HD videos - burning blu ray questions!

[robint]

So......... I know that I need to upgrade my software when I move to HD video but I thought I also needed to upgrade my DVD burner to blu ray. Yes? No? I was just on Amazon looking at the Pinnacle v.12 software and saw this:
"Built-in HD Disc Burning
Burn DVD, HD DVD and AVCHD format discs on standard DVD media. Natively author Blu-ray format discs with full motion menus."
So what does that mean? It sounds like they say with this software I don't need a specific blu ray burner on my computer. Or am I nuts? :shocked2:

What are the rest of you HD vidiots doing? Are you burning DVDs and on what? Or are you just just burning SD?

robin

 

[marshallkarp]

My plan is to put a blu-ray player on my Christmas wish list and get blu-ray burning software. As I am quite comfortable editing in Sony Vegas, I am looking at getting Nero just to burn the blu-ray DVDs. It is my understanding that you can use your existing DVD burner to burn blu-ray, red laser versus blue laser.

Anyway, here is a helpful link

YouTube - How to put Blu-Ray HD on Regular DVDs - Short Film Tutorial

 

[drbill]

Very interesting information. I was totally in the dark on this and will have to look into it myself. I just finished doing a second edit on all my HDV footage from 2007 and 2008 as I'm considering a project that may involve my HDV footage instead of all my standard def footage.

 

[ScubaBob92651]

Haven't tried any of these approaches yet - but some relevant information here.

 

[kadleck]

... Burn DVD, HD DVD and AVCHD format discs on standard DVD media. Natively author Blu-ray format discs with full motion menus."...

Whilst I do not burn Blu-ray, I think I can answer this part of your question!

Firstly, that statement is not saying that you don't need the hardware. Of course you will need a burner (for Blu-ray). What it is saying (for the non-Blu-ray part) is that you can burn HD content on to a normal DVD (though you will not get much time on a DVD if you burn HD.

It then goes on to say you can "Natively author Blu-ray format discs with full motion menus". For that you will need a Blu-ray burner. The 'authoring' part is a software function, allowing you to build the complex menus that Blu-ray is capable of. But to actually save that material (with its menus) onto a pretty spinning thing, you will need to burn it onto Blu-ray media.

Hope that makes a modicum of sense!

 

[ronscuba]

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What are the rest of you HD vidiots doing? Are you burning DVDs and on what? Or are you just just burning SD?

robin

I show HD by recording back to my camcorder, then connecting to an HDTV with an HDMI cable. Pretty simple, but obviously only for local viewing in my house or friends/family's place.

I don't know enough people with a blueray player to burn blueray dvds. I believe the Sony Playstation 3 and the newer blueray players can read/play raw HDV video files burned onto a standard DVD. Meaning, no menus like a commercial DVD, but still full HD resolution.