Cannot choose Create Disc Image MF6+ HD Pack Blu-ray BDMV, as
the Create Disc Image option is not highlighted.
Just burnt a Blu-ray BD-RE disc with 25GB Canon HV20 HDV footage
with a Pioneer BDR-202 Blu-ray burner under 1 hour 45 minutes! as there is no Video transcoding(re-encoding) done with this software.
Fantastic software for producing Blu-ray, HD-DVD & HD-DVD on normal DVD's and AVCHD on normal DVD's with a BDMV stucture.
MF6+ with the HD Pack is fast, simple, cheap and a joy to use, and Light Years ahead of the other software packages on the market now.
Credit must be given to Corel/Ulead for producing this piece of software.
Cannot choose Create Disc Image MF6+ HD Pack Blu-ray BDMV
Hi,
I also soon hope to have a Blu-Ray Burner. Hereis something nice about the Blu-Ray Format, you can MIX both AVCHD & hd-mpeg2 on the same Blu-Ray Disk.
First Create the AVCHD/h264 Videos.
When you start MF6+, go into the AVCHD disk creation.
In this module use the "Disc Template Manager" (lower left Icon -> Disc Template Manager) to create your own custom avchd/h264 templates.
Typical setup I use in NTSC that match my HD cam (records in hd-mpeg2) is:
Codec AVCHD (ulead HDMV)
1440x1080i Upper Field First
Compression = 100%
Variable Bit Rate 15000 or higher (average will end up being approx 10+MBS)
Dolby 48khz 5.1 @ 448kbs
Save this template (Note: Make sure to double check the correct fielding, the program likes to revert back to framebased or Lower first if you click in other places, just make sure to double check the fielding is correct).
Then import your hd-mpeg2 video, either PS (program stream) or TS (transport stream if captured with HDVSplit).
Then click on the "Export Selected Clips" and select the custom template you previously created above, before clicking on "Save" you can also click on the "Options" to double check the encoder settings (or change them).. Save the file and remember it's an avchd video.
Now, when you do start a new BDMV project under the "GEAR" Icon check ON "Do Not convert compliant MPEG files" and also "Support X-Disc" (X-Disc may not be necessary though, doesn't hurt). The "Do Not convert compliant MPEG files should be checked ON by default.
Now insert the avchd/h264 file into the BDMV project, also put a hd-mpeg2 video file into the project, then burn these (do not edit them or that will trigger a re-encode switch, you can create chapters though).
The avchd/h264 video will not be re-encoded and will be burnt to the Blu-Ray Disk so this will give you a lot more video to put onto one Blu-Ray Disk.
I mentioned using VBR encoding because selecting 15MBS will yield an average of about 10MBS with excellent qualtiy, this will produce a smaller filesize versus CBR and I can't notice any difference in quality.
You can also create BDMV folders & burn the folders in Nero.
To burn a Blu-Ray compliant disk in Nero, start Nero and select "UDF Only", then in the UDF tab select "Manual" - > "Physical Partition" -> UDF 2.6 (2.5 may also work for the PS3 & other Sony Blu-Ray Players, I think UDF 2.6 is standard for Blu-Ray, UDF 2.5 does work in the Sony PlayStation PS3.
Then mirror the BDMV & Certificate Directories in the nero compilation window & burn the udf 2.6 physical partition blu-ray disk.
Straight AVCHD Disks with menus created in MF6+ with the HD-Burner Pack burnt to standard dvd's will also play in the PS3/Sony/Pioneer/Panasonic blu-Ray Players.
If you create them you will already have your avchd videos, either import the videos back into MF or copy them from the streams folder. These are already compliant videos, when creating a BDMV disk insert these videos into the timeline and in the burning module they will not be re-encoded, they will be passed through into the multi-plexing stage.
Lots of luck
etech
I also soon hope to have a Blu-Ray Burner. Hereis something nice about the Blu-Ray Format, you can MIX both AVCHD & hd-mpeg2 on the same Blu-Ray Disk.
First Create the AVCHD/h264 Videos.
When you start MF6+, go into the AVCHD disk creation.
In this module use the "Disc Template Manager" (lower left Icon -> Disc Template Manager) to create your own custom avchd/h264 templates.
Typical setup I use in NTSC that match my HD cam (records in hd-mpeg2) is:
Codec AVCHD (ulead HDMV)
1440x1080i Upper Field First
Compression = 100%
Variable Bit Rate 15000 or higher (average will end up being approx 10+MBS)
Dolby 48khz 5.1 @ 448kbs
Save this template (Note: Make sure to double check the correct fielding, the program likes to revert back to framebased or Lower first if you click in other places, just make sure to double check the fielding is correct).
Then import your hd-mpeg2 video, either PS (program stream) or TS (transport stream if captured with HDVSplit).
Then click on the "Export Selected Clips" and select the custom template you previously created above, before clicking on "Save" you can also click on the "Options" to double check the encoder settings (or change them).. Save the file and remember it's an avchd video.
Now, when you do start a new BDMV project under the "GEAR" Icon check ON "Do Not convert compliant MPEG files" and also "Support X-Disc" (X-Disc may not be necessary though, doesn't hurt). The "Do Not convert compliant MPEG files should be checked ON by default.
Now insert the avchd/h264 file into the BDMV project, also put a hd-mpeg2 video file into the project, then burn these (do not edit them or that will trigger a re-encode switch, you can create chapters though).
The avchd/h264 video will not be re-encoded and will be burnt to the Blu-Ray Disk so this will give you a lot more video to put onto one Blu-Ray Disk.
I mentioned using VBR encoding because selecting 15MBS will yield an average of about 10MBS with excellent qualtiy, this will produce a smaller filesize versus CBR and I can't notice any difference in quality.
You can also create BDMV folders & burn the folders in Nero.
To burn a Blu-Ray compliant disk in Nero, start Nero and select "UDF Only", then in the UDF tab select "Manual" - > "Physical Partition" -> UDF 2.6 (2.5 may also work for the PS3 & other Sony Blu-Ray Players, I think UDF 2.6 is standard for Blu-Ray, UDF 2.5 does work in the Sony PlayStation PS3.
Then mirror the BDMV & Certificate Directories in the nero compilation window & burn the udf 2.6 physical partition blu-ray disk.
Straight AVCHD Disks with menus created in MF6+ with the HD-Burner Pack burnt to standard dvd's will also play in the PS3/Sony/Pioneer/Panasonic blu-Ray Players.
If you create them you will already have your avchd videos, either import the videos back into MF or copy them from the streams folder. These are already compliant videos, when creating a BDMV disk insert these videos into the timeline and in the burning module they will not be re-encoded, they will be passed through into the multi-plexing stage.
Lots of luck
etech