Transfering 18 years of home video to BluRay for my kids

[vanatic99]

I'm new to Corel Video Studio Pro X3, but have been using Ulead Video Studio 10 and Ulead DVD Workshop 2 for many years.
I am currently in the process of transfering 18 years worth of home videos of my kids to BluRay disks as a gift to my kids. I have already transfered all of the Hi8 and DV to a 1.5 TB drive as AVI files. I have 25 individual files that average around 26GB and 2 hours each.
I don't intend to do any editing of the video, just transfer it as is to BluRay disks (1 file per 25GB disk) with menus and chapters. I have already authored several of the files and understand the process using DVD Factory Pro 2010, but have a few questions, which I will ask in the appropriate forums, before I start the burning process.
If anyone has any tips or suggestions I would appreciate hearing them.
Thank you.

[Black Lab]

Sounds like quite the undertaking!

[sjj1805]

If you are going to use WS2 for your authoring then you can create a cross referenced menu system.

Obviously a main menu.
This can have various sub menus
a. Individuals
b. Places
c. By Year

Now create a sub menu for each of the kids with links to any videos that that particular person is in.

Next create another sub menu with links to locations where videos were taken.

Now a sub menu where videos are chronological.

You will probably think of some more suitable menus!

[EdSE]

I have always had this question since HD editing came about. Is it possible to take recordings in regular DV tapes to HD output (blurays)? If so, I would appreciate anyone who knows how to do this to give me some pointers. I do know that one needs a bluray burner... Thanks in advance.

[Black Lab]

I suppose you could, but why would you want to? I'm sure you have heard the saying "you can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear". You will not get HD quality from an SD source.