Creating Blu-ray Files and Burning BDs

To burn a Blu-ray disc you have to convert your video file to a format needed for BD creation:

1. Press the To Blu-ray button at the Formats Tab of the Main Toolbar.

2. Load an Input File into the program pressing the upper Browse button.

3. Select the folder where the folders containing files needed for Blu-ray creation will be located. These folders will be named as BDMV and CERTIFICATE.

4. Select the necessary Blu-ray profile.

5. Click the Edit or Menu button to add the necessary effects, set chapters and create a disc menu for your Blu-ray disc.

6. Preview Input and Output File properties in the Conversion Options Tab clicking the Advanced >> button to make sure that the result will satisfy your needs.

7. Press the Convert Now! button

   Note: while the conversion is performed, you can select one of the available Final Actions in the Pause button menu to play sound of the converted video, to close AVS Video Converter or to shutdown your PC right after conversion. The default option is Do Nothing.

   If the output file is too big the disc selection window will open:

   

   If you have a double-layer disc you might want to record your movie onto it. In this case choose Double-layer Blu-ray disc option and click OK. If your file is still too big to fit a single double-layer disc you might use an option to Shrink to 1 disc or Split to 2 (or more) discs. In the first case the video will be converted with reduced quality so that it could fit a single disc. You should check if the quality is enough for you before you burn the movie onto a disc.

   Note: you need a BD-RE drive supporting double-layer Blu-ray discs to be able to record them. See your BD drive manual to find that out.

   If your BD drive does not support double-layer Blu-ray discs you have an option to record your resulting movie onto one or several single-layer discs. To do that select Standard Blu-ray disc and choose the variant of your BD recording: either Split to 2 or more discs or Shrink the file to fit it onto one Blu-ray disc.

   Note: in case you choose the Standard Blu-ray disc and Split to 2 (or more) discs option to create a Blu-ray disc and the output file size is over 23.28 Gb, it will be splitted into several files, each of them under 23.28 Gb size. It's necessary to write them to several BDs. Each of them will have it's own menu.

8. As soon as the conversion is completed and if the Final Action is set to default, the following window pops up:

   

   To burn the created Blu-ray files to disc, press the Burn to Disc... button. After that the AVS Video Burner utility will start to lead you through several simple steps. For more information refer to the Appendix section.

   To open the folder containing the created Blu-ray files, play them back and check their quality, press the Open Folder... button. After that you can still burn the files to BD right-clicking the folder containing them and selecting the AVS Video Burner option.

   To close the Information window, press the Close button.