morphinapg
2nd October 2012, 04:59
I'm using a 2 page menu. When the user selects "Episode Selection" the menu loads page 2, which is a box that contains a list of all the episodes on the disc. These are what the menus are supposed to look like:
click the images for higher resolution
http://i.imgur.com/nxhJ4l.jpg (http://i.imgur.com/nxhJ4.jpg)
http://i.imgur.com/iLEOql.jpg (http://i.imgur.com/iLEOq.jpg)
Here's what they actually end up looking like (I couldn't take a screenshot of my Blu-ray player, so I had to fake the appearance using photoshop, but they look just like this on the player itself)
click the images for higher resolution
http://i.imgur.com/JadbHl.jpg (http://i.imgur.com/JadbH.jpg)
http://i.imgur.com/HGGErl.jpg (http://i.imgur.com/HGGEr.jpg)
On the first page of the menu, the text links are invisible, but their subpictures still show up. On the second page, almost everything is perfect, except the box around the episode list doesn't show up. Another problem I had was when I included background music for the menu, Encore would crash attempting to render the menu. I solved this removing the music, but I'd really like it to be there if possible, as the music supposedly can play uninterrupted even when the user opens the episode selection box with this menu format.
Does anybody have any idea what's going on? The links on both pages have exactly the same properties set, so I don't understand why it's doing this.
Here is a copy of the photoshop file that opens when I select "Edit in Photoshop" in Encore, if this helps solve the problem:
http://www.mediafire.com/?qolw6a9w3r896n3
For those of you wondering, I have a very good reason for making this Blu-ray. For the first 4 seasons of Doctor Who, there are no Blu-ray releases. This is because they were filmed in SD, so that makes sense. Unfortunately, they were filmed in PAL SD, not NTSC, so NTSC DVD releases have a lower resolution than the PAL releases. So I took the PAL versions of the episodes, upscaled them to 720p, and then also changed the framerate to 60p using this script:
changefps(75)
convertfps(60000.0/1001.0)
Which essentially treats each 60p frame like a shutter of a camera open for the full 1/60th of a second, filming a 25fps source. This plays 25fps content perfectly smooth, and still very clear, without any pulldown judder or unnecessarily extra frame blending. If successful, this should provide the best possible version of the show to watch on 60Hz HDTVs.
as a side note, does anybody know how to make x264-generated source files that show up as Blu-ray compliant in Encore? I used the Blu-ray presets in MeGUI, but it still didn't view them as compliant. I had to set Encore to re-encode unfortunately.
click the images for higher resolution
http://i.imgur.com/nxhJ4l.jpg (http://i.imgur.com/nxhJ4.jpg)
http://i.imgur.com/iLEOql.jpg (http://i.imgur.com/iLEOq.jpg)
Here's what they actually end up looking like (I couldn't take a screenshot of my Blu-ray player, so I had to fake the appearance using photoshop, but they look just like this on the player itself)
click the images for higher resolution
http://i.imgur.com/JadbHl.jpg (http://i.imgur.com/JadbH.jpg)
http://i.imgur.com/HGGErl.jpg (http://i.imgur.com/HGGEr.jpg)
On the first page of the menu, the text links are invisible, but their subpictures still show up. On the second page, almost everything is perfect, except the box around the episode list doesn't show up. Another problem I had was when I included background music for the menu, Encore would crash attempting to render the menu. I solved this removing the music, but I'd really like it to be there if possible, as the music supposedly can play uninterrupted even when the user opens the episode selection box with this menu format.
Does anybody have any idea what's going on? The links on both pages have exactly the same properties set, so I don't understand why it's doing this.
Here is a copy of the photoshop file that opens when I select "Edit in Photoshop" in Encore, if this helps solve the problem:
http://www.mediafire.com/?qolw6a9w3r896n3
For those of you wondering, I have a very good reason for making this Blu-ray. For the first 4 seasons of Doctor Who, there are no Blu-ray releases. This is because they were filmed in SD, so that makes sense. Unfortunately, they were filmed in PAL SD, not NTSC, so NTSC DVD releases have a lower resolution than the PAL releases. So I took the PAL versions of the episodes, upscaled them to 720p, and then also changed the framerate to 60p using this script:
changefps(75)
convertfps(60000.0/1001.0)
Which essentially treats each 60p frame like a shutter of a camera open for the full 1/60th of a second, filming a 25fps source. This plays 25fps content perfectly smooth, and still very clear, without any pulldown judder or unnecessarily extra frame blending. If successful, this should provide the best possible version of the show to watch on 60Hz HDTVs.
as a side note, does anybody know how to make x264-generated source files that show up as Blu-ray compliant in Encore? I used the Blu-ray presets in MeGUI, but it still didn't view them as compliant. I had to set Encore to re-encode unfortunately.