Can you author a Blu ray disk after rendering in Vegas Movie Studio.

[EagleW]

I am a third time poster. I would very much like to author a Blu-ray disk with menu controls (like a DVD). However I only have SONY Vegas Movie Studio Platinum 9. I can author a Blu-ray disk with the software but it has no menu controls. I was wondering if there is a peice of software that can be used just for that purpose? (fairly cheaply!) I also have Works 4 but it wont recognise the rendered SONY file to import it. Any steer would be appreciated, cheers.

[vcd4ever]

I also have Works 4 but it wont recognise the rendered SONY file to import it.

What format is the SONY file rendered to, tmpgenc authoring works 4 only supports MPEG2.

Vcd4ever.

[johns0]

You can use multiavchd to author blu-ray with menus.

[EagleW]

Many tanks to 'vcd4ever' when I read your reply the mention that Works 4 only accepted MPEG2 jogged my memory.
I checked my 'render as' setting and changed it to 'Main Concept MPEG2' encoding and thats fixed my problem. Now Works 4 recognises the rendered file, and the fulley edited 'SONY movie studio platinum' movie can be authored with menus in Works 4. Thanks for taking the time to answer.

[johns0]

If your files are avchd to begin with then use multiavchd to author the files cause it wont re-encode them and you keep the original quality.Rendering the files to mpeg2 will lose quality.

[EagleW]

Thanks for your input, however my footage was HDV and as a result was an m2t file. Should have mentioned that earlier, sorry.