Quote: For burning to blu-ray, what resolution setting should I use for best picture for playback on a TV?
Also, in Power Director 13, do I have to hit "Produce" the video before moving on to "Burn" or can I just skip right to "Burn"?
Thank you.

You do not have to Produce before going to Create Disk.

Best setting for Bluray in PD 13 and any version of Powerdirector is 2D Disk tab, H.264 or MPEG2, 1920x1080/60i Audio is your choice. Most common is Dolby Digital 2 channels.

H.264 makes smaller content. Mpeg2 may be a little higher quality because there is less compression.
60i is the current Bluray standard. 60p is not.

I recommend H.264 because HD camera's use H.264 for the original video. No re-compressing the video.

Carl312: Windows 10 64-bit 8 GB RAM,AMD Phenom II X4 965 3.4 GHz,ATI Radeon HD 5770 1GB,240GB SSD,two 1TB HDs.

Thanks, Carl. If I intend to show my video creations straight from my PC to my HD TV and eventually a 4K TV (using a long HDMI cable), what resolution settings would you recommend? Thanks, again.

The above setup would be without burning to bluray.

You can play your video directly from the card using a USB adapter connected to TV.
Or copy the videos to a USB pendrive and see direct TV.
Most recent TV's supports MPEG2, MPEG4 and other formats. AMD-FX 8350 / 8GB DDR3
SSD SUV400S37240G / 2-HD WD 1TB
AMD Radeon R9 270 / AOC M2470SWD
Windows 7-64 / PD16 Ultimate

Hello Playsound,
I was thinking of using a long 50ft HDMI cable from my PC straight to my TV to view my produced videos?....Would'nt that be the ideal setup to minimize resolution loss? Anybody have opinions? Thanks.

Quote: Hello Playsound,
I was thinking of using a long 50ft HDMI cable from my PC straight to my TV to view my produced videos?....Would'nt that be the ideal setup to minimize resolution loss? Anybody have opinions? Thanks.

I understand your question, just tried to show other ways to do it, not even mentioned using Wi-Fi.

I have not experience with long HDMI cables, I think the biggest problem would be with possible interference and a small signal loss.
Image resolution (size) should be the same as the TV, I suppose is FullHD 1920x1080.

If you have to render the video in PD13, look for a profile that will connect SVRT if possible, or create a profile similar to the original video in this case if the original has a low bitrate, increase the bitrate.
Will not improve but at least should not worsen.
Example: bitarate 6 kbps. go up to 16 kbps.

Obervação: HDMI is digital signal so that it reaches the destination with a good level has no reason to be any difference in picture quality. AMD-FX 8350 / 8GB DDR3
SSD SUV400S37240G / 2-HD WD 1TB
AMD Radeon R9 270 / AOC M2470SWD
Windows 7-64 / PD16 Ultimate