Did you always record scenes with your high-def video camera on family or wedding or other parties, and want to watch it anytime? Would you like to back up precious holiday memories as high definition discs? It will be also great to enjoy them with high quality and large screen, for example, to watch them on your HDTV.
Here is a tutorial illustrating how to convert camera videos to Blu-ray movies and burn it on Blu-ray Discs.
What You Need:
High-def Camcorder: or called HD Video Cameras, used to record HD videos for fun, such as Sony HDR-XR100E and Cannon HF200.
One piece of blank Blu-ray Discs: Insert a blank Blu-Ray disc into the computer’s drive.
Blu-ray Disc Burner: Sony unveils BWU-100A Blu-ray burner, for example.
Blu-ray Burning Software: Sothink HD Movie Maker
Step 1: Transfer Camera Videos to PC
Attach the camera to PC and transfer the video from the camcorder into PC.
Step 2: Add and Edit Video
Add Files
Launch Sothink HD Movie Maker. Selecting “Add Files” from File in the Menu or directly clicking button “Add Files” on the Toolbar, a dialog pops up for choosing movie files to the program. You can add more than one movie file at one time.
Trim Video
There is a window on the bottom of the program for previewing the video added in. You can click button “Play” to preview your source video and, if you just want to burn a part of video content into Discs, you may realize it with Trim function:
Select the video you have added into the program, go to “Edit” – > “Trim” function, and then you can decide which part can be burnt by dragging the left/right slider to set start/end time.
As the picture showing above, drag the left triangle to a position you want it be the start of the converted video and drag the right triangle to a position you want it be the end of the converted video. Then the video will be trimmed before being converted.
Set Disc
After you’ve finished adding files and editing video, it’s time to set the recording parameters and burn to disc. This is the tricky part, as it’s the only step of the process where things can go very wrong.
Go to General Settings or Advanced Settings panel and do some settings for the disc.
Under tab “Settings”, there are four general setting items in the Settings panel:
Target disc size: Click the arrow and select the target disc size from the drop down list.
There are four options: “DVD-5 (4.7G)”, “DVD-9 (8.5G)”, “BD-25 (25G)” and “BD-50 (50G)”. Since it is to burn the video on Blu-ray Disc, here choose “BD-25” or “BD-50.
Tip: If the video size is less than 8.5G, you may burn the video onto DVD and create AVCHD movie on DVD discs, which also needs to be played on Blu-ray player.
Disc label: Write the label here for the disc.
The default label is the current date. Here you can input other words for the disc.
Video dimension: Click the arrow and select the target video dimension from the drop down list.
There are three options: “1280*720?, “1440*1080? and “1920*1080?.
Video frame rate: Click the arrow and select the target video frame rate from the drop down list. There are two options: “25 (PAL)” and “29.97 (NTSC)”.
Tip: “PAL” (short for Phase Alternating Line) and “NTSC” （short for National Television System Committee) are the two standards of TV broadcast.
Step 3: Start Video Burning
Make sure the checkbox besides the video file(s) you want to burn is been ticked. If there is none movie ticked, the program prompts when starting burning. When all the checkboxes are ticked, the movie files added in will be burned following the order of the file list.
Select “Burn” from File in the Menu or directly click button “Burn” on the Toolbar, and then it starts burning:
Note: If there is no disc in the drive, it pops up a dialog for prompting and HD Movie Maker automatically creates a folder for saving temporary files.
The burning function requires Windows XP SP2/Windows Vista SP1 or above versions. If the system doesn’t meet the requirement, HD Movie Maker will automatically create a standard folder to store the generated Blu-ray movie.
Sothink HD Movie Maker supports multiple CPUs and multiple core CPUs, and supports concurrent conversion for multiple videos with high speed
Step 4: Play Blu-ray Disc
When the burning is completed, you may enjoy the high-def BD video on HDTV with various Blu-ray players, for example, Sony PS3.
By: Susan Lyrics
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The Evolution of Blu-ray: How the Blu-ray Disc Was Born
December 21st, 2009Copyright (c) 2008 Titus Hoskins
By now, you have probably heard of Blu-ray or Blu-ray discs and players, but do you know how this high definition technology came to be born or developed? It’s a fascinating story, with some major battles thrown in for good measure, a story that is well worth reading even if you’re not a tech junkie.
In order to truly understand Blu-ray, you have to go back to the early 80’s when CDs or Compact Discs were introduced. CDs were a giant leap forward if you compared it to the current media at the time; mainly because the CD offered more storage, better sound quality and quickly became the universal standard for pre-recorded, recordable and rewritable media. CDs had around 650MB of storage capacity which was revolutionary at the time for data storage and retrieval.
However, no technology stands still, especially when you consider our insatiable need for more compact storage and higher quality images. Hence, we had the introduction of the DVD in the 90’s which had a 5-10 X increase in capacity over the CD. The DVD allowed for high quality, standard definition video distribution and recording, not to mention accommodating larger data application. Another key element to this seamless transition, was that the DVD spec used the same factor as the CD which allowed for full backwards compatibility. These key factors would not be lost on the development in the next generation media; this being the Blu-ray Disc. The beginnings of the Blu-ray started in the mid ’90’s with the introduction of HDTV sets. Consumers soon realized there was no media capable of recording or playing back High Definition content. There were no mediums that could store HD codecs, with the exception of JVCs Digital VHS and Sony’s HDCAM; but nothing practical like the CD and DVD media.
However, it was known that using lasers with shorter wavelengths you would be able to create optical storage with higher density. With this knowledge, Shuji Nakamura invented practical blue laser diodes. Its commercial use was delayed by a patent lawsuit, but eventually the Blu-ray disc became available and the next step in the evolution of storage media began.
The Difference: The benefits of Blu-ray Discs versus DVDs.
Although blu-ray disc are the same physical size of a DVD or CD, they are capable of storing and reading much more data. The reason behind this is its use of a blue laser as opposed to the red laser used by DVDs and CDs. The blue laser has a shorter wavelength, a smaller aperture lens and a thinner cover layer on the disc that makes it possible to create a smaller beam spot size capable of storing and reading much more data on the disc.
Of course, no discussion would be complete without mentioning the very heated battle between the two opposing technologies: Blu-ray vs HD-DVD. Each disc format have major backers, behind Blu-ray stands Sony, Dell, Hitachi, Hewlett-Packard, Panasonic, Pioneer, Philips, Samsung. . . and backing HD-DVD we have Toshiba, NEC and some major movie studios Universal Studios, Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros and New Line Cinema.
While many believe Blu-ray has won the battle and will probably become the dominant high definition technology. (Beta anyone?) The main argument being storage space, since Blu-ray offers 25 GB for single-layer and 50 GB for dual-layer; this is compared to HD-DVD which gives 15 GB for single-layer and 30 GB for dual-layer.
This is Blu-ray’s strongest playing card, a single layer Blu-ray disc can hold 25 GB of data. This is compared to the 4. 5 GB on a standard DVD. As mentioned before, a dual layer Blu-ray disc can hold 50 GB. This amount of storage allows the disc to capture a full 1080p High Definition image. It has a resolution of 1920 by 1080 progressively scanned pixels. A standard DVD has 720 by 480 pixels. Another benefit of the Blu-ray disc is it has a much wider bandwidth than a DVD. It can produce signals at speeds up to 48 Mbps. This is 6 times quicker than DVD’s 8 Mbps.
Furthermore, remember your old DVD’s will not be obsolete, as Blu-ray players can play DVD’s. Blu-ray players can upscale regular DVD’s standard definition images and convert them to a higher resolution which is needed on a HDTV. This process greatly increases picture quality, although it doesn’t actually increase resolution. The quality of the players up scaling function is often the determining factor in the quality of the image that is converted.
Considering all these points and features, the future of Blu-ray looks very bright indeed. Blu-ray discs and players will probably be around for quite some time or until another more advanced technology takes its place! But for now, we can all fully enjoy the superior performance and visuals Blu-ray offers us.
Blu-Ray DVD Questions & Answers
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