD+R DL disk. First part went fine, audio encoding, menu task then after a few minutes, program stopped with a long message saying that the temporary files were too large for the temporary storage then some text about making sure that I had an NTFS file system etc.

I upped the paging file size on the biggest disk and closed the other disk paging files. The disk selected has 168Gb free and the project is, I think, 22Gb 2hr9m encoded as an elementary stream. However, I can't actually see the size of the project file in DVDitHD Pro but I can't see why the temproray file use should fail

James

can you check to see if all drives including C drive are NTFS formatted

if a drive is Fat32 formatted, it has a 4GB per file limit, in which case you get an error like yours

All drives are NTFS.....
James



Roxio support gave me a link to update the PX burner engine and to check for the firmaware version of my burner. These updates have made no difference. I even tried just to create a disk image but that failed both in BD and DVD mode.
James

maybe you are exceeding the allowed size, see if there is any free space and the total size like this
http://www.videoproductions.com.au/dvdit/project-size.avi

I don't have the status line which you show under the timeline. There is an item in Timeline>Timeline Options which is always greyed out although Help says that if the movie is selected in Project (Window?) then this option can be accessed. Looking at the Movie Properties, it's showing the .m2v file at 19.9Gb and the .mpa audio file at 356.1Mb so I don't think the project is too big.
Most curious
James

hmmm, maybe this has been added to 6.4 which is the version I use, I noticed you use 6.3

I have been helped by Support and now have 6.4 which has solved all my problems. Thanks for your interest
James