[bearstudy]

I am a field biologist attempting to create a playable Blu-ray disc from a short video we took in the field. Needless to say I am in over my head! I have been shooting in 1080i and creating simple videos in FC Pro 5.1.4 for display in the North American Bear Center (www.bear.org) for over a year. Some web versions of the videos are now online. I have been exporting the video from FCP as 'Quicktime Movie' in 1080i and burning to DVD with iDVD using 'OneStep DVD from Movie'. I don't really understand it all but it has been working for what we need up till now. We recently purchased a Blu-ray burner and I have been attempting to create a HD version of one short (-4 mins) movie using Toast 9 for display at the Bear Center. The resulting movie is of good quality but 'hangs' while playing. It is set to loop and as time goes on it hangs in more places and for longer periods.

I initially encoded it as:

Video Format = MPEG-4 AVC
Average Bit Rate = 8.0 Mbps
Maximum Bit Rate = 16.0 Mbps
Motion Estimation = Best
Reencoding = Automatic
Field Dominance = Automatic
Aspect Ratio = 16:9

I also tried:

Video Format = MPEG-2
Average Bit Rate = 13.0 Mbps
Maximum Bit Rate = 26.0 Mbps
Motion Estimation = Best
Reencoding = Automatic
Field Dominance = Automatic
Aspect Ratio = 16:9

Both burns hung on playback. What am I doing wrong? What is causing the movie to hang? Is there a setting I could change that would help?

Thank you for any help you can give!

Sue

[gaper1]

What kind of BD disc you used to burn? Also, what player did you use to play the burned BD disc?

[bearstudy]

What kind of BD disc you used to burn? Also, what player did you use to play the burned BD disc?

I am using Memorex BD-RE discs. The player is a Samsumg 1500 -- I updated the firmware yesterday but that did not improve the playback.

Thank you so much for responding. Any assistance is greatly appreciated!

Sue