Bluray testing

[Mikele]

Hello.

At last, I have purchased a BluRay burner (LG H20L). Four years after I have used for first time an HDV cam (SONY FX1, september 2004) I'm ready to start testing Bluray authoring.

I have some troubles:

1.- disk space: I have purchased a 1TB samung drive because every bluray test takes 25 Gigas plus conversions, etc (30-40 Gigas at last... OR MORE).
2.- I'm thinking to change my Intel Core2duo 4400 @3000 to an Quad Core 6400 and overclock it to 3000. Times to render are sloooooow. Very, very slow.
3.- Memory: I only have 3 Gigas, but XP can't take more. Next step is Vista x64 but I don't like it. And there is nothing real on Linux to do anything for video.


I have some questions about file conversions, but my first problem is anybody knows a way to author a fast blueray. If I capture from a HDV cam (1440x1080 MPG2 video at 3500CBR and 384CBR stereo audio; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDV) , THERE IS A WAY TO RECORD IT DIRECTLY (only transcoding audito to PCM or AC3, but without touching video track)?

As I have tested, it doesn't matter what profile you select (on Adobe Encore CS3 and VideoStudio 11 plus), it transcode video again (audio always is necesary).

I have to do some test with Cyberlink Producer, the soft that comes wiht the drive, but I think is very simple to do something like that.

Well, let's continue doing tests.
Thanks.

[Marshmallowman]

Windows xp pro 64bit works with large memory (using 8G myself)
A decent video editing program for linux using h264 content is cinerella.

[Mikele]

I have reinstaled XP x32 again. There was a lot of rare errors with Encore CS3 (no space (???)) and now I have a 175 GB partition for OS and the rest of 1T for doing tests.

I have done a bluray disc with Ulead Video Studio 11+ but quality was bad.

Let's start all again and see what happen now .

I don't have idea what's the fast way to do a bluray (encoding video MPEG2, MPG4 or VC-1), but this is the game .

More info in the next post (three or four years... if I don't change my CPU).

Let's go...

[Mikele]

At last... ONE BLURAY DISC finished.
My first one

Well, this are the numbers:

2 HDV tapes with more or less 110 minutes of HDV 1440x1080 at CBR 25K and 320CBR MP3 Audio converted with ENCORE (I have to REINSTALL EVERYTHING, S.O., programs, etc.; lot of hangs) at more or less the same as HDV (1440x1080 CBR 25k) and audio Dolby ST 192K takes... 12 Hours of recoding and more than 1 hour to record on a BD-RW at 2x speed.

Quality: well, but Encore RECODED ALL. Long time and lost a little quality.

Computer: Core2duo 4400 @3000 with 3 Gigas of RAM, XP. CPUs at 100% all the time.

I have no energy to try MPG-4. This will take 2 or three times.

This is the moment for things like this:

http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/38117/140/

Let's continue searching.

Ah, one important thing: if you don't install msxml6.msi from Microsoft, Encore don't work well, lot of rare issues.

[Marshmallowman]

So how are you liking the LG drive so far?

Did you get the retail pack with software for playback and burning?

I hope its a reliable burner , cause those blank blu-ray disks are $%#$ expenisve

I will probably grab a second generation LG drive a soon as it arrives locally