VideoStudio 11 Plus and BD5 disks

When I decided to buy VS11+ I thought that it could do BD5. Seems that it does not, or am I missing something? It either does full-blown Blu-ray on BD disks, or AVCHD file on regular DVD disks. I don't have the former, and I could not read the latter neither on my laptop nor on my Samsung Blu-ray player.

Also, even if my Samsung player could read AVCHD disk, I don't feel like re-encoding hi-def MPEG-2 to AVCHD.

Any way to burn a BD5 disk (that is, legitimate Blu-ray structure on a regular DVD disk) from VS11P? Maybe some upcoming updates will solve the issue? It can burn DVD3, but considering that Blu-ray won the war, I really would prefer burning a BD5 disk instead.

Hi jockey,
I have not jumped on the HD rollercoaster yet so I can't help you.

However if you go over to the Ulead forum and leave a post titled how you have titled this one but to the attention of "etech" you may find some more info.

http://phpbb.ulead.com.tw/EN/

Thanks, I posted my question there.

I've certainly had my confusion over the exact same thing - in fact this week! So I called the customer service at Sony, and they were very helpful.

First, no matter how you burn it, from HD it will still be much better. Second, unless you have a BlueRay burner, you won't get true blueray quality. BUT the HD and BR discs give you more storage on a dvd, so you can put more footage on them at a high quality, and it's excellent. If you burn as a dvd on HD quality (I think it's 1420 x 1080?) then you will be able to play it in your PS3 player. This function is available with Ulead 11.5 plus.

One thing I learned the hard way is to make sure your camcorder is set to download in HDV, not just DV.

I've also learned that a separate 500G hard drive is the way to store my files while I'm editing them, because inevitably I end up with the original and usable clips taking up at double the original files. I delete at a later date, but during editing, it can get pretty huge.

And this is an old post too that was resolved some time ago.