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

drw wrote on 2/8/2014, 1:32 PM

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 wrote on 2/8/2014, 1:39 PM

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 wrote on 2/8/2014, 2:21 PM

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 wrote on 2/8/2014, 3:34 PM

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 wrote on 2/8/2014, 5:51 PM

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 wrote on 2/8/2014, 6:53 PM

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 wrote on 2/8/2014, 11:17 PM

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

TOG62 wrote on 2/9/2014, 1:12 AM

Have you set your project properties to Blu-ray?

Arthur.S wrote on 2/9/2014, 5:29 AM

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 wrote on 2/9/2014, 6:40 PM

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.