Take this as a late night rant of mine, call it my nervous breakdown. See it as me stomping on the ground ala Steve Martin. Rants are so rare coming from me (actually this is my very first) and I'm very sorry but I've been put down by the enormous waste of time of these past weeks, hours and hours spent pointlessly on glitchy authoring programs. F***k them!
As the title suggests, my open question is (and it's not a sarcastic question but a honest one): can anybody here ACTUALLY produce a proper Blu-Ray release? With a menu... no, forget even the damn menues... with frigging CHAPTERS? Becuse I sure couldn't, and I had no idea it was gonna be this difficult when I started my project. Here's me thinking the hardest part was to MANUALLY FIX OVER 150 FRAMES to obtain a better result than the commercially available "fixed release". But nooo...
Sure most of us enjoy our releases on digital files to store on hard disk, sure, I have three myself! But it looks like there is no way to make an actual blu-ray release and add to one's own collection, or am I overlooking something essential here?
Chapter markers have been my biggest burden in the last week. They basically have to be encoded within the video from the editing/exporting stage (in my case Premiere), after that comes the export to an uncompressed intermediate file that I then convert into a BR-compatible h264 file... but it's not like the h264 encoder cares to keep track of chapter markers, right? So I find myself with a 100 minute film and no chapters... and the best part is, they can't be added later! No, because no authoring program I tried so far can, becuse they are not encoded into the h264 file to begin with!
And the programs that COULD add chapter also insist on re-encoding the whole bloody film with their own generic presets, what's the point of passing through the x264 encoder to get the best quality if then I need to encode it again? I might as well use Adobe Premiere's terrible h264-BR output directly and settle for authoring it with a castrated bitrate on Encore, or Vegas, where a glitch prevents from loading chapters or save them and I haven't figured out which subtitle format CAN be used since none seem compatible.
I better chuck it here. If anyone has ever successfully created a blu ray with chapters from scratch and without having to re-encode the h264 file, do let me know.
As far as I know it's impossible, we simply can't add a single blu ray to our collections.
Good night, sorry for the breakdown.
As the title suggests, my open question is (and it's not a sarcastic question but a honest one): can anybody here ACTUALLY produce a proper Blu-Ray release? With a menu... no, forget even the damn menues... with frigging CHAPTERS? Becuse I sure couldn't, and I had no idea it was gonna be this difficult when I started my project. Here's me thinking the hardest part was to MANUALLY FIX OVER 150 FRAMES to obtain a better result than the commercially available "fixed release". But nooo...
Sure most of us enjoy our releases on digital files to store on hard disk, sure, I have three myself! But it looks like there is no way to make an actual blu-ray release and add to one's own collection, or am I overlooking something essential here?
Chapter markers have been my biggest burden in the last week. They basically have to be encoded within the video from the editing/exporting stage (in my case Premiere), after that comes the export to an uncompressed intermediate file that I then convert into a BR-compatible h264 file... but it's not like the h264 encoder cares to keep track of chapter markers, right? So I find myself with a 100 minute film and no chapters... and the best part is, they can't be added later! No, because no authoring program I tried so far can, becuse they are not encoded into the h264 file to begin with!
And the programs that COULD add chapter also insist on re-encoding the whole bloody film with their own generic presets, what's the point of passing through the x264 encoder to get the best quality if then I need to encode it again? I might as well use Adobe Premiere's terrible h264-BR output directly and settle for authoring it with a castrated bitrate on Encore, or Vegas, where a glitch prevents from loading chapters or save them and I haven't figured out which subtitle format CAN be used since none seem compatible.
I better chuck it here. If anyone has ever successfully created a blu ray with chapters from scratch and without having to re-encode the h264 file, do let me know.
As far as I know it's impossible, we simply can't add a single blu ray to our collections.
Good night, sorry for the breakdown.