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At this point the consensus seems to be Power Director 13 will create an ISO image of a disk or will burn a disk directly but it will not burn an ISO image to disk for you. To do that you must turn to an external program. Imgburn is one, Windows includes an ISO burning program in some versions and there is a freely downloadable product from CyberLink in the Power2Go pack that will do the job.
Imgburn: http://www.imgburn.com/
Windows ISO burner: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/burn-a-cd-or-dvd-from-an-iso-file
Power2Go 10 Essential: http://www.cyberlink.com/downloads/trials/power2go-platinum/download_en_US.html
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2) Next select "Burn in 2D" (I haven't tried 3D yet).
It works with 3D BD as well. Creating the ISO file and burning the Blu-Ray disc take a bit longer, but there's quite a bit more data involved. The general method you outlined should work for any combination of DVD, BD, 2D or 3D.
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I did the same steps except for this one. Apparently Power2Go was included on my PD13 distribution disk, so I thought it was part of the package. It's good to know where it comes from if someone is asking how to find it.
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Sorry, My bad.
I meant PowerProducer will burn ISO files.
Thanks for clarifying that. It saves me wasting more time looking for a method that doesn't exist.
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I seem to have found the answer. Right-click on the .iso file. Choose "Open with ISO Viewer" from the menu. CyberLink ISO Viewer will open. Click on the "Burn to disc" button.
Fabbian
I am having the same problem with PD13. Where did you find Cyberlink ISO Viewer??
Thanks
Al
I found it in the menu when I right-clicked the .iso file I wanted to burn. It appears to be part of the Power2Go software which I assume was installed with my PowerDirector 13 package. An Internet search on how to burn .iso files to Blu-Ray suggested an ISO burning program was part of Windows and suggested the right-click technique. I didn't find the Windows program but the CyberLink program was there instead so I tried it.
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Cyberlink's PowerDirector will burn ISO files.
How? What are the steps required to do it? That's what what I was looking for when I started this thread.
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An ISO file is a "picture" of the exact same file that is on the DVD/BlueRay.
Actually, an ISO file is a complete image of the disk. When properly burned to a disk it will preserve all directory structures and contents on the disk. I think that's what you meant to say. It doesn't work to just copy the ISO file to the disk. The software that burns the disk needs to be aware of the special characteristics of the ISO file and use the information to reconstitute the disk.
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If you create a separate folder for each project and set it as your output folder then the only penalty to saving the project's folder is you may be saving unused assets. If you have plenty of disk space that won't have much impact.
If you are switching back and forth between projects and you forget to update the output folder you might wind up with some assets in the wrong folder. Pack Project Materials will insure those assets don't get left out of your archive (provided they were used on the time line).
A new user who hasn't thought much about project management is likely to let Power Director accumulate assets in the same media library. Pack Project Materials will help him a lot by archiving only the assets needed for the project. It's less important for the user who works out a good project management strategy ahead of time.
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I seem to have found the answer. Right-click on the .iso file. Choose "Open with ISO Viewer" from the menu. CyberLink ISO Viewer will open. Click on the "Burn to disc" button.
Fabbian
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I went through the "Create disk" step, clicked on "Burn in 3D", and chose "Save as disc image". Now I have my file with an ".iso" suffix on my hard drive. The help file says "Save as disc image: select this option if you want to create a disc image file on your computer's hard drive. Disc images can be burned to disc at a later time if required. Click on to specify the folder where it is created." Now it's a later time and I want to burn that disk image file to a Blu-Ray disk. How do I do it? I can't find anything in the help text that explains that step. Any suggestions?
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Eldor: When you use Pack Project Materials everything that is on your projects time line--and nothing else--is saved to the directory you specify. That's enough to reconstitute your project later. There are parts of your project that aren't saved. For example, if you produced (rendered) a movie it will appear in your media library but it won't be saved in the Pack Project Materials directory because it isn't on the time line. So you might lose a little time when you revisit your project and have to render the movie again.
Original clips that you imported into your media library but didn't use in your video won't be saved, either. That means if you want to revisit your project and modify it you may need to import the original clips again.
That implies that you need to keep your original clips in one folder which you will archive separately from your completed projects. Pack Project Materials is useful for archiving completed projects. It's a little more tricky to use for moving projects between computers before they are finished. One thing I learned the hard way: never pack project materials into the same folder you used to pack them before. Everything on the time line will be written anew to the folder, resulting in duplicate files. A sequence number will be added to give you unique file names but the files will now take twice the space they did before. If this happens to you, reload the project from the pack folder, select Pack Project Materials, and make a new folder. Only the copies of the files on the time line will be saved. The sequence numbers will be preserved but at least you'll get rid of the duplicates.
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