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Kimberly wrote on 7/15/2011, 9:32 AM
Hello Marton:

I'm not sure if I understand your questions completely but I'll try to give you an answer.

Yes, you can burn a DVD-A project in a BD format to a Blu-ray disk or a DVD disk. Go to File/Properties. Choose Blu-ray Disk for the Format. This defaults to a Target Media Size of 25gb. From the drop-down menu you can choose other sizes for your target media, including 8.5 and 4.7 which are double and single DVDs respectively.

I don't have a BD burner yet, nor do I want to play with BD disks until the price comes down quite a bit.

I can burn BD format projects on DVDs and play them in my Blu-ray player. It's a newer Sony model BD player. Other users report that BD format disks on DVD do not play in their players.

The above method may produce an ISO file, but you could always delete the ISO when you have burned your disk if you want to save room on your hard drive.

Regards,

Kimberly
TOG62 wrote on 7/15/2011, 10:14 AM
If you mean can you burn a Blu-ray structure to a hard drive the answer's no.
musicvid10 wrote on 7/15/2011, 10:36 AM
You can always extract the ISO to a folder structure using any one of a number of free third party utilities.
Marton wrote on 7/15/2011, 10:56 AM
I thinked my question was easy.
I render a bluray project.
Now this takes too much time, because when i see that when
the bdmv/stream folder is created with m2ts files, then DVDA generates the ISO file. I don't want this step, i can burn the bluray folder structure with a burning program.

TOG62: the bluray structure are generated to the hard drive!
I see it with file manager. When its finished, i don't want to generate an ISO from this.

Musicvid: i don't want to extract the ISO to a folder. I use virtualclone drive for example. But it's not the question yet. I want to burn a disc, without iso creating...

The BD prices are really low now: i burn to $1 25GB discs..
Marton wrote on 7/15/2011, 10:57 AM
Come on guys: similar when creating DVD-s.
DVDA generates the VOB files, and i can burn this with nero, imgburn, etc. No need for extra step for iso creating..
TOG62 wrote on 7/15/2011, 11:03 PM
DVDA cannot burn the Blu-ray structure to a hard drive, only an ISO file. One way round this is to make the ISO and mount it on a virtual drive, but this will simply add to the time taken.

Creating an ISO is not an extra step; it's an alternative to creating a folder with the file structure.
musicvid10 wrote on 7/15/2011, 11:11 PM
" Come on guys: similar when creating DVD-s.

Any burning utility will burn from an ISO, which is just a container format.
You also make it sound as if this is somehow our doing.
This is a peer forum. We are users just like you.
From this and previous indicators, your diplomacy could stand a reality check.

;?)

Marton wrote on 7/15/2011, 11:29 PM
TOG62:

"DVDA cannot burn the Blu-ray structure to a hard drive, only an ISO file. "
Are you sure? While rendering i see in the temp folder that the BDMV, the PLAYLIST, the STREAM, etc. folders are created, and big m2ts files are generated. Aftet this, DVDA create the ISO from it.

"Creating an ISO is not an extra step"
Yes, its an 5-10 minutes extra step, depending on the video size and hdd speed.

Musicvid: sorry for the phrase, my english is not 100% fine, i just wanted to say: people, it's an easy question: can it be done in DVDA or not? And you give me answer for creating BD format disks on DVD or recommend some third party utilities. Really, i don't want to hurt anyone.
TOG62 wrote on 7/16/2011, 12:22 AM
OK, you have highlighted that DVDA builds a file structure first (as it must) and then creates the ISO file. It may be that you could abort the program before the temporary structure is deleted, but I don't think there's any 'official' way of doing that.
Marton wrote on 7/16/2011, 2:47 AM
That's exactly my question: what is the reason to create *always* an ISO file, if i can burn the bluray structure with the right burning app?
Would be good a checkbox if i want the iso creating procedure or not.. DVD creating work else: i get vob files, so dvd structure.
TOG62 wrote on 7/16/2011, 3:53 AM
I agree that this would be useful. You might like to log a Product Suggestion ([Link=http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/support/productsuggestion.asp]).
Marton wrote on 7/17/2011, 12:15 AM
thanks, good idea :-)