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Blu-ray Encoding Tutorial official discussion
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28. March 2012 @ 00:48 |
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This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 9. August 2012 @ 09:51
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Ramster
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3. August 2012 @ 19:59 |
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Awesome tutorial Rich...had no idea about blueray editing but thanks to you have a much better understanding...appreciate your work...Cheers
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5. August 2012 @ 17:32 |
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Originally posted by Ramster:
Awesome tutorial Rich...had no idea about blueray editing but thanks to you have a much better understanding...appreciate your work...Cheers
You're welcome! But just wait, what you've seen so far was just laying the groundwork for a much more ambitious project.
Valery Koval of DVDLogic Software generously provided a license for his company's EasyBD Blu-ray authoring software and two different menu creation programs (IGEditor and Quick BD Menu). Tonight I will have three more Blu-ray encoding guides added. The first deals with converting text subtitles to Blu-ray compatible subpictures and the last two cover the creation of still backgrounds and buttons for menus.
Immediately following that I will be uploading the initial parts of the tutorials I'm working on for each of the DVDLogic programs. I expect to have all that finished some time tonight.
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5. August 2012 @ 18:04 |
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It's encouraging to see Staff still active and contributing new content to this side of the site regularly.
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Ramster
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5. August 2012 @ 19:52 |
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Originally posted by vurbal:
Originally posted by Ramster:
Awesome tutorial Rich...had no idea about blueray editing but thanks to you have a much better understanding...appreciate your work...Cheers
You're welcome! But just wait, what you've seen so far was just laying the groundwork for a much more ambitious project.
Valery Koval of DVDLogic Software generously provided a license for his company's EasyBD Blu-ray authoring software and two different menu creation programs (IGEditor and Quick BD Menu). Tonight I will have three more Blu-ray encoding guides added. The first deals with converting text subtitles to Blu-ray compatible subpictures and the last two cover the creation of still backgrounds and buttons for menus.
Immediately following that I will be uploading the initial parts of the tutorials I'm working on for each of the DVDLogic programs. I expect to have all that finished some time tonight.
Look forward to your next installment ...again thanks and keep up the great work...
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5. August 2012 @ 20:36 |
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Originally posted by Ripper:
It's encouraging to see Staff still active and contributing new content to this side of the site regularly.
I'm glad to see there are still some (semi) old-timers hanging around.
This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 9. August 2012 @ 13:07
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9. August 2012 @ 13:07 |
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The tutorial has been updated with three new lessons.
Lesson 8 explains how to convert subtitles from text (SRT, SSA, or ASS) format to Blu-ray compliant image-based subpictures (BD SUP or BDN XML).
Lesson 9 goes into detail about creating and encoding single frame videos, something primarily used for creating menu backgrounds. The following operations are covered:
-- Using MeGUI's AVS Script Creator to select a single frame of video. This expands on the steps in Lesson 1 and Lesson 2.
-- Creating a video encoding profile in MeGUI which is optimized for a single frame source. These instructions are based on the x264 settings detailed in Lesson 4.
-- Producing another specialized AviSynth script (once again from the AVS Script Creator) to extract your single frame script as a still image, such as a PNG, BMP, or JPEG file. Such a file may be helpful, or perhaps even necessary in some cases, for designing and/or authoring Blu-ray menus.
-- Writing a simple AviSynth script for loading a still image as a video source. The resulting file can be encoded as a x264 video file using MeGUI. This allows you to use a menu background created with an image editing program like GIMP, Photoshop, or even MS Paint.
Lesson 10 is an overview of Blu-ray menu button images and how they fit into the menu design process. The following topics are covered.
-- The role of images in making buttons visible on menus and communicating information to the viewer.
-- Using the free image editor GIMP to create a full set of (3) images for a single button.
-- Using GIMP to test menu layout incorporating an extracted video frame (see Lesson 9) with your newly created menu buttons and additional elements as appropriate.
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