Software to create own BDMV?

DVDit Pro HD - there is three vendors listed in PG, click this PriceGrabber link.

Apologies, I should have caught it was a UK post.

If you bought a BD burner like Sony BWU-100A or the panasonic, it should come with Cyberlink's PowerProducer 3 for BD. This doesn't work so well for me, but there is a $39 upgrade to PowerProducer 4 (just registering after you install the sw will get you an emailed invite to upgrade).

PowerProducer V4 creates what a BDAV disk and you can add simple menus (nothing fancy). If you have MPEG2 files lying around (eg : HDV) you can add MPEG2 files and create up to 25GB (actually 22.5GB if G=1024x1024 x1024) of video in there.

On the samsung with latest firmware, the disk will play but chapter additions will not work. Each mpeg2 file you add into a folder can be played as individual files ( but there is no chapter marks when playing files like this - meaning no nextchapter). The samsung seems to play practically any BDAV containing esoteric quirks such as 25P, 24P, 60I, 1440x1080, 1280x1080.

On PS3, it doesn't work. But most MPEG2 files can be written directly onto disks and played. PS3 refuses to play some types of MPEG2 and most types of AVC files. They seem to look for very narrow types of files and chokes if it sees a header flag it didn't like.

On Panasonic, it seems to work - ie : recognized the disk and navigation (but it has a problem with certain formats of files --- 25fps HD doesn't work). I only got the Panasonic this week, and have not played enough with it. It did not work with this short 25fps test file I had lying around. Put this down as a maybe.

One of my projects in the new year is to try to move my X-Files SD-DVD boxsets into BD-RE and see if I can fit one season per disk.

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Roxio DVDit ProHD I did not like - it tries to decode and reencode any mpeg2 file I throw at it. Roxio's Easy Media Creator works up to 4GB and then chokes with an AS_Error: 7 for me,

I could not get Ulead's MF5 BD support to work for me either.

Cyberlink's PowerProducer4 seems to be the only one that was able to create a full 25GB disk of HD video and not mangle the original files - but you need the samsung to play this as PS3 FW 1.32 doesn't recognize the disk

I am just trying to take a HDV MPEG file that I read in using Adobe Premiere Pro (from my HDR-HC1) and write that to BluRay using Cyberlink's PowerProducer4. It does not work. Gives me a "This file is not recognized" error. I have been able to successfully use the PowerProducer4 to ingest MPEG data from the Sony camcorder while burning the data to BluRay. So, looks like a software glitch in the Cyberlink product.

Has anybody else tried using HDV files in this manner with PowerProducer4?

thanks,

Gizmo

If you have the BWU-100 drive make sure you have the latest patch for PowerProducer, this may fix your problem. Also, I'm not sure if PowerProducer can handle HDV files, you might have to encode them to MPG before importing to PowerProducer.

^ Sorry. The BDAV works with that other app I was trying, but you're right, it has no menuing capability -- BDMV would be much better.

I'm going to try DVDIt Pro HD next. I bought a copy but the last time I did it, it went and reencoded my HD mpeg2 files and chugged along for 3 days before dying --- that's what prompted me to upgrade my ancient amd64 PC.

So far nothing is working for me on the PS3 and \\BDMV, although stand-alone players may have success with \\BDMV and BD-R/RE. DVDit creates the disk fine the PS3 see's the BD-RE but when you select it "invalid disk".