Burning to Bluray Directly through Vegas 12

[Mike Kujbida]

Debbie, this is a long shot but have you tried updating the firmware on the drive?

[Debbie King]

Hi Mark and Mike:

I am using BD-R, not the RE. Mine is a recordable; not a rewritable. Should there be a difference when it comes to burning? I can’t find any RE’s here in North Carolina; Best Buy, Staples, Radio Shack. Nowhere! I may need to order it, but I need it asap.

Mike, my computer is only 3 years old, and it has Blu ray burning capability. This is why I am confused as to why DVD Architect is not picking up that a Blu Ray disc has been inserted. It asks me to insert a writable disc.

Many thanks,

Debbie

[Debbie King]

Thanks Bob:

I wonder if this is what Windows is doing. I am perplexed.

Many thanks,

Debbie

[Mike Kujbida]

[Debbie King] “Mike, my computer is only 3 years old, and it has Blu ray burning capability. This is why I am confused as to why DVD Architect is not picking up that a Blu Ray disc has been inserted. It asks me to insert a writable disc.”

Debbie, my home Blu-ray player is the same age and I’ve had to update the firmware 3 or 4 times in that time span. It’s worth a try as there may have been updates that you’re not aware of.
Good luck with the battle 🙂

[Steve Rhoden]

Perplexing indeed, use Nero then in the meantime.

Steve Rhoden (Cow Leader)
Film Maker & VFX Artist.
Owner of Filmex Creative Media.
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[Joseph Tessier]

In DVDA options/preferences/Burning tab make sure to uncheck use legacy drivers. That’s the only way I can burn from DVDA.

J. Paul

System Specs: I7 3.4 Ghz Quad Core 16GB Ram Win 7 Home Prem x64 VegasPro 13 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550

[Mark Thompson]

Hi,
I would call a 3 year old computer “new” so no problem there! By the way I burned a project on BD-R and Vegas (Pro13) managed that just fine (as I expected it would but just to be sure).

On device properties Windows 8.1 (and Windows 7) shows my good drive as BD-RE – that supports BD-R as well as BD-RE disks.

I just had a thought, you said you had it do something for an hour before failing. Are you trying to burn your completed film? perhaps it is too big? Having you tried just burning a small project? That will be a waste of a BD-R.

mark

[Debbie King]

Hi Everyone:

Thank you so much for your responses.

Mark, I will check my device properties to see what my computer supports. Yes, it’s a completed film. I do have something small; my trailer that I can try to burn. It may be worth the loss of one disc to see if this is a technical issue or the disc. My film size reads 20.0G, so this is very large. The BD-R disc holds up to 25G.

Thanks for the suggestion.

Best,

Debbie

[Steve Rhoden]

Good pointer for DVDA users Joseph….

Steve Rhoden (Cow Leader)
Film Maker & VFX Artist.
Owner of Filmex Creative Media.
Samples of my Work and Company can be seen here:
https://www.facebook.com/FilmexCreativeMedia

[Debbie King]

Hi Mark:

Thank you so much. I have a question. What do you do when the sound levels are too low? My experience is that some of the sound is low, while in other parts of the film is too loud. When I play everything in Sony, all levels are just where I set them. I don’t know how to gauge this because I pink noised my monitor and am basing my sound levels on what I hear in Sony. It’s a large file which takes up to 6 hours to render when I use the Blu ray settings, which can be quite discouraging.

Any advise?

Many thanks,

Debbie