Blue Ray Burner

[Walter Biscardi]

As we always suggest on these forums, doing a Search for BluRay on this forum will yield instant results for your questions.

http://www.fastmac.com

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media
HD and SD Production for Broadcast and Independent Productions.

STOP STARING AND START GRADING WITH APPLE COLOR Apple Color Training DVD available now!
Read my Blog!

[Steve Eisen]

Considering the G5 is discontinued, the answer is no.

Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
Board of Directors
Chicago Final Cut Pro Users Group

[Roddy Jamieson]

I know you mean Mac Pro when you say G5, easy to mix up considering they look almost identical!! I don’t believe you were asking for clarification on the name of your computer.

Roddy Jamieson

[Victor Sieff]

I am trying to find a Blue Ray DVD burner that can be installed into a G5 MAC Pro Quad. Thanks

[Victor Sieff]

Considering that is the case. The only option I can think of is to create a Quicktime file in HD format onto a removable disk and take it to someone that has a Blu Ray Burner. Are there external Blu Ray burners out there that I can transfer via firewire from the G5 to. I am just getting started in HD that is why the question.

[Nate Stephens]

Victor, for all the details do a search on Blue ray…

Basically you can install the Pioneer Blu Ray burner, but the Mac will treat it like a DVD burner, You will need Toast 9 or Encore to burn Blue Ray. And Apple does not support play back of Blu Ray movies, yet.

So get a player also…

[David Roth weiss]

Victor,

I would imgaine that you’ve probably watched many Hollywood movies that were were not on Blu-Ray that looked great. Right? So, just make a widescreen SD DVD from your HD source. It’ll look fantastic and everyone will be very impressed. Just wait a while on the whole Blu-Ray thing and you’ll be a whole lot happier.

Good luck…

David

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles

POST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY ™

A forum host of Creative COW’s Apple Final Cut Pro, Business & Marketing, and Indie Film & Documentary forums.

[Ernie Santella]

I’ve done some research on Blu-ray burners. Here’s a few I’ve researched.

4X SATA Internal
https://store.fastmac.com/product_info.php?cPath=9_24&products_id=337

4X Firewire/USB External
https://www.sharbor.com/products/LACN5410021.html

I bought the 4X External so I can use it with multiple computers.

Ernie Santella
Santella Film/Video Productions
http://www.santellaproductions.com

[Victor Sieff]

Thanks Nate and David, that was the most comprehensive answer I got. I will just wait a while and see what happens. Thanks

[Victor Sieff]

Thanks Ernie, that was what I was looking for.