Necessary to format rewriteable Blu Ray discs or just erase to reuse?

kalewis wrote on 9/24/2014, 5:51 PM

I have had some failures completing burning test projects onto my BD-RE disc longer than 90 minutes as H.264. I can successfully burn 90 minute projects as blu ray mp2 and also H.264, first on BD-RE and then on BD media.

I notice my blu ray BD-RE disc reports only 5MB free in the Magix Disc Info menu after I burn a successful 90 minute H.264 project, which is really only 11 GB or so, not close to the 22 GB capacity of the Maxell BD-RE disc. I use Erase in the Magix burn menu before I burn a trial project. I wonder if the failure to burn a longer H.264 project is because I need to not only erase but reformat the BD-RE disc? I would rather burn longer Blu Ray projects than 90 minutes using H.264, still troubleshooting. I don't want to mess up my BD-RE disc or make coasters of my BD media. Thanks.

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johnebaker wrote on 9/25/2014, 12:58 PM

MEP will ask if you want to erase the discs the next time you try to burn a project so there is no need to reformat discs unless they have become corrupted, in which case it may be better to throw them away as you cannot trust them.

HTH

John