How now to build menus and burn Blu-ray discs?

George-Smith wrote on 6/11/2021, 9:09 AM

With the absence of the outdated DVD Architect, not missed lately due to its inability to burn Blu-ray discs (at least my version build 100), the is now a hole in the video disc production scenario! While MAGIX makes available the Video Pro X product AND a decent menu building opportunity...it won't build an HEVC H.265 Ultra HD Blu-ray disc. VEGAS Pro 17 (and 18) can build H.265 video format files, but has no way to build a menu system around the videos...nor anyway to export/burn them to a Blu-ray disc. What is available to fill this void? I've used DVDFab "Creator" to collect files built from various video editing applications and burn them to a Blu-ray disc in an HEVC format...BUT their Blu-ray version does NOT provide a menu system! HELP! What's out there!???

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Dexcon wrote on 6/11/2021, 9:35 AM

What's out there!???

Very little if anything other than DVD Architect 5.2 and 6 which still do BD with menus without a problem.

Alternatives are as per Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_DVD_authoring_software

.. but you will need to research each option to see if any of them fits with your needs.

 

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Teagan wrote on 6/11/2021, 12:56 PM

DVDA7 still works great for 2k blu rays but as for 4k UHD blu rays, that is still "top secret" in the commercial world. I think the only software you can use to author basic HDR10 4k blu rays is like $10,000 USD. You can still buy a disc copy of DVDA7 (see here) but as for digital, you'll have to go to TMPGEnc Authoring Works 6 for something that is currently supported. It has a 1 month trial with no watermarks or limits on rendering. It has menu systems you can make but they aren't as customizable as DVDA's.

Wait a couple years and we'll be making dolby vision 4k blu rays with ease. It took a while when blu ray came out and now it's no problem. I think it will be the same thing with 4k blu ray.

They are still changing the medium as I heard a couple days ago they're adding weird water marks that will be a challenge to get rid of for the makeMKV guys.