How To Produce Blu Ray Discs On A Standard DVD +R Drive
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J. Robert Burgoyne
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last modified
Aug 11, 2010 12:30 AM
Shorter length DIY videos can be successfully burned to DVD +R media, at Blu Ray levels of resolution (1920x1080), using a standard DVD +R drive. This article explains how I was able to do it.
I use the Adobe Creative Suite 4 Production Premium Edition software products to produce videos. My video camera is a Canon Vixia HFS100 and I incorporate various digital media from other vendors into my videos. This is how I was able to burn a Blu Ray Disc on my DVD +R drive.
- In Premiere Pro, make your workspace 1920x1080 and create your video.
- Export Your Project as a .f4v file, 1920x1080. I used a target VBR of 35Mbps. FYI, that is a lot of data. The length of my video was 3:05.
- The Adobe Media Encoder will then produce your .f4v file.
- In Adobe Encore, create a new project using the .f4v file you just created.
- In Encore, render to a Blu Ray .iso file. This process crashed my Adobe Encore repeatedly, so I finally rebooted and without any other programs running, Encore was able to complete the job. The resultant .iso file was 591MB. That means the effective data rate is > 3MB/s. That is a lot of data - and that's why Blu Ray is worthy.
- Using CDBurnerXP, a free program that can burn optical media from .iso files, I burned the .iso file to a DVD +R disc.
- The resultant disc plays correctly in my LG BD550 Blu Ray player. For some reason there is a green screen pause at the start of my video that lasts about 2 seconds. More experimentation is needed to see what's causing the problem. Otherwise the video quality is outstanding - very impressive.

