large Project Output to Blu-Ray

[Arndrell]

Good Morning All

Although i've had Corel Video Pro for a while i've only really just started to use it and I am teaching myself mainly through Youtube and hands on with it so bare with me if this is an obvious question to all of you.. I have done a search and apart from the "fit to disc" option on DVD I can't seem to find what i'm looking for!

I recently came back from holiday with around 3-4 hours or 1080p 50f 5.1 Camera footage i want to just drop onto some Blu-Rays, minimal editing for now. All I want to do for now is just watch through it all.
Currently the project sits at around 59+ GB! with a Blu-Ray capacity of around 23GB it obviously not going tofit onto a single disc but surely I can output this to multiple disc's some how?
I don't want to loose any quality at all and want to keep the 5.1 sound track so am i missing something really obvious or do i have to just make 3-4 separate projects and then output these to individual disc's?

Any help or thoughts appreciated greatly,
Kind Regards

James

[BrianCee]

Yes I'm afraid your only option is to split it up and make separate sections to burn to discs - but you do not have to make each one individually

complete your editing and produce your one single project called something like 'holiday'

now make a copy of your project by using "File >> Save as" and giving it a slightly different name - say 'holiday part one' - then delete everything in the timeline after around a third of the way in - you will need to decide exactly where - maybe add a little text note "continued on disc 2" - burn that to your DVD - save that project and close it.

Open your original project again - now do "File >> save as" again this time say 'holiday part two' - then delete everything you left in the first one - and everything from about 2/3rds on - the first deletes do not have to be in exactly the same place as a little overlapping in OK - burn that to your second disc - save and exit again

Open the original project again and repeat the process for the remaining section of your project - 'holiday part three'.

You should now have three discs and 4 project (.vsp) files - just in case you need to make any changes and burn any more.

[Ken Berry]

From the sounds of what you are after, another possibility is to simply burn your video to BD discs as data files, as opposed to creating an actual BD project or projects. And for this you would not need Video Studio at all -- simply the burning capacity of Windows itself. You could play this data/video from the disc with a software player like VLC Player, and I imagine that many stand-alone BD players will detect high def video on such a data disk and play it back on your HDTV. I know my Sony PlayStation 3 will do so if I put the data/video in a folder labelled 'VIDEO' (in upper case) on the disc. (The PS3 as you may know is an excellent Blu-Ray player as well as being a games console...)

This way you would not be making any changes at all to your original video, which can then be later transferred back to the computer for cutting, editing and conversion into an actual BD disc or disk, instead of, for the moment, being simply a way to review your footage. This might be particularly important, given that it appears your video is a fully progressive 50 fps. As you may be aware, the current international Blu-Ray standard does not accept 50P video unless it is 1280 x720P, whereas yours in 1920 x 1080. So using VS and making 3 BD projects will in effect 'down-convert' them to 50i or 50 interlaced frames per second instead of 50 full frames per second. This will affect their overall quality, even if only in a small way. Burning them as data will get around this limitation -- and give you time to decide whether, later, you will burn them to BD discs (and accept the down-conversion then) or some other format which preserves their fully progressive nature.