Seeking help with authoring a Blu-ray with menu and chapters

[Schmidty3634]

Please excuse the cross-post (also posted in the authoring forum), as I wasn't sure the ideal location for my question. I am a new guy to video, needing some help. I recently took video of a dance performance, and purchased PowerDirector 14 for editing purposes, creating a 17gig, 1940x1080 m2ts file. The end result turned out exactly how I had hoped, but I am struggling with preparing Blu-ray disks. What I would like to do is create a disk, with a simple menu (play, chapter selection). However, when I go through PowerDirector's create disk process, I am able to create the menu and chapters easy enough, but when I actually go to burn the disk it seems to take an extremely long time to prepare and burn. I burned a sample disk, to check quality, using Burn Aware, which did a fantastic job creating the disk, with terrific quality, very quickly, but lacks the ability to create menus and chapters. Am I doing something wrong with PowerDirector? Does it usually take a long time to author a disk? Is there another, preferrably free (as I have already paid for PowerDirector) program that runs more efficiently? I need to create about 40 disks, and if PowerDirector runs this slow on each one, it will never get done, and I will be inclined to just burn basic disks without menus and chapters.

[Kerry56]

Your m2ts file may not be entirely compliant to Blu-ray specifications. If this is the case, then PowerDirector may be re-encoding the video to fit those specs.

BurnAware probably just burned the m2ts file as data. This will play in a computer, but might not play in a stand-alone Blu-ray player. Or if it does in yours, it might not play in all Blu-ray players.

[Schmidty3634]

Your m2ts file may not be entirely compliant to Blu-ray specifications. If this is the case, then PowerDirector may be re-encoding the video to fit those specs.

BurnAware probably just burned the m2ts file as data. This will play in a computer, but might not play in a stand-alone Blu-ray player. Or if it does in yours, it might not play in all Blu-ray players.

If that's the case, will power director re-encode each disk, or after the first one will I be able to just keep inserting/pumping out more copies? Dont mind waiting once, if I can crank through the rest.

[Kerry56]

You should be able to set the program to output to the hard drive. You could then burn as many copies of that movie as you like using a burning program like BurnAware, or the favorite burning program around here, ImgBurn.

[redwudz]

Schmidty3634, please do not double post. I've closed the other duplicate topic. If you want to move a topic to another forum, PM a Mod.

Moderator redwudz