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Blu-Ray on DVD-5 (DVD-R) with FCP success
I knew FCP could create a Blu-Ray disc with the share command in FCP, but I had ignored it since I didn’t have a Blu-Ray burner.
Instead, I had gone the route of burning Blu-Ray on DVD-R with Toast 10, which is a completely broken function and only works sporadically BTW. (Do not buy Toast 10. They’ve been working for 2 years to fix a problem they advertise as a feature.)
Anyway, I was going to try another route, creating the file in Compressor, and then burning in Toast blah blah. But when I opened compressor, I decided to choose the create blu-ray disc option and see what happens. Low and behold, it burned a Blu-Ray AVCHD disc right onto a standard DVD-R. You can get a maximum of 35 minutes.
It works in my Sony Blu-Ray player just fine. You can’t create much of a menu system or anything like that. Toast is much better at that, but since it doesn’t work consistently…
So if everyone already knew this, my bad. But I have seen numerous posts by fairly illustrious authors here saying there is no blu-ray solution on the mac with FCP. Well, there certainly is. And it’s pretty much a one step process. Drop file in Compressor (or share within FCP), choose burn blu-ray disc) option and put a DVD-R in your superdrive.
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[Bret Williams] “So if everyone already knew this, my bad”
Old news. I have created avchd on DVD-R with toast 9 and 10 with success. I would recommend buying it.I’ve invested in a Blu-Ray burner and Toast 9 and 10 have been flawless.
Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
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I’m talking about burning Blu-Ray onto a standard DVD-R with the Mac Pro DVD burner. No Blu-Ray anything involved. It’s a huge plus if you don’t want to purchase a blu-ray burner and blu-ray discs. Especially if your productions are under 35 minutes.
I’m sure Toast works fine for creating actual Blu-Ray on Blu-Ray discs. But there is a pretty well documented bug that rears it’s head when creating the hybrid discs I’m speaking of. Sometimes short movies will compress, but usually they kick out at some point with an error that there is a problem with the source media. Toast will work on these hybrid discs if you choose mpeg-2 as the compressor instead of mp4 AVCHD, but they look terrible.
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Sorry Steve, I guess I should’ve also mentioned in my post, don’t buy Toast 10 for the sole function of creating these hybrid discs. The rest of Toast 10 is great.
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[Bret Williams] “I’m talking about burning Blu-Ray onto a standard DVD-R with the Mac Pro DVD burner”
That’s what I’m talking about too. Toast has worked for me.
Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
Vice President
Chicago Final Cut Pro Users Group -
I didn’t know this, Bret. Thanks for sharing. I’m going to try this out today.
Brian
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Can you give step by step instructions? Maybe this is option is only available with the newest version of compressor…I just don’t see any bluray options. I have version 3.0.5
Brian
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Oh, you said you had bought a blu-ray burner so I’m confused as to what that is about.
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Yes. Just latest compressor and FCP.
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Good find – I had read about burning HD onto a DVD disc but didn’t realise you could do it with the standard DVD burner.
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Vice President
Chicago Final Cut Pro Users Group
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