Recording issue onto BD.using MEP 2013 plus.

starship.1 wrote on 6/19/2014, 10:01 AM

Ok, i have just about got my head around this software MEP 2013 plus, i have prepared some movies from my saved files from my panasonic camera. I advance to burn to make set up templates etc. Play back in preview plays through all the movie chapters I have added, then into the Burn to disc application, BD Burning window appears, setting it to record to my external BD recorder, setting the burning speed to 8x.. Disc format, H.264.

All is working very well, Burn process complete, place the BD into my player on my home cinema system,menu appears, press play,but only a short piece of my first chapter, around 4mins in total plays.

I must be doing something wrong but just cannot figue out what it is....

Any ideas please.

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terrypin wrote on 6/19/2014, 11:56 AM

Hi,

As a start in isolating the problem I'd suggest you first try playing the VOB folder that MEP will have written. It will be in the folder specified under Program Settings > Folder.

If that also fails like your DVD player, try exporting the project to an appropriate file such as an MP4 and see if that exhibits the same problem.

Failing that, double check that your project really is playing OK on the timeline and then closely examine the objects at around t=4 mins.

If no clues have emerged by this point, try splitting the project at the trouble spot and see if exports on either side are OK.

Terry, East Grinstead, UK

johnebaker wrote on 6/19/2014, 12:20 PM

Look in your program settings to find the location where MEP is creating the disc image.

Open this folder with Windows Explorer - in there you will find a folder beginning with BD H264 xxxxxxxxx where xxxxxxxxx is the name of the project.

Open BDMV, Stream folder - there you will find a set of mts files.

Try playing the 00000.mts file to check if this is OK, note if the video is long there may be more sequentially numbered files. The last file(s) in the sequence are the menu videos.

The discs you are using may not be compatable with your BD player or are of dubious quality.

I would recommend you get a couple BD-RE discs (I recommend Verbatim) and do your initial burns to these, you can erase them if the burn fails for some reason and reuse them.

Once you have a good burn to BD-RE that plays OK use this as a master disc and copy it to BD-R. You can then reuse the BD-RE on the next project.

HTH

John

starship.1 wrote on 6/20/2014, 8:23 AM

Thank you John & Terry, i have not tried your advise as yet, but hopefully i can get something positive from it. I will reply here when i have sorted the issue.

I am using Panasonic BD-R, great advise on using a rewritible makes more sense untill i can sort this issue.

kind regards.

Tony