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Hi,
I ahve daone a search but with no success.
I want to create a disc image at the end of my editing, but this option is greyed out.
The only thing I can do is to burn a real disc which is what I do not want to do.
The same happens no matter if I chose AVCHD blue ray or whatever options.
I am working with 1920*1080 files under vista home premium.I have also tryed with small files, and with the sample file that comes with the program but no change.
I have unmounted the Daemon drives as suggested in another post, but no way to get that option working.
What is really strange is that the option "create image files" contains all the information needed to create the file, this includes path and file.iso name that is the same that I find in Label. I have 49 Gb free in the hard disc.
I clueless, can someone help please?
ciao from Italy
enzo

Hi Enzo,

sorry to hear you're having trouble.

I believe that VS does not allow you to create an ISO file for AVCHD projects. That may be because a project intended for a Blu ray disc might be far larger than the limit for an ISO file, which is nominally 4Gb, though it's generally extended by some software tricks.

If you are trying to create a hybrid disc, for example an AVCHD project that you might burn to a normal DVD disc, you may be able to make the ISO file by using another program - such as Magic Iso, which I have some experience of using.

You would first need to output the VS project to folders, and then use Magic Iso to create the ISO file from those folders. You'd need to make sure that the folders didn't exceed the 4.35Gb limit for a single layer DVD disc.

You could then burn the ISO file to a DVD disc or mount it in a virtual drive to play it with a software DVD player - I use CloneCD for that purpose to create a virtual drive on my pc.

Thanks for your answer.
I use image burn for the purpose you mentioned, but the problem is that neither the option to create folders is available. Even that one is greyed out.
What is really creazy is that I have been able to create the folders ofr a Blue Ray and after that, everithing became blocked.

I am stuck!!!

Ciao from Italy

Yikes!

I get the same thing in VS11.5 - both the folder and ISO options are greyed out.

The only thing you might then consider is to actually burn to a DVD - use an RW disc if you don't want to use up a DVD-R or DVD+R - and then make the ISO from that disc - but it seems like a tortuous route to an ISO file!