BluRay Burning

[Nancy Kiang]

Thanks for your reply, Joseph.

I did not need to buy Toast. I have Compressor, which exports a Blu-ray image (can select option to play on insert, or add minimal menu info).

Actually, VLC can play a Blu-ray disc on an external Blu-ray player/burner connected to a Mac.

The re-cap for any other readers who are trying to do the same thing on a Mac and who have Compressor, and who don’t need fancy menus:

0. Get yourself a Blu-ray burner/player. I borrowed one from a friend.

1. Compressor: Make a Blu-ray disc image file
* File->Make Surround group
* Add your Dolby tracks (easy point and click), and your HD video file. Since the Blu-ray output is MPEG1/2 or AVCHD, I did a long render by adding an Apple ProRes file and let Compressor convert it.
* For Output format, select Create Blu-ray.
* Edit the file names you want output. There will be 3 files output: .ac3 (Dolby surround sound), .264 (video h.264), and .img (disc image).
* Select options to export to hard drive rather than to disc, and to play on insert or show menu.
* Wait a long time for the job.

2. Disk Utility: Burn the Blu-ray disc .img file
* Burn it just like you’d burn a DVD image file, but select the
Blu-ray burner for the output device.

3. VLC: Play the Blu-ray disc
* Select File -> Advanced Open File -> Disc -> Open BDMV folder, and then select the disc (not the BDMV file) to open.

[Jessie May]

I am using Mac Blu-ray Player to blu-ray files. Just like BDMV folder as example, I always launch Mac Blu-ray Player and drag the whole folder to the screen, click “Play Movie” button to play the movie directly.