Re: Max Standard Definition Video Blu-Ray?

You need to focus on data rates. If you encode at 7Mbps, one hour of video will take up a little over 3GB of space. But remember, the numbers for amount of space depends on how they do the math. If you've ever noticed, a 100GB drive usually comes up around 93.28GB when formatted. This is because the manufacturers consider 1 GB to be a billion bytes, whereas the computer divides by 1024, not 1000. Based on conversion from kilobyte to megabyte, to gigabyte, the difference of 1000 verses 1024, makes up for the difference. That being said, a 25GB BD-R only holds 23.32GB of data. If you are using variable encoding, at times, it may take up more than your target data rate. That being said, you should have been able to fit six hours of footage on a 25GB BD-R, even with variable encoding and any additional menu overhead. The automatic settings when you choose Blu-Ray are set at 15Mbps for some odd reason, so under your transcode for the clips you are adding, choose something like the 7Mbps data rate, and it should work for you. DVD's are limited to 8Mbps data rate, but Blu-Ray does not have the same limitation.

Try these settings and see if it makes any difference.

I hope this helps,

Heath