The first things I tried didn't work for studio 12 AT ALL. Video capture from an ordinary sony video camera with an hour's worth

of video got truncated down to the last 10 minutes only. I used Windows video capture, it was fine.

Next, I tried to burn a high definition movie onto a Pioneer Blu-ray burner. The "make a movie" page shows the drive as having

only 4.7 GB on it, and if you try to create the disk, it says the project will overflow it, but if you click "select the disk" it properly

reports the disk as being a 25gb blank in the drive. No matter what I try, it will not recognize the actual disk in the drive.

 

Studio 12 is going back at this rate. It has performed nothing properly. Did you guys lay off your entire QA department?

Welcome to the forum, studio works great for most people, but we need to work though exactly what your trying to do. Studio is a every versatile program which can do a lot, but only if you set the setting correctly for what your trying to do, not everyone wants to do the same thing the same way.

The file might have been truncated, because you might have captured to a disk drive on your computer that's not configured as a NTFS drive, a FAT drive has a two gig file limit, and if your capturing using DV format that's about 10 minutes, your other program might be converting the video to MPEG format, which would get you about a hour on a FAT drive, but NTFS drives do not have this limitation. This is a trade off of quality over disk usage.

When you go to make disk, what format (disk type) are you trying to make it in? If it's the default of "DVD" that would make sense for what you got, change it to "Blue Ray disk"

No matter what I try, it will not recognize the actual disk in the drive.

When you Install S12, you have the option of also Installing InstantDVD Recorder. If you did that, removing it from ADD/REM PROGS, might fix it.

BTW - FAT32 has a File size limit of 4GB. If you're Capturing to an External Hard Drive, they can be formatted to FAT32, rather than NTFS, which has no File size limit. My recently purchased External HDD was already Formatted to NTFS. Although I wouldn't Capture to it, since it's USB2 & not Firewire. 

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Its an NTFS drive, I know about the 4gb limit, please note also that the original message says that the windows built

in video capture utility did the job fine, which probally would not be true if it were not NTFS.

 

The disk type (from the disk type pulldown) is set to "blu-ray Disc", quality to "best quality". Next to that, the drive

says BD (E:) 4.7 GB and says:

 

available: 0

seconds over: 23 minutes

quality: %100

 

Obviously the 4.7 is a DVD, not the 25gb BD that is in the drive. Hitting the folder icon above that shows the correct

drive type (pioneer BD-RW)... Hitting settings presents a big mento that says "target media BD 25GB", so it

seems to know there is a blue ray drive and what kind of disk is loaded (single layer 25gb blu-ray).

 

Hitting "create disc", as said before just announces that the project size is larger than the chosen media size

and offers to truncate it.

 

Thank you.

 

 

Alright, I have figgured out that hitting "ok" from the settings menu will actually activate the

disk. Now it appears to be performing it as I write this. Another question is that it says:

BD (E:) 25.0 GB

Available: 50 minutes

Used: 70 minutes

Quality: %100

 

This is with a blank disc. Does this mean that it will take 70 minutes to burn this movie,

but the disc only has 50? Why didn't I get the usual "do you want to truncate" message?

Also, the settings menu listed it is mpeg-2 format, do I understand that I can make it

burn in avchd format, which is the native format of the sony HD camera I use, so that

it can get much more on the disc and still play in a blu-ray player? (avchd is mpeg-4

based). I pulled down the menu for that and avchd didn't appear to be an option.

 

Thank you, after this burns (if it burns) I will try it out in the player.

Does this mean that it will take 70 minutes to burn this movie,but the disc only has 50?

No.

This means that you have put 70 minutes of material on the timeline/project and you can put up to another 50 minutes more while still maintaining 100% quality.

In the settings menu, if you pull down the Image type, there should be an option for AVC

Cool. I played the blu-ray disc this morning (left it making overnight, it was getting late).

The blu-ray DLs using AVC (mpeg-4) must be huge, about 4+ hours I would guess.

 

Thanks for the good help,

 

Scott

Glade to see things are working better for you, there are always lots of people in this forum that are willing to help.