Author dual layer Blu-ray ?

[Marck]

Hi there!

 

I'm quite new to blu-ray authoring and to PC plateform... I'm a FCP editor for tv shows up in canada (Montreal).

 

We do a lot of HD editing and our producer would love to have the shows on blu-ray disc to watch it on his hi-def tv at home. I've managed to find this (dvdit pro HD --> installed on the MacPro on a windows XP partition...) great software to burn blu-ray and did a lot of searching to find a workflow that would suit our need (compressor encoding, dvdit authoring, toast 8 image burning...).

 

But as of now I was only able to use some single layer (25gb) disc. I'd love to be able to create dual layer (50gb) disc because some of the show we do are like 1h30 to 2h and having more space could let us keep a good compression setting and have a better image quality...

 

Is this possible in DVD it ro hd? If it's not an implemented feature of the current software, could there be a workaround to let us do that?

 

Thanks for the help!

 

Marck

[TomInIowa]

I see... So DVDit wont give an error message if I go more then 25GB and try to write an iso image?

 

 

 

After a lot of messing around, I built "write volume" that was 35GB in size. Everything works just like I want. Motion menus, background sound on the menu, ... 6 different videos, ....

 

 

 

Now, how to get it on a 50gb blu-ray disc?

 

 

I tried to build a iso file (as some indicated might work), but DVDit Pro gave me a error message ("layer size exceeded) and stopped.

 

 

Is there any software that will write the "volume" to blu-ray?

[tnw2933]

I see... So DVDit wont give an error message if I go more then 25GB and try to write an iso image?

 

As for burning, I use Toast 8 on the Mac side...

 

Mark,

 

I was never successful in burning to a 50 GB dual layer Blu-ray disk from within DVDit Pro HD. However, if you use DVDit Pro HD to burn an image file to your HD and then use Nero Ultimate 7 to burn your disk, the disk will play fine provided you do not go above about an 18,000 bit rate. My Sony BDP-S1 would play disks burned at a bit rate of 18K fine, but anything above that caused periodic freezing of the video.

 

Tom

[SS Scott]

there has been some success reported in outputting a >25 GB ISO image and then burning that to a BD-50 disc. The user who did this didn't report an issue with the lack of a layer break...I don't know what they burned it to BD-50 with.

[Marck]

there has been some success reported in outputting a >25 GB ISO image and then burning that to a BD-50 disc. The user who did this didn't report an issue with the lack of a layer break...I don't know what they burned it to BD-50 with.

 

I see... So DVDit wont give an error message if I go more then 25GB and try to write an iso image?

 

As for burning, I use Toast 8 on the Mac side...

[SS Scott]

DVDit will burn the volume to disc. just go to "burn disc" choose "Blu-ray", choose "from volume" and point to your volume.