Edius and Sony's DVD Architect Pro 5

[iibw]

Anyone editing HDV in Edius and using Architect Pro 5 to burn blu-ray dvds? What's the workflow? Quality? Speed? Learning curve?

[cuervo]

edit/cut in edius, render to mpeg2, burn dvd in DVDA5...what's the mystery?

[iibw]

Can you do motion menus with Architect Pro comparable to DVD Studio Pro? Or do they look cheap and cheesy?

[shueardm]

Wow Warren

It only came available yesterday :)

[iibw]

Wow Warren

It only came available yesterday :)

I know.... that's why I'm anxious to know if anyone has even seen it or tried it somewhere... even a prototype.

[Ron Evans]

Yes I have it just loaded. I don't do motion menus so can't help there but there are lots of instructions on how to create motion menus so I suppose it does do them. The only difference from 4.5 is Blu-ray BD-MV other than that I can't see any difference. I also got the latest update to TMPGenc that encodes to BLu-ray spec but DVDA 5 does not like the output and neither does Encore!! I do not have Procoder 3 so my choice was to output HQ and let TMPGenc encode. No such luck. Both Encore and DVDA 5 say they will take about 8.5 hours to encode my 2 hour 10 min Canopus HQ 1440x1080i video. Will set it going over night.

Ron Evans

[Jerry]

Yes I have it just loaded. I don't do motion menus so can't help there but there are lots of instructions on how to create motion menus so I suppose it does do them. The only difference from 4.5 is Blu-ray BD-MV other than that I can't see any difference. I also got the latest update to TMPGenc that encodes to BLu-ray spec but DVDA 5 does not like the output and neither does Encore!! I do not have Procoder 3 so my choice was to output HQ and let TMPGenc encode. No such luck. Both Encore and DVDA 5 say they will take about 8.5 hours to encode my 2 hour 10 min Canopus HQ 1440x1080i video. Will set it going over night.

Ron Evans

Ron,
You might want to PM Anton about the TMPG settings. From his posts, I get the impression he is very familiar with that product.
A setting must be off to not allow encore to accept it. I believe there are several here on the forum that use Encore CS3 and TMPG.
I have no idea about DVDA 5.

[Ron Evans]

I normally use TMPGenc for SD encoding and DVDLab, Encore and DVD architect are happy . It is just the latest version encoding for Blu-Ray that has the problem. I haven't had the chance to try too many settings yet but will try other settings this weekend with shorter clips than 2 hour and 10 mins!!!

Ron

[Jerry]

I normally use TMPGenc for SD encoding and DVDLab, Encore and DVD architect are happy . It is just the latest version encoding for Blu-Ray that has the problem. I haven't had the chance to try too many settings yet but will try other settings this weekend with shorter clips than 2 hour and 10 mins!!!

Ron

Ron,
Still PM anton about the HD settings for TMPG. I'm sure he will be able to help.

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Animated Menus

iiBW, sorry but you can't do motion menues with buttons flying in with sony but you can have a looping menu background