Toast and Blue ray (simple DVD)

[Philip James]

Just purchased a La Cie writer for use with my Mac which is a little compromised since Apple doesn’t support Blu-ray yet so I can’t view any BDs that I author! I am intrigued about the conversation you are having re. frame rates since I have just finished an HD project at 25p and wondered how Toast would cope with that (I have an uncompressed QT of the film). I was hoping I’d be able to get it to encode at 24p or 23.976 fps which would create BDs for US + European markets, but I’m not sure what Toast will do with the audio – will it slow it down by 4%? I also have a 5.1 surround mix of the soundtrack and was hoping I could include that as an option on the BD but it looks like Toast’s options are rather limited. If anyone has experience that could help inform my decisions that would be great.

Thanks

Phil