“I recorded some footages with my Canon camcorder and wanted to burn these videos to my Blu-ray disc. What is the best Blu-ray burning software to convert and burn videos to Blu-ray on my PC and how?”

You could know that Blu-rays have five times the storage capacity as DVDs do and Blu-ray videos have picture quality and sound quality superior to that of other videos. That’s why Blu-ray discs are considered as one of the best ways to enjoy your videos and movies on PC. Obviously, burning video to Blu-ray is quite necessary and important. And it is also critical for you to burn video to Blu-ray for a back up or copy so that you won’t damage your original video file. Here are some tips and tools for burning video to Blu-ray to guide you how to burn video to Blu-ray.

Part 1: Tips for Burning Video to Blu-ray

Before you start to convert video to Blu-ray on PC, you’d better check the coming useful tips which would help you make it more easily and favorably.

1.You can burn Blu-ray discs on a Blu-ray burner rather than a DVD burner since they are quite different to an extent. However, it is available for you to burn DVDs on a Blu-ray burner.

2.CDs won’t create “playable” DVDs or Blu-ray discs. You can store the files on a CD, but you won’t be able to watch them on a Blu-ray or DVD player.

3.BDR vs. BDRE: The difference here is that BDRE discs are rewritable.

4.Single vs. Double Layer Blu-ray discs: Basically, single layer discs hold 25 GB of data and double layer discs hold 50 GB.

5.Different from DVD discs, Blu-ray discs don’t support direct copy-and-paste operation to store media files. You need to use a Blu-ray burner to burn media files into Blu-ray disc.

6.To convert video to Blu-ray disc, you should get a Blu-ray recorder drive connected with your computer, and a blank writable Blu-ray disc for inserting into the drive.

Part 2: Top 5 Blu-ray Burning Software Tools

After leaning some helpful tips on burning video to Blu-ray, you should pay much more attention to how to convert normal video to Blu-ray with powerful burning software tools. Nowadays, so many burning tools are introduced and you should be able to identify which one would work best for you. In this post, top 5 Blu-ray burning software tools would be listed and introduced so that you can find the most suitable one.

1.Leawo Blu-ray Creator

Leawo Blu-ray Creator is a professional and amazing Blu-ray burner software tool which could easily convert and burn videos in different formats to Blu-ray at high speed. It could support video input in almost all common formats like MP4, AVI, MKV, FLV, MOV, etc. Besides, this Blu-ray burner also empowers to convert and burn video to Blu-ray from various sources, including camcorder videos, smartphone recorded footages, downloaded online videos, saved screen video clips, and so on.
What’s more, Leawo Blu-ray Creator allows you to personalize the video by editing it at will, such as cropping, trimming, adding text or image watermark, black margin removing, adjusting special effects, etc. and burn video to Blu-ray disc, folder and ISO image file as you like. It has a use-friendly interface so that any of you can convert video to Blu-ray quality without any technical background.

Leawo-bluray-creator

Pros:

>Work fast with easy-to-navigate interface

>Blu-ray/DVD disc, folder and/or ISO image file output supported

>Diverse disc menu templates offered and menu customization supported

>Video content personalization supported

>Photos to disc conversion supported

>Available to choose and import subtitle

Cons:

>Don’t support burning audio to disc directly

2.Hanso Burner

Hanso Burner is a free multi-purpose CD/DVD burning application which is often used to create backups or read ISO files. It can copy and burn high quality CDs, DVDs and Blu-ray discs. It is claimed that the burning application software is based on a very reliable engine and the latest burning technology. It is indeed offering many features for backup solutions and user-friendly interface. it is always updating and supporting Windows 7/8/8.1/10/XP/Vista.

Hanso

Pros:

>Compact and very easy to use for beginners

>Free to create data, audio, and video DVDs and CDs

>Files in ISO, CUE, IMG, BIN, RAW, etc. supported

>Ability to erase and manage rewritable DVD and CD

Cons:

>Only work for Windows

3.Express Burn

Express Burn is a fast, easy-to-use and powerful disc burning software application that is designed for backup needs and all media burning. It supports video DVD and Blu-ray burning from videos in formats like AVI, MPG, VOB, WMV, MP4, OGM and all video formats with a DirectShow based codec. Moreover, it can also burn data discs as ISO/Joliet, UDF or Hybrid and record ISO images to disc and so on. It helps you create your own menu templates and burn to recordable re-recordable discs.

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Pros:

>Burn Blu-ray discs and DVDs, Data CDs, or audio CDs

>Burn quickly and easily

>Support Windows 7/ XP/Vista/8/8.1/10/MacOS 1.5 and above

>Offer some advanced disc burning features

Cons:

>User interface is a little bit complicated for beginners

>The price for full version is a little bit expensive

4.True Burner

True Burner is a lightweight, easy-to-use and free burning application used for converting and burning standard, multisession and bootable CD/DVD/Blu-ray Disc. Suitable for Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, 8.1, 10 (for both 32bit and 64bit), you can create data and MP3 discs and DVD-video with True Burner installed on Windows. Besides, it has a simple interface which is clean with graphic buttons and functions so that everyone can use it to burn video to Blu-ray very easily without any confusion or technique support.

True-burner

Pros:

>A very light program with low system resources needed

>Burn the multisession and bootable CD, DVD, Blu-ray Disc

>Able to erase rewritable CD/DVD/Blu-ray Discs

>All types of CD/DVD/Blu-ray Recorders supported

Cons:

>Only work for Windows

>No menu templates

5.CDBurnerXP

CDBurnerXP is also a free burning application used for converting and burning CDs, DVDs(including Blu-ray and HD-DVDs) and ISO images. Since it has an easy to use and multi-language interface, everyone or even companies can use it to burn video to Blu-ray discs for free. It can operate on almost all Windows OS including Windows 2000/XP/2003 Server/Vista/2008 Server/Win7/Win8/2012 Server/Win10.

CDBurnerXP

Pros:

>It is a fairly light package and can be installed in a minute

>Burn a data disc, an audio disc, an ISO image and copy data or audio discs or erase a rewritable disc

>Clean interface and easy to use

>A portable version is available

Cons:

>Work for Windows only

Part 3: How to Burn Video to Blu-ray with Leawo Blu-ray Creator

Comparatively speaking, Leawo Blu-ray Creator is an ideal video to Blu-ray burning program that can help you easily convert and burn video to Blu-ray disc, folder or ISO image file within a few clicks on Windows or Mac OS. It burns Blu-ray movies from videos in various formats and offers dozens of preset disc menu templates for video to Blu-ray burning. Besides, you can also DIY the disc menus, edit videos and add 3D movie effects to videos you are going to burn. It is the easiest burning software you’ve ever seen. Follow the simple guide below to master how to convert video to Blu-ray quality in minutes.

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Step 1: After you open the installed program, click the Blu-ray/DVD Creator tab to go to the Blu-ray Creator module.

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Step 2: Enter Leawo Blu-ray Creator and import source videos by clicking “Add Video” button or via direct drag-and-drop. Multiple videos are available for burning to Blu-ray movies in batch. You’re able to set the output disc type and resolution at the bottom of this interface, add subtitle and select audio track, etc. The output aspect ratio is set as 16:9 by default for MP4 to Blu-ray burning.

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Step 3: You can select a video clip and click the edit icon to open the video editor, where you could trim video to exact length, crop video to proper size, add effect to the video for better display, add watermark for a branded output, and add 3D movie effect within this video.

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Step 4: The program offers “No Menu” option and dozens of menu templates by default at the right sidebar for you to choose. Besides, the program offers you a pencil-shaped edit button to edit disc menu, including: Add background music and picture, change title content and position, adjust text color, size, font, etc.

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Step 5: Click the big green “Burn” button to call out the burning setting side menu, where you can choose to burn videos to ISO file, Blu-ray folder and Blu-ray disc, input “disc Label” and choose output destination. And then click “Burn” to start burning video to Blu-ray.

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Part 4: Comparison of the 5 tools

The top five video to Blu-ray burning software programs are all helpful to quite an extent. And all of them have amazing features and some disadvantages. You can know more about the differences among them in the table content below.

 

Leawo Blu-ray Creator

Hanso Burner

Express Burn

True Burner

CDBurner XP

Convert videos to Blu-ray discs

Burn ISO image file to Blu-ray discs

Convert videos to Blu-ray folder

Convert videos to Blu-ray ISO

Burn photo slideshow to Blu-ray

2D videos to 3D Blu-ray

Trim video

Crop video

Rotate video

Remove noise

Add and choose subtitles

Choose audio track

Customize disc menu