burning my first Blu-ray

[357]

I have several clips (all mpeg 2 1920x1080i-30) that I want to burn to Blu-ray (Verbatim 25GB, 4x). I want to fill the disc. Any advice to avoid mistakes? How much video can the timeline handle at one time? PE7. Thanks...

[George Tyndall]

I have several clips (all mpeg 2 1920x1080i-30) that I want to burn to Blu-ray (Verbatim 25GB, 4x). I want to fill the disc. Any advice to avoid mistakes? How much video can the timeline handle at one time? PE7. Thanks...

Well, you've got Adobe's best version to date of Premiere Elements, PE7, but the answer to your question depends more on your OS and hardware.

I do slide shows rather than videos, and I've had as many as 498 hi def slides on my timeline plus a 1-hour WAV audio track. The system in my signature handled that 1-hour slide show without a hiccup.

Suggestion: Before burning your first Blu-ray, save/share the timeline to a SD DVD folder and then burn a SD DVD from the folder. If the SD DVD is flawless, then so should be your Blu-ray.

[Chuck Engels]

As George says it does depend greatly on your system 357. I have had 1.5 hours of HDV and images on the timeline without any problems.

[John 'twosheds' McDonald]

Suggestion: Before burning your first Blu-ray, save/share the timeline to a SD DVD folder and then burn a SD DVD from the folder. If the SD DVD is flawless, then so should be your Blu-ray.

In any event, you'll find that using re-writable media (DVD-R or BD-RE) to produce a test disc that you can check before the final burn will save you many coasters. Not really too much of an issue for DVDs as they are now relatively cheap. But BD discs (at least here in the UK) are expensive, so I always test burn to a re-writable BD-RE first.

[357]

I have 81 minutes of hd video and photos. I have windows 7 and a Dell 9000 with the i7 920 processor. 8gb ram and 1.15 tb hard drive.

[Steve Grisetti]

It should be a pretty straightforward process, 357.

[Chuck Engels]

Have you thought about doing it in 2 parts?
81 minutes is a long video and might lower the quality some.
Two discs might be a good option

[357]

Chuck, the video clips total 22 GB and the disc is 25. Should'nt that be ok?

[357]

Well...just my luck....I have discovered a problem! All my clips for the up-coming movie project, when played with Windows media player are flawless! However, when these clips are imported to the timeline there are several, solid, bright red frames that seem to be tied to the "fade to black" transitions I have used. What have I done wrong?

[George Tyndall]

Well...just my luck....I have discovered a problem! All my clips for the up-coming movie project, when played with Windows media player are flawless! However, when these clips are imported to the timeline there are several, solid, bright red frames that seem to be tied to the "fade to black" transitions I have used. What have I done wrong?

Ah yes, I remember those red frames and how RJ Johnston came to the rescue. I'll look for the thread and post it when I have some spare time, unless RJ gets to it sooner.

[George Tyndall]

Ah yes, I remember those red frames and how RJ Johnston came to the rescue. I'll look for the thread and post it when I have some spare time, unless RJ gets to it sooner.

Does the following helP?

by RJ Johnston » Thu Mar 19, 2009 7:26 pm

You could try deleting the ImporterFastMPEG.prm file. That's the file that indexes MPEG files when you add them to a project for the first time. People who have JVC .MOD files have reported success in getting rid of distortions and other weird stuff by deleting that file. It's in this folder:

C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Premiere Elements 7.0\Plug-ins\en_US

If you rename the file instead of deleting it, you need to append an extension onto the file name like this:

ImporterFastMPEG.prm.rjj

Not sure about this, but you may need to delete any existing index files associated with the MPEG's you use in your project:

...\Media Cache Files\My ProjectHD3.MACC\*.mpgindex

[357]

That is good to know! I have imported the clips into Windows Movie Maker and they are fine. I am using that timeline to join all clips and I may do the final burn there too. It just never seems to end with Adobe!

[Chuck Engels]

Chuck, the video clips total 22 GB and the disc is 25. Should'nt that be ok?

The size of the actual video clips (data files) have nothing to do with the output to the DVD or Blu Ray disc 357. You also have to consider that you are including menus that also take up space. It also will depend on how much action there is in the video, more action, more space taken up as the bit rate has to be higher.

I'm just saying that anything over an hour (or even 40 minutes) is a lot of video to sit and watch.
Putting 80 minutes on 2 discs will keep the quality as high as possible and also let the viewer take a break

It's not a requirement, just my personal opinion that's all

[357]

Thanks guys! I did delete the file and that did away with the red frames! I pity the poor guy that does not use this forum! The average Adobe customer would never figure out a proplem like this!

[Chuck Engels]

I pity the poor guy that does not use this forum! The average Adobe customer would never figure out a proplem like this!

Ain't that the truth