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blu ray authoring for Mac user
I really don’t understand why there aren’t a myriad of blu ray authoring programs out there, pretty much like there is for DVDs. I used to use Encore, but Adobe discontinued that. I’ve tried Roxio’s Titanium Toast, but that’s not working so well. I’d like to use Vegas DVD Architect but that’s just for PCs and I’m a Mac user.
What do people use commercially to make blu rays? I go to the store, and there are thousands of blu ray discs, so there has to be a program.
Any thoughts?
Thanks, Ron
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4 Replies
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LOL, I feel sorry for you, but ASFAIK there is not any serious tool in the world for Mac.
Probably the platform was dead for serious authoring when Apple dicontinued DVD Studio Pro and when they decided to not support Blu-ray.
Apples attitudes have a negative impact somtetimes!Andreas
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Ron, I’ve only just seen your post of February. I still make a lot of BDs for HD videos and find that my edition of Titanium Toast (Version 11 I think) does a great job. I need to attach an external BD burner (Lacie). The later editions of Toast say that you have to have an extra ‘add on’ to burn BDs, so I kept my old version!
Michael Slowe
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I’d suspect the market is really small these days for physical media. I like it, but most folks just stream and/or buy downloadable content.
Y’all take care,
Robert
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Blu-rays like you see in stores are created ‘manually.’ Unfortunately there is no software (and never was) which provides easy programming of BDs as there was for DVDs with Spruce/DVD Studio Pro. Creating a ‘real’ Blu-ray involves Java programming, and the process is the DVD authoring equivalent of programming a computer in assembly language.
If you don’t need all the bells and whistles (those cool pop-over graphics, menus, etc.), you can burn a single high-resolution feature to Blu-rays as others have described here, using Toast or similar.
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