Seeking a Blu-ray application

Philip wrote on 3/9/2023, 1:33 PM

Vegas Pro 18; Dell XPS with Nvidia 1060 GPU.

I have now downloaded two programs to burn my rendered videos for storage. They were rendered as Sony AAC/MP4 HEVC. The first program would accept them, so I got a refund. The second appeared to be burning but when finished, nothing was on the disc. Tech help finally got back to me adn had me disable GPU encoding, which had my CPU in the upper 90s percent usage, so I quit that.

I thought MP4 and HEVC were pretty standard now, but I am a novice in this department. I would like suggestions for a reliable program that won't break my small bank. I am not a pro, just took advantage of a nearly free upgrade to Pro 18 from Studio Platinum Ia couple of years ago. I edit and render only a few times a year. I never had issues with Movie Studio Platinum, which I used for a number of years in various editions. Do I need to go back to it?

Thank you kindly.

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EricLNZ wrote on 3/9/2023, 2:59 PM

@Philip Please clarify what you are trying to burn. Is it a Blu-ray video disc with menus etc or just to put files on the disk for storage i.e. a data disc?

RedRob-CandlelightProdctns wrote on 3/9/2023, 3:05 PM

There are different topics you bring up here...

Q1 -- what is the best render format for your archives

Q2 -- what is the best medium to use to store your archives? Blu-ray disc? DVD? Thumb-drive? External HD? SDHC Memory card? Floppy disk?

Q3 -- what tool is needed to copy/burn the archive videos to that medium? I use DVD Architect regularly still to burn DVDs and blu-ray discs, but I want playable discs. If it were just for an archive I'd likely use the OS's native capability to just copy files to the disc, using it as a storage system and not playback disc.
 

Vegas 21.300

My PC (for finishing):

Cyperpower PC Intel Core i7-7700K CPU @ 4.2GHz, 64GB mem @ 2133MHz RAM, AMD Radeon RX470 (4GB dedicated) with driver recommended by Vegas Updater (reports as 30.0.15021.11005 dated 4/28/22), and Intel HD Graphics 630 driver version 31.0.101.2112 dated 7/21/22 w/16GB shared memory. Windows 10 Pro 64bit version 10.0.19045 Build 19045.

My main editing laptop:

Dell G15 Special Edition 5521, Bios 1.12 9/13/22, Windows 11 22H2 (10.0.22621)

12th Gen Intel Core i7-12700H (14 cores, 20 logical processors), 32 GB DDR5 4800MHz RAM, Intel Iris Xe Graphics, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti Laptop GPU w/8GB GDDR6 RAM, Realtek Audio

 

 

Philip wrote on 3/9/2023, 3:46 PM

Thank you both.

I wasn't aware of Window's capability to copy unrendered files to a disc, RedRob. Do you mean the raw recordings? I add ID titles up front in Vegas and occasionally need to make small edits, so that won't work.

Eric, as indicated above, I am not creating DVD's with the chapters and titles that can be made in DVD Architect; they're unnecessary. I am rendering these as playable, because I may need to refer to them on occasion, as I did recently, and because it seems an space-economical way to store them. A few years ago I was following earlier advice to render the video as Mainstream and the audio, separately, as AAC. These are interviews that I am recording for historic purposes and, for the most part, don't expect anyone to do anything with them for a couple of decades.

I have most of them on M-Discs, which seemed a good archival medium until the company disappeared. I am still interviewing and have a store of M-Discs, so intend to keep using them as I can. There seems no way to know what will be around tomorrow; at some point I can transfer the recordings to some other medium if necessary. I'm not an institution with a staff, obviously; just trying to do a good thing.

As Indicated, I thought MP4 (and I know there's a whole world of codecs and wrappers I don't understand) with HEVC compression was getting good reviews some years ago, so that's why I have chosen it. It seems perfectly adequate for these recodings made on a Vixia H-200S.

I hope that helps. I just need a burning program that will work.

Thanks again.

DMT3 wrote on 3/9/2023, 5:08 PM

IMGBURN is a free app that will create all kinds of disks and ISO files.

Philip wrote on 3/9/2023, 5:15 PM

Thank you. I'll look it up.

Philip wrote on 3/12/2023, 2:58 PM

Hi. I'm sorry to have to ask novice questions on a Pro site.

I downoladed IMGBurn and finally got a chance to use it. But I'm stumped again. IMG says my first file, which is about 8GB, is too large for the ISO 9660standard. (What the heck is that about?)

I know this isn't an IMG forum, but IMG seems to refer to many things a copying or creating an "image." I chose "Write Files or folders to disc" and added three files to the window and clicked on Build. That's when I got the message.

The IMGBurn site has 5 easy steps, but again, it says "Select image to burn." Is image interchangeable with file now? Anyway, "Switch to the Write mode." I did. "Select a file." I navigated and it shows none of my files being a supported format. As noted above, they are all MP4.

I went to Help, which produced a virtually endless webpage that simply identifies a bazillion variables. No basic instructions.

Maybe I'm just in the wrong place trying to use Vegas. I was easily burning Blu-rays and CDs a couple of years ago with Movie Studio. I now have a much faster computer; I figured this would be a breeze.

If anyone can offer help, I will be very grateful. I don;t understand why this is so difficult. Thank you.