Good bd-r burning software

[mol3000]

i installed he software that came with my disk which is power2go but it only burns data to bd-r and when i go under the burn movie tab it only has something there to burn dvds

What is the best software for burning movies to my blue ray disk????

[Midzuki]

If I am not wrong, ImgBurn (and even cdrecord) should be able to do that.


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[lordsmurf]

"With Vegas Pro 8 software you can burn a Blu-ray Disc directly from the timeline. Blu-ray Disc burning allows you to create a disc similar to a "single movie" DVD — the movie has no titles, menus, or buttons."

That's what most people need. Most DVD homemade menus were such awful looking useless crap that a menu-less disc would have been better.

[vhelp]

I wrote a mini-guide somewhere around here, but it does entail a two-part process, requiring several tools. For instance, the following example:

1 -- tsmuxer: (create the bluray structures) and,
2 -- ImgBurn: (author that structure to BD-RE/-R disc)

And, there are many pick-to-taste methods floating around. Buf, after fumbling around with the Nero 8 version (that was included in my Buffalo BRHC-6316U2 bluray writer) and its basic menu navigation, I gave up on it in favor of the above, more simplified and faster alternative. And the only reason I'm keeping the Nero is for its bluray player, until I find a bluray player alternative that plays my commercial BR discs, which only Nero seems play..so all 700 megs of hdd space will go waisted on my root winxp drive..oh well.

But I think LS is right..about the menu-less aspect. And didn't we used to do this back in the old vcd days anyways. I think that's what I used to do, and remember I managed to figure out the auto-load thing so that when you popped in a CD-R, the video would play automatically. Still, I wonder how hard it would be to plug something together to make a bar-bones menu, you know.., a couple of 1.pic; 2.pic; 3.pic; and there you go menu. I don't know.

But with bluray, things are different, and I'm not sure where the setup would be for an auto-loading feature. If anyone has already figure it out, it would be wonderful if you would share the method/steps to accomplish this so that we have the option for menu-less (auto-load) as an alternative. I'll leave it up to Midzuki to find out how

-vhelp 5062

[lordsmurf]

I don't have a BD burner yet, but I do have this: http://tmpgenc.pegasys-inc.com/en/product/taw4.html

I recently used it for some DVDs, and like it. It was mostly the same as TDA3, though I've not had adequate time to review it completely yet.

[racer-x]

TMPGEnc Works only supports Mpeg-2 streams and no support for AVC. TsMuxeR is free and will support all legal streams, but no menus. MultiAVCHD will let you create menus and supports up to 40 tittles or more and is also free. DVDA 5 will create a menu for BD, but that requires Vegas Pro 8.

ImgBurn can burn your disks just fine.

[PuzZLeR]

That's what most people need. Most DVD homemade menus were such awful looking useless crap that a menu-less disc would have been better.

This is a very interesting statement.

The problem is that DvD, and now BD, never gave you access to video in "file format" - it's all wrapped in a structure of folders, VOB/M2TS files, info and backup files, even audio, etc, etc. If you have multiple titles, without patience or knowledge of the structure, you definitely need some soft of "map", as is the menu, to navigate through to your title of choice to reach it.

It's not as simple as CD where audio is quite linear. Video + audio needs this more.

Otherwise I too think menus are a complete waste of time in the practical sense - in general and especially with the bad homemade ones. I appreciate the marketing concept behind the commercial ones as a marketer myself, but logistically speaking, they are quite useless and better served as "files" here too which is what the video enthusiast side of me always would have preferred in video disc formats with the simple option to just pick one.

Having said that, every DvD that I've personally authored myself has the "token menu", but multiple titles are clearly within their own VOB, or set of VOBs (if over 1GB) - the closest way to make DvD like a "file disc" within its structure (this is especially nice with music video discs I've made). I plan to do the same with BD when the software comes around.