FCP & Toast 11 Pro won’t burn Blu-ray disc

[Douglas Farrelly]

Hi Chris

Thanks for your response!

I didn’t do any of what you’ve mentioned.

I’ve just re-checked Toast now and the re-encode was on “Auto”.

As for the virtual clustering in compressor, I’m not sure how this it done.

Is it down the bottom right in the “Share” dialog box? If so then I have a problem as it doesn’t give me any options, it just has

CLUSTER = “This Computer”

Dougie

[Douglas Farrelly]

[Chris Tompkins] “You didn’t mention the size of your files in the original post?
Are you sure they fit? (thinking of the error)

Are you using BD-R 25GB?”

Hi Chris

Sorry about that, the discs I tried were all 25GB both BD-R/BD-RE and the file size in total was around 21.26GB

[Douglas Farrelly]

[Chris Babbitt] “I use Toast 10 to burn blu-rays all the time, but I don’t use h.264. Instead, I make an MPeg-2 file in Compressor. Don’t look under DVD settings. Instead, go to Formats/Mpeg-2/Elementary Stream. Be sure to select Blu-Ray in the “Stream Usage” window. Take that into Toast, along with your audio file, and make sure you check “Re-Encode Never.” MP2 makes bigger files than H.264, but will be fine for a 2-hour movie.
I have a Pioneer burner.”

Hi Chris

Thanks a mill for your responce. Have you any idea what size my 2-hour movie should be when I bring it into Toast?
Dougie

[Chris Babbitt]

I believe the maximum capacity of a 25gb BD-R disc is 23.28 GB. I think if you encode at around 25 mbps average, you should be fine. Be sure to use AC3 (Dolby) audio.

[Chris Borjis]

here’s your cluster setup:

https://www.devia.be/news/article/setting-up-a-virtual-cluster-to-speed-up-compressor/

[Douglas Farrelly]

[Chris Borjis] “here’s your cluster setup:

https://www.devia.be/news/article/setting-up-a-virtual-cluster-to-speed-up-c...”

Chris thats fantastic!

My first job tomorrow is to setup a virtual cluster. I’ll let you know how I get on.

Thanks a mill for all your help,

[Steve Eisen]

I have never had trouble burning Blu-rays using Toast 9, 10 or 11.
Encode to h.264 in Compressor using Matrox Compress HD card. Damm it’s FAST!!!
Using Pioneer BDR-203 and BDR-206 burners.

Here is a great reference book:
Fast Path to Blu-ray by Bruce Nazarian

Step by step instructions to help you.

Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
Vice President
Chicago Final Cut Pro Users Group

[Douglas Farrelly]

Thanks Steve, I’ve just put through an order for “Fast Path to Blu-ray” by Bruce Nazarian.

Where I’m at now:
I’ve fixed one problem and created another. Although I can now encode the footage using the “Elementary Stream and an 2.0 .ac3 audio file through compressor, “happy days”, when I bring the m2v and .ac3 files (both with the same name) into Toast using the settings Chris mentioned I’m not getting any audio on my Blu-ray disc, “not so happy days”

I’m really frustrated with it, that said I’ll keep on trying…

[Chris Tompkins]

I believe with Toast, if I remember right, you only import the vid track and IT will link to the audio track if it’s the same name and in the same folder and bring it in for you.
Try that.

Chris Tompkins
Video Atlanta LLC

[Douglas Farrelly]

[Chris Tompkins] “I believe with Toast, if I remember right, you only import the vid track and IT will link to the audio track if it’s the same name and in the same folder and bring it in for you.”

Hiya Chris
That’s what I have been doing, I’m not sure why it won’t bring in the audio, there may be a problem with the software.

This morning I decided to try something different by saying “NO” instead of “YES” when Toast asked was the audio file in the same folder. I then manually brought the audio in and burned to a BD-RE and long behold it worked, I am delighted so far! 🙂

As we speak I’m half way through burning a BD-R, so fingers crossed. I’ll let you know how it goes when it’s finished.