Issue Creating Disc Image/Burning to Blu-Ray Disc

[reversebottle]

Hello,

I've used Corel Video Studio X9 to create a video before, and had no problems burning it to a Blu-Ray. Recently I've had to create another 20-minute video on my laptop, and I've exported it as an MPEG-4 file. I transferred that file to my desktop and opened the file in Video Studio to burn it to a disc. Unfortunately, even after trying 4 different times to get it to work, the discs only include the menu, but don't contain the video when I click play. After checking the disc image, the file size is only roughly 600MB, which is just the menu (the video itself is about 2.5GB). I'm really at a loss and I'm not sure what to do to fix the problem
Any help or recommendations would be much appreciated! Thank you!

[Ken Berry]

MPEG-4 -- if it uses the *.mp4 extension -- is not of itself Blu-Ray compatible. So you shouldn't 'export' a project in that format and expect it to be burnt directly to a Blu-Ray. Instead you should choose AVCHD as the output/export format. Given that your project is quite short you can accept the default properties under AVCHD. This will produce a new file with an *.m2t extension, which IS Blu-Ray compatible. (AVCHD is of course also mpeg-4 produced using the H.264 codec, but it is the extension which is the important factor.) So give that a try.