Last updated on 2017-12-04, by David Brooks

How to Burn a Blu-ray Disc with Blu-ray Burner Software

Questions like "Can you burn Blu-ray movies", "How to burn Blu-ray movies", "How to burn Blu-ray discs" and "Can I burn Blu-ray disc" are quite common among various Blu-ray movie fans. Different from burning DVD discs, it requires you to do more if you want to burn Blu-ray disc, especially Blu-ray video disc for playback on various Blu-ray players and TVs. However, once you've successfully burned Blu-ray disc, you would fint it realy easy to do this. This tutorial would show you how to burn Blu-ray movies with 2 different Blu-ray burner software programs: a free Blu-ray burner software app - ImgBurn, and a paid Blu-ray burning program - Leawo Blu-ray Creator. You could follow the below steps to learn how to burn Blu-ray discs on Windows with every detailed information.

Part 1: Burn Blu-ray Disc with ImgBurn
Part 2: Burn Blu-ray Disc with Leawo Blu-ray Creator
Part 3: ImgBurn vs. Leawo Blu-ray Creator

Part 1: Burn Blu-ray Disc with ImgBurn

ImgBurn is a lightweight CD / DVD / HD DVD / Blu-ray burning application that everyone should have in their toolkit!

ImgBurn is free a DVD and Blu-ray recording application from the creator of DVD Decrypter. It could burn images to disc, write files/folder to disc, create image file from disc, create image file from files/folders, and verify discs to see if target disc is 100% readable. With the ability to burn a Blu-ray video disc, ImgBurn could help you easily burn video to Blu-ray video disc on Windows (from Windows 95 to Windows 8, including all the 64-bit versions). The below steps will guide you through the process of burning Blu-ray disc with ImgBurn program.

1. After you launch ImgBurn, click the "Write Files/Folders to Disc" option.

2. Click the add folder icon as shown above and add the root folder that contains all the other Blu-ray folders (BDMV, CERTIFICATE, DCOPY) that a standard disc has.

3. After you add the right folder it will appear in the Source area. To continue click the Calculator icon.

4. ImgBurn will then detect that you are trying to burn a Blu-ray video disc and give you that notice. If not, make sure you added the correct folder at Step 2. Click Yes.

5. Back in the main ImgBurn window, select the Device tab. Here set the Write speed (1) at the one your blank Blu-ray states that it supports. The default option *might* try to burn faster and since I wasted one empty disc already, I am not taking any chances. To continue, click the Options (2) tab.

6. Here make sure the File System is set to UDF (1). This should already be set by ImgBurn at Step 4, we are just double checking. Next, click the Labels (2) tab.

7. In this tab you can set the Volume Label (1) your disc will have. This only has a minor practical use but is a good idea to describe in a couple of words the content of the disc. Everything should now be ready to start burning, so click the Burn (2) button.

8. Right before you start the burning process, check the pop-up and make sure that in Content Type, ImgBurn reports BD Video and then click OK to start burning Blu-ray with ImgBurn.

Note: ImgBurn could also help you burn image file to Blu-ray disc. You could freely burn image files like BIN, CCD, CDI, CUE, DI, DVD, GI, IMG, ISO, MDS, NRG and PDI.

Part 2: Burn Blu-ray Disc with Leawo Blu-ray Creator

It would be frustrating if you’ve never done any optical disc burning before. But with Leawo Video to Blu-ray Converter, all things could be much easier. Leawo Video to Blu-ray Converter is an ideal and professional PC based Blu-ray burning software tool that could easily burn Blu-ray discs on your PC in high quality. It could help you directly burn videos in various formats like AVI, FLV, MKV, MP4, MOV, WAV, etc. to Blu-ray discs, folders or ISO image files at your own will. This video to Blu-ray disc burning guide shows you details on how to burn videos to Blu-ray discs on PC.

Leawo Blu-ray Creator

- Burn videos to Blu-ray/DVD disc, folder and/or ISO image file simultaneously.
- Create photo slideshows from various photos and burn to DVD/Blu-ray disc easily.
- One click operation to burn ISO image file to Blu-ray/DVD disc.
- Edit output videos to add image or text watermark, trim video size, adjust effect, etc.
- Create 3D Blu-ray/DVD movies with 6 different 3D effects.
- Add disc menu to Blu-ray/DVD disc, even design disc menu with personal preferrences.

Things you need to prepare for converting video to Blu-ray:

Blu-ray burning software: Download, install and kick off Leawo Blu-ray Creator on your computer.
Connect Blu-ray recorder drive to your computer. Then insert a blank writable Blu-ray disc into Blu-ray recorder drive for converting video to Blu-ray disc.
Get source video files ready for converting. Make sure source video files are protection free.

How to Burn Blu-ray Video Disc from Video:

1. Drag source videos into this Blu-ray burner. Set disc type (according to the Blu-ray disc inserted to the drive), quality and aspect ratio at the bottom.

2. Right click loaded video and then choose "Edit" option to enter the video editing panel. Trim video length, crop video size, add watermark, adjust video effect, add 3D effect as you like.

3. Go back to the main interface, select a disc menu on the right sidebar and then click the middle to preview and edit selected disc menu. You could get more disc menu templates via downloading.

4. Click the big green "Burn" button to set "Burn to", "Disc Label" and "Save to" options. After these, click the bottom "Burn" button to burn Blu-ray video disc.

Note:

To burn video to Blu-ray disc, insert a blank writable Blu-ray disc into the Blu-ray recorder drive first. Then, according to the type of Blu-ray disc you've inserted, set output disc type at the bottom left corner (as mentioned in Step 1), set the inserted disc as target under "Burn to" option in Step 4.
After setting disc menu, you could edit disc menu, including: rename titles, adjust the title position and content, text font, size and color, load background image/video/audio, edit the content on chapter list pages, etc. You could also choose to add no menu by clicking the "No Menu" option on the right sidebar of the main interface.

How to Burn ISO Image File to Blu-ray Disc:

1. Insert target blank writable Blu-ray disc into the Blu-ray drive of your computer.

2. Click the inverted arrow icon next to the "Add Video" button and then choose "Add iso file" option to browse and add ISO image file for loading.

3. After loading, on the popup "Add iso file" window, select the Blu-ray drive you've inserted a writable Blu-ray disc into under the "Copy to" option, and set "Disc Label" option as you like.

4. At last, click the bottom "Burn" button on the "Add iso file" window to start burning ISO file to Blu-ray disc.

Part 3: ImgBurn vs. Leawo Blu-ray Creator

Features	ImgBurn	Leawo Blu-ray Creator
Burn CD
Burn DVD
Burn Blu-ray
Decrypt and rip Blu-ray/DVD
Burn ISO Image file to DVD disc
Burn ISO Image file to Blu-ray disc
Create ISO file from disc
Create ISO image file from video
Compress DVD-9 to DVD-5
1:1 disc to disc duplication
Copy BD-50 to BD25 or BD to DVD for high quality compression
Copy 3D Blu-ray without losing any original 3D effect.
Edit video files: trim, crop, add watermark, change effect, rotate, etc.
Add 3D movie effect
Choose and design disc menu
Select subtitles and audio tracks
Preview subtitles and audio tracks with built-in player
Photo slidehsow burner
Edit photo slideshow
Windows version
Mac version
Cost	Free	$39.95/1-Year License

David Brooks

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