How to create Bluray disc in PRE10

[Steve Grisetti]

Yes. Phantom Burner is, as I understand it, a virtual disc burner. In other words, it should trick Premiere Elements into thinking it is a BluRay disc drive. (In fact, it will appear on the Share/Disc option screen as a disc drive option.) Except, instead of burning your files to a disc, it just writes them to a folder on your hard drive.

[ckelly33]

OK. THat is my next step. At the moment I am trying to burn via PRE10 again. I've removed all running programs that I can find so maybe that will do the trick.

My BD-RE firmware is current. Though outside of BD's it appears to be functioning properly (and probably is fine), if nothing else works, I'm ready to replace my BD-RE hardware and see if THAT is the issue.

[Steve Grisetti]

Not to sound like a fatalist, but it's not likely a problem with your disc drive. It's just a Windows thing. Sometimes, for some reason, Premiere Elements can't make the connection to the drive.

Usually it's because another program is interfering (often Nero) and won't share the drive. But, for some reason, it's next to impossible to fix. Even removing the offending program won't fix the problem, I'm sorry to say.

So I'd recommend you don't drive yourself crazy troubleshooting it. It's often easier to just bite the bullet and work around it.

[ckelly33]

Sigh...

Would rebooting windows completely and starting pretty from scratch erase any remnants of other programs well enough to make this run smoothly?

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[ckelly33]

Well, maybe it was my anti-virus (Trend Micro) or AnyDVD (which uses the drive) or maybe it was just luck...but I got the disc done. Thanks for all of your help. I'm already dreading the next one!! Might play around with Phantom Drive between now and then and I will be sure to be careful about what I install on this CPU (Nero, etc).

Thanks. Your help has been HUGE!

[Steve Grisetti]

Glad we were able to help, ck!

Hope to see more of you around our Muvipix community!

[RJ Johnston]

Instead of Phantom Drive or Phantom Burner, I would recommend Virtual CD, which seems to be more stable. I have all three and have given up the Phantoms for Virtual CD. That has a Blu-ray burner as well.

http://www.virtualcd-online.com/

[Steve Grisetti]

Another great find, Robert! Thanks!

[George Tyndall]

... but got the very same result: a non-descript "Error" at 99%.

I had the same problem when I first tried to burn a Blu-ray with PRE7.

To avoid a "fatal error" at 99% during the burn, do NOT change the title--the time code--that PRE wants to give to the Blu-ray disc at the start of the burn and--voila!--problem (for me with PRE7) was solved.