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Blue Ray burner for Mac?
Anybody have any insights on what Blue Ray burner can be used with a Mac? I’ve been asked to create a disc and know that Compressor 3 will be able to encode our HD content for Blue Ray, but having a hard time figuring out what burner we can use. Internal or external, doesn’t matter to me. Thanks!
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
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A Blu Ray burner won’t you much good since there are no Blu Ray authoring tools for the Mac. DVDit Pro HD will work for Blu Ray
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[eric] ”
A Blu Ray burner won’t you much good since there are no Blu Ray authoring tools for the Mac. DVDit Pro HD will work for Blu Ray”Compressor 3 will encode the video and I did find one Blu Ray burner that comes with Toast 8, which says it can author the Blu Ray disc.
Also, DVD Studio Pro 4 says it now supports HD-DVD using a Blue Laser option. Is this what I would need to do to author a Blue Ray Disc?
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.com
HD Editorial & Animation for Broadcast and independent productions.All Things Apple Podcast! https://cowcast.creativecow.net/all_things_apple/index.html
Read my blog! https://blogs.creativecow.net/WalterBiscardi
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Adobe Encore CS3 for Mac will burn to Blu-Ray. But I don’t think that comes out till June. Other than that I don’t see why any external Blu-Ray drive wouldn’t work.
https://www.macnn.com/articles/07/04/27/mac.pro.blu.ray.burner/
-luke
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Yes you can install a Blu Ray burner into a Mac but there are no authoring tools yet available for Mac. Toast will burn to BR but for data only – not to play in a Blu Ray player.
DVDSP has a blue laser option but they’re talking about HD DVD – both formats use a blue laser.
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[eric] ”
Yes you can install a Blu Ray burner into a Mac but there are no authoring tools yet available for Mac. Toast will burn to BR but for data only – not to play in a Blu Ray player.DVDSP has a blue laser option but they’re talking about HD DVD – both formats use a blue laser.”
Thanks so much for clearing that up. Wasn’t sure if HD-DVD used a blue laser at all, but reading up further, I see it means the disc will spin much faster in the player.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.com
HD Editorial & Animation for Broadcast and independent productions.All Things Apple Podcast! https://cowcast.creativecow.net/all_things_apple/index.html
Read my blog! https://blogs.creativecow.net/WalterBiscardi
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