USE A DIFFERENT PROGRAM!!!!
I was baffled why in the world Sony would come out with such a great editing video, why I would spend hours on a project, only to be shot dead with disappointment when inevitably the project would never render to blu ray. Heck, the program would crash just scanning for drives. I took my new quad core 2.33 with 8gb of ram cpu back and got a new 2.67 ghz gateway 6800 fx cpu with quad core i7-920 processor with ati hd 4850 graphics cared with 1 gb of video mem and 3 gb of ram with windows vista 64 and an added lg blu ray burner. The result? I could render an actual project to bluray... using Corel Video Studio Pro X2. Yes, it seems to have all the same features of Vegas including 5.1 sound, titles, transition fx and a starting menu. On top of it, it seems more intuitive and easier to learn than Vegas. I made a blu ray disc in 1080i output complete with background music added, titles, transitions and a start menu which included the beach in the background and the start to Pink Floyd's Learning to Fly recycling for the first 10 seconds of the song like a regular dvd menu. The picture is perfect, the sound is great and it took about an hour or two to render and burn on a Panasonic 2x blu ray disc. My biggest complaint was the playback within the Corel program of the project. However, I downloaded a patch and it appears to be fixed. You can download the demo for 30 day trial to see if it will work for you. I must warn that the patch to fix the playback bug will only work with the purchased version as it won't install with the trial. I can vouch it does work with the purchased version. What's more is the program is 40 bucks cheaper than Vegas! I'm baffled how Sony comes out with AVCHD cameras (mine is sdr-hr 12) and comes out with software to edit, but is riddled with bugs so badly you can't even make a workable blu ray disc. Heck, even trying to render a movie in 1080i and then burning with another program doesn't work, because Sony will only render the picture WITHOUT the audio. Now does that make any sense to anyone!? Anyway it IS possible with the some major cpu power and the right program to actually render a 1080i movie! Good luck to everyone!
I was baffled why in the world Sony would come out with such a great editing video, why I would spend hours on a project, only to be shot dead with disappointment when inevitably the project would never render to blu ray. Heck, the program would crash just scanning for drives. I took my new quad core 2.33 with 8gb of ram cpu back and got a new 2.67 ghz gateway 6800 fx cpu with quad core i7-920 processor with ati hd 4850 graphics cared with 1 gb of video mem and 3 gb of ram with windows vista 64 and an added lg blu ray burner. The result? I could render an actual project to bluray... using Corel Video Studio Pro X2. Yes, it seems to have all the same features of Vegas including 5.1 sound, titles, transition fx and a starting menu. On top of it, it seems more intuitive and easier to learn than Vegas. I made a blu ray disc in 1080i output complete with background music added, titles, transitions and a start menu which included the beach in the background and the start to Pink Floyd's Learning to Fly recycling for the first 10 seconds of the song like a regular dvd menu. The picture is perfect, the sound is great and it took about an hour or two to render and burn on a Panasonic 2x blu ray disc. My biggest complaint was the playback within the Corel program of the project. However, I downloaded a patch and it appears to be fixed. You can download the demo for 30 day trial to see if it will work for you. I must warn that the patch to fix the playback bug will only work with the purchased version as it won't install with the trial. I can vouch it does work with the purchased version. What's more is the program is 40 bucks cheaper than Vegas! I'm baffled how Sony comes out with AVCHD cameras (mine is sdr-hr 12) and comes out with software to edit, but is riddled with bugs so badly you can't even make a workable blu ray disc. Heck, even trying to render a movie in 1080i and then burning with another program doesn't work, because Sony will only render the picture WITHOUT the audio. Now does that make any sense to anyone!? Anyway it IS possible with the some major cpu power and the right program to actually render a 1080i movie! Good luck to everyone!