I've been shooting and editing HDV for just over 2 years now.
The cameras I use are the Sony HVR-Z1J and the Sony FX1
Editing has been done in Avid/Pinnacle Liquid.
I have been producing short videos destined for DVD output as well as encoding my HDV work for display on the web.
In November 2007 I began to get into Blu-Ray production.
On February 14th 2008 I installed Avid Media Composer and began the migration from Liquid.
My first 2 goals were to learn the basics in MC as quickly as possible and to develop a workflow that would allow me to output authored Blu-Ray discs.

The following Tutorial is the result of my search for an MC to Blu-Ray workflow.

It is important that you remember I am new to MC and that this workflow is the one that I am happy with.
It is more than likely that you will disagree with some of the steps or even some of the tools I use.
However I hope that my documentation of the workflow will help you find your own - better - workflow.

I have previously worked with DVDLabPro for authoring DVDs, and found it to be an excellent programme.
However I moved to DVDitPro about 1 year ago as I had a feeling that Blu-Ray was going to be the future (for a while) and DVDLabPro did not do Blu-Ray authoring.
The PS3 was the best way to get into the playback of Blu-Ray.
I am not a snob and have no problem in using a "Games Console" to watch my work with.
After all I am not looking at the player.. I am looking at the result on the screen.

Also, being in Japan had a lot to do with my early choice of Blu-Ray.
The so called war between the formats which took place in North America was never a reality here.
I have also tried the trial version of Adobe Encore CS3 for authoring Blu-Ray discs, but found that it lacked the ability to output subtitles to Blu-Ray. (That was in December 2007 - It is possible that it can do that now. I don't know)
DVDitPro HD can have problems if you don't treat it correctly.
A big topic on the Roxio Forums is about transcoding files to be DVDitPro .
I have never had any success with this and I actually don't see what all the fuss is about.
Either you transcode the files first and then add them to DVDItPro or you use the method I use and let DVDitPro do the transcoding.
Somewhere in your workflow there must be transcoding before you can output to Blu-Ray.