Blu-Ray (or HD-DVD) workflow on a Mac – client needs a disc this week.

[Wts(jmanz)]

I’ve heard that too, but the fact still remains that there really isn’t anything of substance out there yet on a Mac (or a PC for that matter) for authoring to Blu-Ray recordables. The burners come with some rudimentary options for disc output, which is a nice start, but hardly what we’ve become used to for standard definition disc creation. They should lend themselves well for high capacity optical data storage, but seems to be a pretty expensive way to go for data backup with all the other options out there. The price point (at least for me) is too high for creating data discs and entry level HD dvd’s. I’m still holding out to see what’s around the corner with Apple and Blu-Ray/HD-DVD. Maybe there isn’t anything on the horizon, but that’s hard to believe.

Jim

[Walter Graff]

So how are you guys burning HD onto standard disks? I have tried it with DVD studio pro with no success.

[Wts(jmanz)]

You have to use mpeg 2 and aiff audio; track only playback (set first play for the track); menus don’t work–hence the need for setting the track as first play (and deleting the default menu that DVDSP will create with a new project so you avoid the error message on disc build). You would build and format/burn to disc as you normally would.

This is if you want your disc to play on a Toshiba set top player. You can author with menus if you are going to play the disc on a Mac capable of playing HD content (which is basically any new Mac or older Mac that would support the latest Final Cut Studio applications).

Jim