• DVD Authoring

  Blue Ray burner for Mac?

  Posted by Walter Biscardi on May 21, 2007 at 4:18 pm

  Anybody have any insights on what Blue Ray burner can be used with a Mac? I’ve been asked to create a disc and know that Compressor 3 will be able to encode our HD content for Blue Ray, but having a hard time figuring out what burner we can use. Internal or external, doesn’t matter to me. Thanks!

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  Walter Biscardi replied 19 years, 2 months ago 3 Members · 5 Replies
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  Eric Pautsch

  May 21, 2007 at 5:25 pm

  A Blu Ray burner won’t you much good since there are no Blu Ray authoring tools for the Mac. DVDit Pro HD will work for Blu Ray
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  Walter Biscardi

  May 21, 2007 at 5:39 pm

  [eric] ”
  A Blu Ray burner won’t you much good since there are no Blu Ray authoring tools for the Mac. DVDit Pro HD will work for Blu Ray”

  Compressor 3 will encode the video and I did find one Blu Ray burner that comes with Toast 8, which says it can author the Blu Ray disc.

  https://store.mcetech.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=BD2XMPINT&Category_Code=STORBD&Product_Count=0

  Also, DVD Studio Pro 4 says it now supports HD-DVD using a Blue Laser option. Is this what I would need to do to author a Blue Ray Disc?

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  Lucas Fazzary

  May 21, 2007 at 5:41 pm

  Adobe Encore CS3 for Mac will burn to Blu-Ray. But I don’t think that comes out till June. Other than that I don’t see why any external Blu-Ray drive wouldn’t work.

  https://www.macnn.com/articles/07/04/27/mac.pro.blu.ray.burner/

  -luke
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  Eric Pautsch

  May 21, 2007 at 5:50 pm

  Yes you can install a Blu Ray burner into a Mac but there are no authoring tools yet available for Mac. Toast will burn to BR but for data only – not to play in a Blu Ray player.

  DVDSP has a blue laser option but they’re talking about HD DVD – both formats use a blue laser.
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  Walter Biscardi

  May 21, 2007 at 5:52 pm

  [eric] ”
  Yes you can install a Blu Ray burner into a Mac but there are no authoring tools yet available for Mac. Toast will burn to BR but for data only – not to play in a Blu Ray player.

  DVDSP has a blue laser option but they’re talking about HD DVD – both formats use a blue laser.”

  Thanks so much for clearing that up. Wasn’t sure if HD-DVD used a blue laser at all, but reading up further, I see it means the disc will spin much faster in the player.

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