How do I burn UHD Blu-rays?

roxics

roxics

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I just got my first 4K TV last week. Planning to pick up a set top UHD Blu-ray player in the next week or so. I've been shooting 4K (UHD specifically) for a couple years now on my GH4 and my smart phones. I'd like to put some of that on disc in its native resolution if possible. For a couple years now I've also owned a portable BDXL burner, the Pioneer BDR-XD05S.

Since I don't yet have the set top player or any UHD Blu-ray player software for my computer (does it even exist?) I don't have a way to experiment and test yet. I'm curious if I can just drop H.265 files on standard BD-R and play them back in UHD resolution on a set top player. Also curious if I can make a proper UHD Blu-ray disc with menus and so on, with what I have. I have Encore CS6.
 
roxics said:
I'm curious if I can just drop H.265 files on standard BD-R and play them back in UHD resolution on a set top player. Also curious if I can make a proper UHD Blu-ray disc with menus and so on, with what I have. I have Encore CS6.
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No, and almost certainly no. Your standard Blu-ray player can not play back H.265 as it doesn't contain the software for that CODEC. Even if it could read the higher density tracks, which it can not.

Since CS6 predates the UHD standard, and also the H.265 CODEC, none of the components (particularly AME and Encore) can encode in H.265. Encore in particular doesn't know how to build a UHD disc, which is certain to be different from a standard Blu-ray disc (I've never tried, but there have been darn few standards in any industry where the new was a perfect superset of the old, and had perfect backward compatibility). Just the fact that the menus top out at 1080p with Encore means that even if it could build a disc, it would be an ugly disc. I personally don't want to go there.
 
Thanks. I figured that with Encore, though I read something somewhere where someone said UHD Blu-ray is the same structure as HD Blu-ray, so I wasn't sure.

I know an HD Blu-ray player won't play the H.265 files, I'm talking about a set top UHD Blu-ray player. Will it play UHD H.265 files dropped on a regular 25GB BD-R?
 
roxics said:
I just got my first 4K TV last week. Planning to pick up a set top UHD Blu-ray player in the next week or so. I've been shooting 4K (UHD specifically) for a couple years now on my GH4 and my smart phones. I'd like to put some of that on disc in its native resolution if possible. For a couple years now I've also owned a portable BDXL burner, the Pioneer BDR-XD05S.

Since I don't yet have the set top player or any UHD Blu-ray player software for my computer (does it even exist?) I don't have a way to experiment and test yet. I'm curious if I can just drop H.265 files on standard BD-R and play them back in UHD resolution on a set top player. Also curious if I can make a proper UHD Blu-ray disc with menus and so on, with what I have. I have Encore CS6.
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I bought a UHD player that can play 4k content via USB. I bought a USB 3.0 memory card reader and plugged it in. It can play 4k files straight from my camera (GH4) off the memory card through the UHD player. The manual says it supports h.265 playback as well but I've never tested it. The player is a samsung m8500.
 
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I would say it is not practical to burn UHD Blu-ray disks unless it is mass produced.


I would recommend USB or even better stream it from a computer or over the network.
 
It is possible, I have an Asus blu-ray burner that I used to make some blu-ray copies for a theater. They had a high end beamer and played dvd's on it.
With the right software burning blu-ray is as easy as making DVD's. The theather did not use USB. I explained them that the beamer far exceeded DVD quality so they bought a blu-ray player.
But a lot of the personel is not trained, they just put the dvd's or blu rays in the machine.
Unfortunately I forgot the name of the software, it had a trial version with five free blu ray discs and that was all I needed.
 
Publimix said:
It is possible, I have an Asus blu-ray burner that I used to make some blu-ray copies for a theater. They had a high end beamer and played dvd's on it.
With the right software burning blu-ray is as easy as making DVD's. The theather did not use USB. I explained them that the beamer far exceeded DVD quality so they bought a blu-ray player.
But a lot of the personel is not trained, they just put the dvd's or blu rays in the machine.
Unfortunately I forgot the name of the software, it had a trial version with five free blu ray discs and that was all I needed.
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Roxics meant UHD bluray not HD bluray
 
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