Blu-Ray Burner for Mac?

[Graham Jones]

Hi,

check out the drive compatibility database at https://forums.xlr8yourmac.com/drivedb/search.drivedb.lasso — I would suggest that that LaCie external burner will probably give you the least trouble.

– G.

[Mark Abney]

Thanks for the suggestions Graham… I will check out the website.

-mark

[Warren Eig]

I’m using a Panasonic SW-5583 internal SATA burner. So far works great.

Warren

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[Mark Abney]

Thanks Warren.

Just wondering…. are you able to burn successfully directly from Encore? or do you save and ISO file and burn with Toast?

I appreciate any noob tips you might have too, as I am crossing over from DVDSP for Blu-Ray projects.

-mark

[Warren Eig]

Mark,

I never tried from Encore. I just make a disc image and burn in toast. The advantage to the disc image is I can archive the image and then do multiple burns later.

Warren

Warren Eig
O 310-470-0905

email: warren@babyboompictures.com
website: https://www.babyboompictures.com

https://www.atomfilms.com/af/content/knitwits
https://www.atomfilms.com/film/family_xmas.jsp

[Nick Righton]

FYI, Roxio just released Toast 9. It supports Bluray video disc burning now.

I wish I was good at one thing rather than average at many, but oh well.

[Dave Jenkins]

If you get an internal drive be prepared for a install that takes a bit of time and pulling apart your mac. It’s not simple. but doable.

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[Warren Eig]

[Dave Jenkins] “If you get an internal drive be prepared for a install that takes a bit of time and pulling apart your mac. It’s not simple. but doable.
“

Not as hard as you would think. It took about 10 minutes to snake a 24″ SATA cable in my octo to the upper DVD drive bays. I didn’t have to take out the fan.

Warren

Warren Eig
O 310-470-0905

email: warren@babyboompictures.com
website: https://www.babyboompictures.com

https://www.atomfilms.com/af/content/knitwits
https://www.atomfilms.com/film/family_xmas.jsp

[Mark Abney]

Looks like the optical drive is connected via IDE in my new Octo-Core MacPro.
Are you using a SATA card to run your burner?

I’ve ordered the FastMac internal IDE tray-loader model and will suffer through the 2x speed for now.

Toast 9 sounds promising too.

So many new toys.

Thanks for all the input!

-mark

[Warren Eig]

I hooked up a 24″ SATA cable to the two extra SATA connectors on the logic board of my Octo.

The SATA burner can burn a dual layer a 4x.

Warren

Warren Eig
O 310-470-0905

email: warren@babyboompictures.com
website: https://www.babyboompictures.com

https://www.atomfilms.com/af/content/knitwits
https://www.atomfilms.com/film/family_xmas.jsp