Burning

[Cope This 719]

I am having trouble saving a 1 hour and 10 mins video to Blu-ray disk, this is what happens.

After completing the video I start to encode. Part of the way through I get a message to save my project. I save the project and shortly after this I get a message saying that an error has been found and the program will shut down

Upon examining the Blu-ray disk it shows that there is 22 Gb used.

Now I realise that my setup is not the most powerful but I do object to writing a small project to Blu- ray disk and only using 25% of the disk as Elements does not support multisession writing.

Is my problem the lack of Ram, a dual core processor or just a underpowered CPU. I am thinking about getting a new computer what would be the ultimate pinnacle (no pun intended) as far as systems go today.

One last question do external hard drives suffer any penalty when compared with internal disks.
All my drivers are up to date including the latest version of Quicktime

Thanks John

My Details are as follows:
Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 @ 3GHz
Ram 4 Gb
System Type 32 bit
Nvidia Ge Force 8600 GT

Camera Canon HF-S21 connected via USB
Operating System Vista
Twin External 1 Tb Hard Drives (where I save my Elements 7 Project files.)

[John 'twosheds' McDonald]

In terms of BD burning I can't see anything wrong with your computer specs. But I am suspicious about the 22Gb used for a video that is only an hour plus a few minutes long. One cause might (emphasis on might) be that there is a small gap in the timeline. Try zooming in on the timeline and checking for gaps at each change of clip.

To save expensive BD coasters do you have a re-writable BD disc that you can use?

PrElv7 doesn't allow burning a BD disc to a folder but this thread has a workaround

viewtopic.php?f=57&t=3866&p=33611&hilit=bluray+folder#p33611

Also have a look here:

viewtopic.php?f=57&t=4309

[Cope This 719]

Hi John,
thanks for the advice. I looked for any gaps but to no avail. What is the largest project that you have burnt to Blu-ray? I am thinking of braking up my 1hr plus into 4 or 5 separate projects by cutting and pasting but this will take 4 or 5 separate disks. Any thoughts. The other thing that I will try is to adjust Nortons so that it does not do background work while the project is being written

By for now
John

[John 'twosheds' McDonald]

Most of my BD burns have been about 10Gb. A quick question: what software are you using to burn the BD?

I write my BD files to a hard drive then write to a BD-RE so that I can check it on my Panny BD player before I create the final BD DVD. To write my BD discs from the hard drive image I use ImgBurn. There is a 'how to' guide here:-

http://forum.imgburn.com/index.php?showtopic=9512