Blu-ray and new FCS

[Ben Pirouet]

I haven’t got a Bluray burner, but i have burnt some HD content on a DVD using AVCHD, which the Blu-ray tool lets you do as well. So it is effectively a Bluray disk, it has bluray menus, plays in a bluray player etc etc.

Anyway, it’s simple yet effective. It doesn’t let you do much with it, the options are very basic. There’s no real tools for customisation, i also couldn’t find a way of getting a 5.1 track out of it either. It seemed to be either stereo or nothing, though maybe someone else has had more success with that.

I think we can all safely say it’s not a tool for making full on Bluray finals of a project that you intend to distribute, not unless you just want a stereo movie without a menu. But just for seeing what your project looks like in HD, or sending it to a client for previewing, it’s very useful.

[Walter Biscardi]

[Ken Jones] “2. Can anyone recommend a current Blu-ray burner? I was probably going to buy an internal burner, and was considering buying a Pioneer BDR-203. “

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[Bob Zelin]

Hi Ken,
when you purchase your BDR-203, you will notice one problem – you can’t plug it into anything. The connector is SATA and Apple STILL uses parallel ATA connectors at these slot positions. The products that you see refered to as “MAC compatible”, like the MCE Tech Blu Ray product give you a converter, like the Addonics parallel ATA to serial ATA converter, so you can actually take the plug from Apple, shove it into the Addonics, and be able to plug the other end of their little circuit board into the BDR-203.

So, why does Apple make it so damn difficult in 2009 ?

You know why – BECAUSE THEY HATE YOU.

Bob Zelin

[Mark Maness]

[Ben Pirouet] “i also couldn’t find a way of getting a 5.1 track out of it either.”

Have you setup your sequence to output 5.1 surround? You can do this thru the sequence settings.

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[Warren Eig]

For what is is worth, with just the removal of two screws, I removed the fan assembly in two macpros then attached a spare SATA cable that came with a Seagate hard drive, threaded the sata cable up to the optical bay and added a molex to SATA power cable that also came with the Seagate HD and I was in business with a Panasonic SATA Blu-Ray burner.

It took all of ten minutes to do this.

Warren

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[Ken Jones]

Thanks for the responses.

Wow. I just tested burning to a regular DVD-R and it worked beautifully. I played it on my Blu-ray player in our home theater and it looked fantastic – much better than outputting to my AppleTV. A lot of my work is short (3-10 minutes) so this should work fine. A DVD-R is MUCH cheaper.

I will eventually get a Blu-ray burner. Some resellers provide a “Mac Pro connection kit” with their internal burners. Or I might just go ahead and get the external USB/eSATA unit.

[Trevor Ward]

Hi Warren, I haven’t yet done this, but you didn’t mention if you put the fan back in or you are running with one less fan.

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[Warren Eig]

Trevor,

I put the fan back when I was done. I removed the fan to access the extra SATA ports on the mother board. When it’s all re-assembled you can really see your handy work!

Warren

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[Trevor Ward]

Thanks Warren. My friend and I did this. We only had a problem getting to the small second screw on the fan assembly. Other than that, the whole operation was fairly straightforward. I think it too us 30 minutes because we had never take parts off the computer before. Thanks.

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