Rendering to burn a Blu Ray

tslp wrote on 8/1/2009, 3:45 PM

I had captured from a SD Sony Camera about 2 hours (1hr 58 mins). I use Vegas Studio to edit ...(include titles etc). Now I plan to burn this video onto a Blu Ray disc...can I do this ? or should I just goto to the std DVDs?

I think we can do this from the timeline...but not sure...

It would be of great help if you show me the steps at a high level.
Thanks

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Eugenia wrote on 8/1/2009, 10:53 PM

Yes, Platinum 9 can burn an AVCHD disk from the timeline. It's one of the menu options. You put a DVD disk in the drive, and it will burn the HD footage into an AVCHD disk, to playback on a Blu-Ray player.

However, if your footage was SD, there's no reason to burn AVCHD disks. You just burn standard DVDs.

tslp wrote on 8/3/2009, 8:31 AM

Thanks ...what I am trying to avoid is to have multiple DVDs (SD) for the footage that I have about 2hrs + (2 hrs15 mins)....so if the quality of the video is SD is finr with me ....can I burn SD content on a BD-R disc? (so all the content comes in a single disc).

What I am trying now is rendering the video as a mpeg to burn on a BD-R disc....

Please let me know if this is possible ...before I make another slightly expensive coaster!

Eugenia wrote on 8/3/2009, 10:37 AM

I don't think that Movie Studio can burn in a BD-R disc, so I'd say "no" to this.

tslp wrote on 8/3/2009, 12:14 PM

So the SD content can never be burnt on a BD-R disc?
Even if I enccode/render the content to be put in a BD-R disc?

Thanks

Eugenia wrote on 8/3/2009, 2:05 PM

Yes, you can upsample SD content to HD, and you can place SD content to a Blu-Ray, it's all backwards compatible I believe. However, Movie Studio won't burn BD-Rs, only Vegas Pro will via its version of DVD Architect.

ForumAdmin wrote on 8/6/2009, 9:00 PM

Yes, Vegas Movie Studio Platinum 9.0 will burn BD-Rs. This feature is available only in the Platinum Edition. You can only put a single project on a Blu-ray disc, and it is burned directly to the disc (does not invoke DVD Architect to allow you to author a disc with menus and chapters, etc.). You may find it more cost effective to create DVDs unless your projects are quite lengthy.

Use Make Movie or Tools -> Burn Disc -> Blu-ray Disc to get to the burning dialog. Read the online help about creating a Blu-ray disc for more information.

Eugenia wrote on 8/6/2009, 9:31 PM

Yes, you are right. I already forgot my father in law doing just that, and getting crash each time with the Sony AVC encoder (he had to move to MainConcept). :)

Graham_H wrote on 9/5/2009, 2:47 AM

Hello there, this is my first forum entry.
I burned a couple of projects from the timeline to a standard DVD in hi def very succesfully. However I tried to do thesame thing with a longer project - almost 1 hour to a dual layer DVD - my drive supports it and the entire project was about 6 gigs or so. After all the extremely long rendering time it appeared to have been completed ok but I found that my Sony BD350 blu ray player would not play it...any advice please would be most welcome.