Authoring Works 4.

[EagleW]

I have a curious problem with my Authoring Works 4 (to latest version). It will burn a BD-RE no problem every time. But when I render a Blu-ray project in SONY Vegas Movie Studio Platinum 11 HD and save it, for authoring later in Works 4 to a BD-R I get the following. When I reach the authoring step where the software asks for me to insert the media I wish to write to, and I insert the BD-R it tries to format the disk to BD-RE and I can't stop it. Then it goes through the analysing stage and at the end a warning comes up that my disk is not writable. Works 4 seems to think the disk is a BD-RE no matter what. The funny thing is, if I put that in my home theatre Panasonic digital recorder it will happily burn a program to the disk and it idents it as a writable BD-R. The media I am trying to use is Verbatim BD-R 6X printable. My drive is the Pioneer BDR-207D. What am I missing???

[johns0]

Don't use tmpgenc authoring works to burn your bd-r,use imgburn instead,much more reliable.

[EagleW]

I took your advice to see how Image Burn would work and downloaded and installed it on my Win 7 64bit system. Problem first up has stopped me in my tracks. The program freezes when you try to exit it, and has a message in the bottom left corner of the ImgBurn screen 'Saving settings' but finally a box comes up Not responding. Any ideas?

[johns0]

Could be your burner not resonding with the media in the drive,sometime bad burned or poor media will cause this type of problem.

[EagleW]

This was just opening ImgBurn to see what was in it. It detected my both Blu-ray writer drives. Never got to putting a disk in the drive. Both drives are recent eg Pioneer BDR207 and LG BH10LS30 all to latest versions of software. Looked at ImgBurn forum, no help. I do agree with you that the new Verbatim 6x BD-R disks are proving a bit of an issue with regards to drive compatability. Thats what I understood when contacting TMPGEnc over the problem mentioned above. Next step go back to 2X disks I think, they used to be no problem!!!

[johns0]

Never had a problem with the new verbatim 6x,a newer firmware can fix that problem,is imgburn crashing all the time or just that first time?

[EagleW]

The 6X disks from Verbatim as I understand have this LTH technology hard coating. I have seen mention on some web info which sites this as a problem for some writers. My main thrust is to get someone to respond to my Authoring Works 4 inital query. I am not so concerned with free software that has problems, but I paid for Works 4 which has been very satisfactory till BD-R 6X disks came along. My Pioneer BDR207 specs refers to 6X LTH disks so I should have no probs their. My main query is why will Works 4 attempt to format a BD-R 6X to BD-RE when its asks you for the disk to be put in the drive that you want to write to. I have 5 coasters to prove it!!! I will followup the ImgBurn problem with their support site. Thanks for your responses, cheers.

[johns0]

My first burn with the verabatin 6x LTH failed so i downloaded the latest firmware for my LG BH10LS30 and after i updated it the next one burned with no issues with imgburn.

[EagleW]

Hey thats the same as one of my two drives. My one is at version 1.01 so there may be hope yet, cheers.