Burning a Blu-ray Disc from the timeline

From the Tools menu, choose Burn Disc and choose Blu-ray Disc from the submenu to render your project and burn it to a Blu-ray Disc. The rendered project can be played in a Blu-ray Disc player or on any computer with a Blu-ray Disc drive.

Stereoscopic 3D projects will be burned to a Blu-ray 3D™ Disc. For more information about working with stereoscopic 3D projects, see Stereoscopic 3D editing

VEGAS Pro burns Blu-ray BDMV format to BD-R and BD-RE recordable media.

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  • A 25 GB single-layer BD recordable disc can store approximately 3 hours, 42 minutes of AVC video (15 Mbps) or 2 hours, 15 minutes of MPEG-2 video (25 Mbps).

  • A 50 GB dual-layer BD recordable disc can store approximately 7 hours, 25 minutes of AVC video (15 Mbps) or 4 hours, 31 minutes of MPEG-2 video (25 Mbps).

  • You can store large amounts of standard-definition MPEG-2 video on a BD disc.

  • You can create your own rendering templates if you need to adjust the bit rates. For more information, see Custom rendering templates

  1. From the Tools menu, choose Burn Disc and choose Blu-ray Disc from the submenu. The Burn Blu-ray Disc dialog is displayed.

  2. Select a radio button to choose what you want to do:

    • Render image and burn: renders your current project as a Blu-ray Disc compliant file and burns it to disc.

    • Render image only: renders your current project as a Blu-ray Disc compliant file that you can burn at a later time.

    • Burn existing image file: burns an already-rendered file to Blu-ray Disc.

  3. If you selected the Render image and burn or Render image only radio button, choose your rendering settings:

    TIP For more information about the media settings required to createcompliant media files, see Media File Settings for Blu-ray Disc Projects

    1. Choose a setting from the Video format drop-down list to indicate whether you want to burn AVC/MVC or MPEG-2 video.

    2. Choose a setting from the Video template drop-down list to specify the parameters that should be used for rendering your video stream.

      Video for Blu-ray Disc can use MPEG-2 or AVC encoding. Blu-ray 3D Disc projects use MVC encoding:

      • The VEGAS Pro Blu-ray MPEG-2 video templates have an average bit rate of 25 Mbps.

      • The VEGAS Pro Blu-ray AVC video templates have an average bit rate of 15 Mbps.

      • The VEGAS Pro Blu-ray MVC video templates for stereoscopic 3D projects have an average bit rate of 10 Mbps.

  4. Choose a setting from the Audio format drop-down list to indicate whether you want to burn AC-3 or Wave64 (PCM) audio.

  5. Choose a setting from the Audio template drop-down list to specify the parameters that should be used for rendering your audio stream.

    AC-3 audio for Blu-ray Disc uses Dolby Digital 2.0- or 5.1-channel encoding at 192 Kbps or 448 Kbps respectively.

    Wave64 (PCM) audio for Blu-ray Disc can use any of the following formats:

    • 48 kHz, 16 or 24-bit, stereo or 5.1 surround (available only for 5.1 surround projects)

    • 96 kHz, 16 or 24-bit, stereo or 5.1 surround (available only for 5.1 surround projects)

  6. Select the Render loop region only checkbox if you want to use only a portion of your project. If the checkbox is cleared, the entire project will be rendered and saved to the disc.

    The checkbox is available only if you've created a time selection in the timeline.

  7. Select the Use project output rotation setting checkbox if you're rendering a rotated project and want to use the Output rotation setting from the Project Properties dialog for your rendered file.

    When the checkbox is cleared, the media is rotated according to its Media Properties setting, but the project itself is unrotated—you can use this setting to proof your project on an unrotated display.

    For more information, see Creating rotated projects

  8. Select the Insert chapter points at markers checkbox if you want to use markers from the timeline as chapter points in your rendered file.

  9. Select the Stretch video to fill output frame checkbox if you want to reformat your video so it fills the output frame size listed in the Description box. When the checkbox is cleared, the current aspect ratio is maintained, and black borders are added to fill the extra frame area (letterbox). This option is useful when the desired output format does not match the frame aspect ratio of your project.

  10. If you selected the Render image and burn or Render image only radio button, the File path box displays the folder and file that will be used to render your project.

    If you selected the Burn existing image file radio button, type the path to the file you want to burn in the File path box (or click the Browse button to locate the file).

  11. Select recording options for your Blu-ray Disc drive:

    1. Choose a drive from the Burn drive drop-down list to specify the drive you want to use.

    2. From the Burn speed drop-down list, choose the speed at which you want to record. Max will record using the fastest speed possible with your drive; decrease the speed if you have difficulty recording.

    3. Select the Eject when done checkbox if you want to eject the disc automatically when burning has completed.

  12. Click OK to start rendering your image file and burning your disc.