I am a complete NEWBIE to blue ray burning. To make a very, very, very long story short, I am trying to figure if it is EVEN POSSIBLE to fit 4 and a half hours of 1920 x 1080 HD video into one BR 25G disc. I am living a nightmare right now. I got a ton of footages from my family's vacation recorded with a Canon HF S100. The original files from the camera were recorded in 1920 x 1080, 24 MBS, and in MTS format. My first problem was trying to find the right program to edit the HD footages. I finally settled on Corel Video Studio Pro. Though it is still not the best program to use, it will have to do. After a month of editing, I am ready to burn my first BR Disc. I even went out got a new computer, 28" monitor and LG burner. My goal is to put the edited movie onto one blue ray disc at the highest possible quality. I am having problems understanding the burn settings for my projects and the settings within the burn mode in Corel Video Studio. The program is very convoluted with so many confusing and overlapping format settings. My 4 1/2 hr project ended up with a whopping calculation of 72 gigs, which will not allow me to burn. I believe the file is a MT2S file. In retrospect, I was getting a smaller calculation when my projects were in segments ( assuming that once combined would be under 25 gigs ). I really don't understand this. Is there another way or am I doing something wrong? I really don't want to put the movie on two discs nor reduce any quality. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Alex
I heard yesterday that you can burn up to FIVE 3 Hour movies on ONE blu ray disk. It is big space I have seasons of tv shows on my HDD that are in HD and each season is about 8 gigs. I don't know if DVD Flick is compatable with Blu Ray yet, but it wouldn't hurt to try. I don't know what kind of editing you are looking for (brightness, contrast or size, pixels)
I have the Canon HF10 which records 1920x1080 at 17 Mbps. I can fit about 2 1/2 hours on a 25 Gig BD-R. At 24 Mbps I doubt if you could fit 4 1/2 hours of video on to a 25 Gig BD-R.
