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13th October 2016, 09:27 | #25001 | Link | |
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I think this drives the nail into the coffin:
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It would really be nice to be able to have a menu, even if there is only one item in an import selection (reason explained above). |
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13th October 2016, 12:40 | #25002 | Link |
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@MrVideo; RE: It would really be nice to be able to have a menu, even if there is only one item.
You could always use CloneBD to generate a simple one item menu. But if you wanted to make one with custom backgrounds with audio, chapter's with picture icons and audio, subtitle selection screens then you can still use multiAVCHD 4.1. YES it does have a learning curve but it is really an excellent BD authoring program even though unlike BD_Rebuilder, it's not being supported anymore. I still use it occasionally to make a series disk to evenly place the same amount of episodes on each disk. I hate it when one disk has 5 episodes and the last disk has only 2 with tons of extras, lol. I think you will have to run it on Win7 though. I just use it make a 50gb disk and then use BD_Rebuilder to size it, cause it takes forever to encode. |
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I haven't used multiAVCHD in ages. I didn't like how it went from choice to choice and didn't allow a simple selection list like BD-RB does. It just wasn't my cup of tea. OTOH, BD-RB is really great. Sure there are some features that would be nice to have, but pretty much every program has things that users would like to have. Jdobbs has even said that he is leaning toward to making it a full BD authoring program. He is well on his way.
Not sure why multiAVCHD needs to be used to create discs with evenly spaced episode count, since BD-RB lets you do that. It is what I am using to make discs. For example, for a season one set, I controlled which episodes were on a disc by having what I want on a disc in a directory of its own, one for each of the discs. With the ability to use the font I want, I can have the text on the menu use the font that the series uses (when I can get that font). In the case of the latest issue, I'm adding a trailer for the movie, which now makes the menu have two items. Still doesn't mean I wouldn't like the ability to create single item menus, it doesn't. |
13th October 2016, 23:49 | #25007 | Link |
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I can't remember why it doesn't create the menu on import. I'm sure there's a good reason -- I'll have to go back and check.
But. You can always import, and then do a quick-play backup of the import (instead of a Full Backup), and a menu will be created. |
14th October 2016, 06:46 | #25008 | Link |
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I've discovered a bug in the menu creation. View this image.
The area containing the error is circled. The settings are in the INI file posted above. And yes, it is a photo of the screen and not a screen grab as I can't do a screen grab from a Blu-ray player. UPDATE: It is related to the font that is being used. It is "aniron bold" and is available from here. The "ringbearer medium" font works just fine. Last edited by MrVideo; 14th October 2016 at 07:56. |
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When I imported a single file in Full Backup mode and then switched the mode to Quick-Play, BD-RB wouldn't let me edit the menu because I didn't have a source path. When I hit the backup button, it too complained about no source path. There is no source, since the file has already been imported. |
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I just thought of something, because of the thing I found regarding the menu text and something else I saw with a menu.
The menu text appears to be placed within a "box" that has its background color set to the menu backdrop color. That means the menu text can never be placed over an image, because the text isn't within a transparent container. In a previous posting, I asked if there was a way to use the menu background video from a BD release (still haven't heard back on that one). But, if the menu text can't be placed on the menu background without the solid box, it isn't worth having a background image that isn't solid. Is my understanding of this correct? |
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In your post the problem isn't the background color. It's the fact that one piece of text (in a box) is overlapping another. BD-RB pulls the font height/width and sets the spacing based on that... apparently with that font it is wrong. As for the background video, the only way to do it right now is to import from a BD -- and the background video from the BD will be used. Last edited by jdobbs; 14th October 2016 at 15:02. |
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1. Import the file. At completion the source path is pointing to the Pseudo Structure. 2. Set the backup type to Quick-Play 3. Click on "Edit Quick-Play Menu" from the MODE menu. I just did it several times with several different files. No problem. Last edited by jdobbs; 14th October 2016 at 14:47. |
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Description: 1) Make sure BD-RB is in Full Backup mode 2) Import a single file 3) Results after import is done 4) Select Quick-Play Backup mode 5) Result after selection is made. Notice source is now empty. 6) Select Edit Quick-Play Menu 7) Result after selection If those are not the correct steps, which seems to be what you did, please let me know what I need to do differently. UPDATE: I tried it again, with the same results. But I manually looked in the source directory and all that is in the PSEUDO directory is a PINFO.INF file. There are BDMV and CERTIFICATE directories and the BDMV path contains all of the goodies. Last edited by MrVideo; 14th October 2016 at 22:33. |
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What got me to believe that the text background wasn't transparent was when I was working on the first disc for Legend of the Seeker. I didn't have the text down far enough and the bottom of the background image logo got clipped by the text box. I also saw a box that the text was in because when I sent the background fill color, I didn't notice that it was at ~10-10-10 (decimal), so the darker level of the text box was visible on the screen. No idea what happened to cause that. Quote:
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I found that changing Mode sometimes clears the source field |
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14th October 2016, 23:33 | #25017 | Link | |
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That fixed that issue. But, I expected BD-RB to re-encode the selected file, and it did. As pointed out, I do not want any re-encoding to take place. The input files are to be used as is. So, this means I'm back to Full Backup mode and stopping after the input stage. That means I will have to have at least two files on the menu. In this case, the feature and a trailer. I am looking forward to the future where one item will be allowed to have a menu created. |
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