Burn to Bluray - Option Grayed Out

[Ahender]

I have been having great success creating projects then burning to blu-ray from the timeline using Edius 6.06. Just two weeks ago I burned a slideshow of images and music. Prior to that burned about 10 disks with archived avi clips.

My latest project is a slideshow. Regardless of what I do I cannot get the option to burn to blu-ray.

Here's my work flow.

File -> New -> Project -> Check Customize Box -> Select Video Preset -> Choose HD 1440 x 1080 50.94i

Regardless of what I do, I cannot get the blu-ray option to NOT be grayed out when I go to burn the disk.

I have tried probably two dozen new projects with various settings and cannot get the BD option.

Tried both images and/or avi clips.

Tried exporting to a 1440 x 1080 50i AVCHD file then re-importing into a 1440 preset also. Still no luck.

Just not sure what I am doing wrong.

Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.

Alan

[tdtinker]

Are you upper field 1st?
tdtinker

[Ahender]

Are you upper field 1st?
tdtinker

Yes, upper field first.

[John Lewis]

Check upper right of Burn to Disc Interface to see if its BDR or DVD also silly suggestion maybe but in the 2nd tab is BDR selected there
also update to 6.07 just in case

[Ahender]

Not seeing what you are referring to. I'm browsing the Grass Valley site. Where might I find version 6.07 to download?

Thanks..Alan

[Ahender]

Found the download.

[Ahender]

Install version 6.07. No difference.

General question:

If the template I load meets blu-ray specs, does it matter what type data I add to the timeline?

Do certain types of data improve the ability to burn a disk to blu-ray.

Again, the odd thing for me is I did all this two weeks with great success.

Alan

[John Lewis]

Can you re visit the old project to find the difference something must not be complying

[Ahender]

Duplicated the settings and no BD.

If I were to print to file then import into a blu-ray template, what would be your suggestion?

Thanks...Alan

[Khoi Pham]

Can other program see your blu-ray burner? maybe it is dead.
If you want to output a file, then use the blu-ray exporter, or MPEG2.

[Ahender]

Edius sees the burner. I can burn a DVD but no BD option.

Export to MPEG2 the import in 1440 50i?

[Khoi Pham]

You can export to what ever you want as long as it is blu-ray compliant, then use another program like encore or to author and burn your BD until you figured out what is wrong, if you want to use Edius again, I don't see how it would help, it doesn't matter what files are on the timeline, as long as your project is blu-ray compliant it should work.

[Khoi Pham]

To be sure, in Edius you click on
Export/Burn to Disc/Style and there your BD button is grey out?

[Ahender]

That is correct.

I followed your suggestion to export to MPEG2 1440 and I then imported into a 1440 template and I now get the BD option.

That is the only format I have exported to, and imported from, that has displayed the BD option.

I do not understand it but I am happy I now have the blu-ray option.

Thanks to all for their feedback.

Alan

[Khoi Pham]

You should try to figure out what the problem is, this is not a good way to make BD, your files are being encoded twice, once from Edius and then again from the BD program, but your problem is really weird.