Self Publishing Blu Ray Title

[7@mp3dotcom]

Hello.
I'm in process of self publishing an original ambient/space genre blu ray title. Anyone have any experience in this?
Especially the marketing aspect.

The title is based on the giant Hubble Space Telescope image of the Carina Nebula, and other public domain and original art.
I authored the disk in DoStudio, and encoded the video with x264 on my PC. All my legal and copyright ducks are in a row.
Design and packaging are almost finished.
The plan is to do on demand disks at first.
Now comes the last mile...

Here's a simulation of the menu nav:
http://vimeo.com/26610995

Any info and advise would be appreciated.

[7@mp3dotcom]

I don't want to monopolize this topic, but I can't resist squeezing in here:)
Just a little background...
I've always liked Hubble Space Telescope images and video. I finally got a Blu Ray player and bought the Hubble Imax 3D release and Star Gaze.
They were good, but not great IMHO, so I hatched my plan.

Via this site and a few others I got up to speed on x264 encoding and the various options for authoring.
To make a long story short, in 3 months I had 4 hours of reference quality x264 video, then after another month of studying the manual, I downloaded the Netblender DoStudio evaluation and was able to complete the authoring part within the time limit. The brief Netblender splash screen I view as a feature, all the copies will keep it.
So nothing but time after the day job, motivation, a PC, and cool public domain content has produced a Blu Ray title that stands on it's own against some well done competition.

[smok3]

I would target some sort of firms that work a lot with discovery/new tech, seems like a good background for a fair. Menu totally rocks btw. Did you use any motion blur at this pans at all?

[7@mp3dotcom]

thx!
Since most of the pans are so ponderously slow, no blur was needed. I did a lot of cosmetic work on the 16 bit source images in PS, adding slight blur there, .4 to 1 pixel.
Then into AE, base comp at 60 FPS, dropped into a 30 FPS comp, out to 10 bit uncompressed, then x264 Blu Ray compliant at only 12K/sec.
Visually it compares well with commercial releases, but I fit 4.2 hours of video on a single layer BD.
I like the potential of the ambient genre.