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What is Blu-ray? And why?
Blu-ray is the next generation video disc format which keep the ultimate high definition entertainment experience.
It brings you high-definition movies with amazingly clear picture and rich surround sound. A blank Blu-ray Disc can store up to 50 GB of content, which is five times more than DVD stored. It means any one can make your own library of High-def home videos and movies and draw out one of them for watching on HDTV anytime anywhere. Also, the dropping price of large-screen HDTVs and Blu-ray players is also one of the factors that we move toward to Blu-ray burning.
To make such a Blu-ray Disc, you must have Blu-ray burning software such as Sothink HD Movie Maker. This software allows you to accomplish video to Blu-ray conversion and burning with one stop.
What you need?
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A piece of blank Blu-ray Disc: either BD-25 or BD-50 is OK, referring to the capability of 25 GB or 50 GB storage.
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Blu ray burning software: here we use Sothink HD Movie Maker for illustration.
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A Blu-ray player or Sony PS3: used to play the output Blu-ray Disc.
Before Start Blu-ray Burning
Please make sure you have installed Sothink HD Movie Maker on your PC. If not, please go to its website to download the latest version.
Launch the software and add video files
After you have launched the Blu-ray burning software ---- Sothink HD Movie Maker on your PC, click “Add Files” button to add source videos, such as movies you downloaded, or home videos recorded by camcorder.
Do not worry about the formats of source files. This Blu-ray burning software supports a big range of source video formats you have seen on Internet, such as AVI, MPEG, MKV, etc, and as well as the HD camera video formats like M2TS, MTS, etc.
You can use SHIFT + Left Mouse Click to select multiple video files and add them into the Blu-ray burning software at one time.
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Check Video Information
All of videos added here could be places as either big thumbnails with names or small thumbnails with detailed file information.
Tips: Mouse over the thumbnail image, you will see more details about audio/video stream info such as Codec, Sample rate, Bit rate, Channels, Frame rate and dimensions.
Preview Video
In this Blu-ray burning software, you can preview each video in the lower right corner of the interface, to check if it is the right content to burn Blu-ray.
Trim Video
If the source file is too long and you just want to burn a part content of it, you can go to “Edit” – “Trim ...” to open up Trim window. Then you can decide which part will be burnt to Blu-ray by dragging the left/right slider to set start/end time.
Set target disc before Blu ray burning
Then go to Setting panel on the top right side of the interface. Here you will see both normal settings and advanced settings.
Go to “settings” tab for normal configuration on target disc. Choose BD-25 or BD-50 in “Target disc size”; give any texts in “Disc label” to identify it in future; choose “Video dimension” from 1280 x 720, 1440 x 1080 or 1920 x 1080; set “Video frame rate” from either PAL or NTSC standard. All of these are necessary and simple settings for any users, even the beginners.
For those who are familiar with Audio/Stream, parameters and Blu-ray, you can go to “Advanced” tab for more detailed settings on audio/video Bit rate, Video Frame rate and Zoom mode, audio Sample rate and Channels, to get particular output quality at demands. Otherwise, you can skip the “Advanced” settings.
Insert BD Disc into Disc Driver
Make sure you have already inserted a piece of blank Blu-ray Disc into the Disc Driver of PC.
If not, you can still start Blu-ray burning with Sothink HD Movie Maker, and the output files will be automatically stored into a temporary folder with the Blu-ray disc structure for later burning.
In that case, you can burn all the files in that folder to BD disc using your favorite burning software. Please remember to select UDF 2.5 or UDF 2.6 file system before Blu ray burning begins.
Start Blu ray burning
Please make sure you have ticked all the video files you would like to burn.
If all above is done, you can click the “Burn” button on toolbar to start Blu-ray burning right now. The Blu-ray burning work will start one by one according to the file list order.
How long this Blu-ray burning process will take depends on the length of your souce video file and as well as the file’ size.
Watch Blu-ray Burning Disc
If everything goes well, you will be prompted with a message telling you so after Blu ray burning finished. Now you can insert the output Disc into your Blu-ray player (BR player) or Sony PS3 and watch it on your large-screen HDTV immediately.
Have fun!
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