Can you make BluRay menus?

[Oscarface]

I currently have Roxio Media Creator 10. I'm looking at the upgrade to Roxio Creator 2010 or 2010 Pro.

 

What I can't find is confirmation that you can design BluRay menus. I see that you can burn to bluray, but with my current version it says that you can do that, but only without a menu - if you do it straight from Videowave.

 

I did find a few reviews on 2010 online that said you could use "premade" bluray menus. Does this mean that I can't design my own custom menu, like you can with DVD menus?

 

Also, has anyone had good results with the automatic brightening/color correction, that it says that 2010 has? And is 2010 less glitchy? The biggest problem I've had with Creator 10 is that no matter what brand I use, whether I burn in Hardware Software, or what computer I use, I get freeze ups - particularily with advancing to chapters near the end of the DVD's or when selecting later chapters from the menus I've created. It will freeze up and not play. Generally, have they corrected most of the glitches prevailant in previous versions?

 

Thank you,

 

Codey

[otown]

Nice example sknis

[sknis]

1) Yes, see image. It is a mp4 file used as background.

 

 

 

2) Yes, I found that the brightening works better. I filmed some HD video indoors with low light and I was able to brighten it significantly. I don't know about color because the color was good enough.

 

3) Switch to a better quality blank DVD. Use Verbatim or better yet Taiyo Yuden (new JVC) available on-line only. If you have a printer that will print on CD/DVD, get the water shield surface. They look great. You said that you tried several brands but didn't say which ones.

 

Are you making an ISO file and then copying that to a disc? If you are using good quality discs and you are not using the ISO file method, I think that your burner is having trouble keeping up as the computer encodes the videos.

 

In addition, try slowing down your burn speed, it sound like there is a problem burning to the outside of the disc. Have you updated the firmware on the burners?

 

How much in terms of time do you try to put on a DVD? How many videos/chapters on an example disc you make?

 

4) What glitches are you talking about? There were only a few that I ever found and there were work arounds.

 

You sound like you are using several different computers; which ones? Specs?

 

Look at the Creator 2010 Blue-ray/AVCHD part of the forum. There are work arounds for most if not all "glitches"

 

Get the Pro for the audio cleaning, the program to design your own audio and image editing tools. They are better than OEM and worth the extra $$.

[Oscarface]

1) Yes, see image. It is a mp4 file used as background.

 

 

 

2) Yes, I found that the brightening works better. I filmed some HD video indoors with low light and I was able to brighten it significantly. I don't know about color because the color was good enough.

 

3) Switch to a better quality blank DVD. Use Verbatim or better yet Taiyo Yuden (new JVC) available on-line only. If you have a printer that will print on CD/DVD, get the water shield surface. They look great. You said that you tried several brands but didn't say which ones.

 

Are you making an ISO file and then copying that to a disc? If you are using good quality discs and you are not using the ISO file method, I think that your burner is having trouble keeping up as the computer encodes the videos.

 

In addition, try slowing down your burn speed, it sound like there is a problem burning to the outside of the disc. Have you updated the firmware on the burners?

 

How much in terms of time do you try to put on a DVD? How many videos/chapters on an example disc you make?

 

4) What glitches are you talking about? There were only a few that I ever found and there were work arounds.

 

You sound like you are using several different computers; which ones? Specs?

 

Look at the Creator 2010 Blue-ray/AVCHD part of the forum. There are work arounds for most if not all "glitches"

 

Get the Pro for the audio cleaning, the program to design your own audio and image editing tools. They are better than OEM and worth the extra $$.

 

 

Thank you so much for taking the time to answer my questions and offer tips.

 

-I use Verbatim brand discs more than anything else.

-I usually create ISO files first and then use DVD copy to burn.

-I usually always burn at the slowest speed or half speed at the fastest.

-My DVD lengths are almost always just under 1 hour. If they are over I use DL. Chapters are usually at 6-8.

But no matter what the discs will still freeze up when fast forwarding or selecting later chapters.

 

I'll look into the firmware on the burners.

 

As for specs, I can't look up the specs on the computer I usually use at this moment, but I checked before to see if it was adequate and it is. From what I remember it's a dual core with about 8 GB of ram or so.

 

As for the glitches I was talking about, I've dealt with so many since I've been using Roxio EMC 10. When you use it as much as I do, I guess it's inevitable you're going to find every little thing. I've found so many "work arounds" as you suggested, I'd just hate for 2010 to have a bunch of new strange things that need new work-arounds.

 

As frustrating as it's been, I've grown accustomed to using Roxio. So I hope that it's getting better so I won't have to abandon the brand for something else.

 

Thanks again