DVD Architect 5.0 won't give me Blu-ray option

drw schrieb am 08.02.2014 um 20:32 Uhr

I rendered a blu-ray project to a .m2v and .w64 file pair successfully. Can bring them into DVDA and play them in the preview. However, my only option appears to be "make DVD", I don't see the "make blu-ray disc" option that is mentioned in the help menu.

I don't have a blu-ray burner on the PC running DVDA, so I suspect that might be the cause, but wanted to ask. I was hoping to be able to at least prepare the blu-ray project and then give it to someone else to burn the disk. Excuse my lack of knowledge on the subject, but when authoring a blu-ray can you create a menu screen, etc. similar to DVD, but with the higher resolution of blu-ray, and then save the whole thing to a folder like DVD, or is the process different?

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videoITguy schrieb am 08.02.2014 um 20:39 Uhr

Generally DVDAPro has a hair trigger that is supposed to pull when you attempt to create a Blu-ray withOUT a writer inside the PC - I understand some have tried a workaround - uncertain about it.
So without a burner installed you can not prepare the Blu-ray iso with DVDAPro.
Once you do have .iso (image) you can burn elsewhere.
Blu-ray menu and video is not only of higher quality but greater versatility in presentation form -
Just buy a burner for $65 US and be done with your program.

drw schrieb am 08.02.2014 um 21:21 Uhr

thanks for confirming my suspicions.

won't be buying a burner, as its not my project, just trying to do a little editing favor for a friend (not sure if he has blu-ray burner/player either, just wanted to give him the files in case he did). I use the WD media player for playing back HD videos, so I don't even have a blu-ray player either.

videoITguy schrieb am 08.02.2014 um 22:34 Uhr

WithOUT a Blu-ray investment, you are missing out on one of the BEST (quality and utility use of) optical disc formats ever invented for the consumer, sorry!

EricLNZ schrieb am 09.02.2014 um 00:51 Uhr

I'm surprised DVDAPro won't create a Blu-ray iso without a burner being present as DVDAS 5.0 does. If anything you'd expect the situation to be the other way around.

vkmast schrieb am 09.02.2014 um 01:53 Uhr

http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/authoring_and_burning_blu-ray_discs
"Choose Prepare if you want to prepare the disc image on the machine you're currently working on but need to take that image to a different machine to do the actual burning. For instance, you'd do this if the machine you're working on does not have a Blu-ray burner. If the machine you're working on does have a Blu-ray burner and you intend to do the entire job on that machine, click the Burn button."
Works here in DVD A Pro 5.2/6.0.
The article is about v 5.

musicvid10 schrieb am 09.02.2014 um 06:17 Uhr

You can install a virtual bluray mounter, such as DVDFab Virtual Drive.
Works great.

TOG62 schrieb am 09.02.2014 um 08:12 Uhr

Have you set your project properties to Blu-ray?

Arthur.S schrieb am 09.02.2014 um 12:29 Uhr

Your problem is almost definitely as Tog32's advice. If you haven't set your project as a Blu-ray project, you won't get the option of "Make Blu-ray". If you're seeing "Make DVD" your project is set as DVD. I can prepare a BD project as per normal on my laptop - which doesn't have a BD burner installed.

drw schrieb am 10.02.2014 um 01:40 Uhr

thanks, the properties setting was the issue, didn't realize there was a DVD/bluray option I had to pick there. Once I set that to bluray then I was able to make an iso.