Great. Just what I needed to know.
Did you have to use any special tricks or additional apps outside Vegas?

No tricks. Nothing besides a burner, media and Vegas.

j razz

Yes, I got the burner, but am having trouble with the install. My computer meets the minimum specs (it should, its only 6 months old),. However, after installing windows crashes upon loading. I get a blue screen. My BIOS recognizes the drive, but when windows loads, the system crashes. LG is sending a new drive. I have posted on several forums and some people think it is the nvidia SATA controller drivers my HP computer uses for the motherboard.

I'll wait and see if the new drive helps, or if I need to get another computer.

jrazz, are you using AVCHD or the mainconcept encoder? The AVCHD render doesn't look as good with my HDV footage, not as sharp. Have not tried the mainconcept encoder for bluray, but have used the mainconcept encoder for HD-DVD.

I have only used the mainconcept encoder.

j razz

Ok, finally got the GGW-H20L to work, but only after purchasing another computer. I think it was an issue with my SATA ports on the other computer.

Anyway, I have successfully authored a Bluray disk with menus that plays with menus in the ps3. I did the following:

In Vegas
1. Render video using main concept encoder 1440X1080, video set to cbr 25,000,000 bps. Under the system tab I selected save as elementary stream (.mv2 and .mpa). Probably could uncheck the include audio tab.
2. Render audio as dolby digital pro (.ac3) 256 kbs.
3. Then in tsmuxer 1.84(b) i import the .mv2 and .ac3 file and output as .mt2s
4. Then I import this file into Ulead VS 11.5 plus and select create disk and pick bluray. Add the video/audio remuxed file and choose custom setting.
5. I chose change mpeg settings and changed to 1440 X 1080, and audio as dolby digital 256 kbs. Made sure the Do not convert compliant MPEG file was checked. (Not sure if I need to change mpeg settings if this box is checked, but the default properties said the video was 1920X1080 so thought I should)
6. Then I used the default menu and burned to BD-RE.
7. For a 4 minute video clip, I had a BD-RE disk in a few minutes. The process was very quick and the resulting Bluray disk played in the ps3 with the latest firmware update.

This was probably more complicated than it needed to be, but it worked!

Kitzj0,

Congratulations!
Assume you got great quality.

I just ordered an LG burner and about to place the order for a new computer. Any special specs on the SATA link to look out for?

By the way, your last sentence read "I probably could have skipped....". Any further thoughts?

Hi Daveco2

The last sentence was a typo (problem with cutting and pasting).

Here is what I posted in another thread with the old computer specs.

http://club.cdfreaks.com/f142/problem-installing-ggw-h20l-247545/#post2084429

I think the quality I got was as good as when I was authoring HD-DVD on DVD-R.

So, it looks like the problem was the SATA adapter card. Plugging directly into my Intel motherboard socket should be ok?

Would I get better quality editing AVCHD and going to an AVCHD/DVD disk for playback on the PS3?