Sony PMB: How to make BD discs..that work??

[JamesS]

Been trying download avchd from SR112E via Sony PMB, no trouble with that but then try to burn them to make a simple movie/disc etc via blu ray writer on laptop (Sony VGN-fw11zu) which has a BD- writer Evey time I insert a BD-R disc I get error message "cannot write to this disc insert a recordable disc". Now maybe i'm missing something but as far as I can see this should work, please help

[ebros]

I have same problem. My BD-writer is LG GGW-20L and evey time when I insert a BD-R or BD-RW disc, I get error message "cannot write to this disc insert a recordable disc". It seems to me, that Sony Picture Motion don´t support BD-dics (is it so?). Can somebody tel me, how can I work it. please?

[senu]

Your title needs to be more specific

Ive altered it .
There is a long PMB thread which is similar but is for folk who have mislaid their disc and Sony wont replace it

Saying that , if PMB wont let you make BD video disc you may need to consider 3rd party software ( including Sonys own Vegas Movie Studio Platinum 9 ( and DVD Architect Studio 4.5) which may get you far more elegantly than PMB

[ebros]

Yes, I have Sony Vegas Movie Studio 9.0 Platinum, but it has a bug, which Sony dont have resolved. Vegas can´t render to 1920 x 1080 50i Pal AVCH. It crashes every time. My camcoder gives 1920 x 1080 (m2ts) this format.

[senu]

Originally Posted by ebros

Yes, I have Sony Vegas Movie Studio 9.0 Platinum, but it has a bug, which Sony dont have resolved. Vegas can´t render to 1920 x 1080 50i Pal AVCH. It crashes every time. My camcoder gives 1920 x 1080 (m2ts) this format.

It may be specific to the camcorder you use though. Unfortunately AVCHD is a "standard" which seems to consist of non-identical codecs depending on which brand the files come from
As such Canon , Sony and Panasonic AVCHD files are not identical and editing software may find it so

Im pretty sure you can render to mpeg2 1080 though. the oly disadvantage would be file size, not quality

[t3odor]

A note for those still having PMB without BD-support.

PMB Blu-ray Disc Add-on Software

Such addon was not available when this thread and conversation was ongoing. I have LG H20L BD-writer and I asked about the issue from Sony support near year ago - they just answered it should work fine. However, this addon seems at least to let you burn avchd format directly to BD-R disks. It was a bit late though - as I already have done BD-R data backups for a year.

Could someone post a forum or site to contact more directly to PMB developers ?

PMB is quite awesome software as plain media library and now with good backup solution. I'm still awaiting few features though,

1. Is it possible to share or sync PMB database over network ? I use NAS shares for all media content and PMB is installed on 2 PC's. The current import&analyze logic seems not to work well with such configuration.

2. PMB should handle/remember backup disks as symlinks to removable media's (e.g. as in ACDSee) to allow easy access to backup content after media is deleted from HD.

3. more logic to configure folder/file-naming policies on import.

-- from my point of view in general, deves should concentrate on more common usage rather than that dsp-stuff in analyze-features.