Larry Applegate
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BluStreak Tracer runs fine on 10.6, 10.7, and 10.8, and will continue to run on all future Apple OS X upgrades. DVDAfterEdit is unfortunately unable to run on 10.7 and above because it was built for PPC, and Apple has removed their emulation support.
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Larry Applegate
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You will find Roxio Toast Titanium is capable of specifying the number of copies that you want to make, and therefore you don’t have to do anything but feed in blanks. You would build a DVD folder or image with DVD Studio Pro first. Toast is also more reliable.
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Larry Applegate
Rivergate Software
DVD/Blu-ray Authoring
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Bob,
The choices for authoring Blu-ray and DVD on Mac are limited. Actually the only choice to make even a semi-professional Blu-ray disc is Adobe Encore, and then if you want to make thousands of copies you must use BluStreak Tracer for replication. Apple Compressor and Roxio Toast can burn a Blu-ray disc, but the menus are not even as good as iDVD.
By far the best DVD authoring application on any platform is DVD Studio Pro. But it is part of Final Cut Studio 7 which has been discontinued.
Of course you can run Windows on the Mac, and then there are more choices. NetBlender DoStudio is the lowest-cost professional Blu-ray app, and it will cost you $3k for a minimum system. But it does not do DVD. The other professional systems are $30k or more.
There are several prosumer Blu-ray apps, including DVDIt Pro HD, which can replicate. But they do not take advantage of popup menus, which Encore does.
A new entry in the market is DVDLogic’s EasyBD. It offers spec navigation and menu creation at a very good price.
Hope this helps,
Regards,
Larry Applegate
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You can do a lot with DVDAfterEdit, but it requires learning a bit about the DVD commands. It is designed to work well with DVD Studio Pro and provides the ability to copy and paste commands between projects, replace tracks, etc.
Here is an overview of some of its capabilities:
https://www.dvdafteredit.com/node/1489
Regards,
Larry
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Larry Applegate
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There is no Blu-ray player that will play such a concoction, even if you could make it. The Blu-ray software has no concept of DVD, and vice versa. So when you play a DVD in a Blu-ray player, it only knows about one DVD at a time, on a red-laser disc.
Something like this might work, if you can upload your DVD’s to its hard drive:
https://ces.cnet.com/8301-32254_1-20027048-283.html
Or you might just use a software player in a Windows computer hooked to your TV.
Regards,
Larry Applegate
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Hi Jeff,
Your link is to an internal drive, from the picture, and useless WIndows software except for the player if you run Bootcamp.
I would go with Other World Computing’s 4-way external with the Pioneer BDR-206. I have one with the earlier BDR-203, works flawlessly.
https://eshop.macsales.com/item/OWC/MRF8BDSD12X/
or bundled with Toast 11 Pro:
https://eshop.macsales.com/item/OWC/MRF8BDSD12XT/
You can burn and do simple authoring with Toast. You can also do backups with OS X, no additional software required, though Toast is better for that. Also very limited authoring with Final Cut & Compressor.
With CS5.5 Production Premium you can author with Encore, which is potentially a much better solution than Toast, particularly for DVD-style authoring. For higher-level Blu-ray authoring, you can use a combination of Encore and our forthcoming software, BluStreak Tracer.
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Larry Applegate
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CS5.5 (Encore 5.1) claims to have fixed this problem in their release notes. I haven’t tested it.
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Larry Applegate
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Select your project and look in the Properties list. You will see initial settings for Audio and Subtitle. On a side note, leaving them at “No Change” can lead to unpredictable results.
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Larry Applegate
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On Windows, you can play it with ArcSoft, PowerDVD, or WinDVD.
On Mac, there is no true commercial Blu-ray player. But we have created BluStreak Tracer, a player emulator and debugger for Macintosh, which will play Encore projects with some limitations.
https://www.rivergatesoftware.com
Regards,
Larry Applegate
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The hardware support for Blu-ray burners in Max OS has been completely functional and stable for over three years now, since Leopard. It is the authoring software that is lacking.
I have an external BDR-203 (the predecessor of the BDR-205) installed in a 3-interface external enclosure, including eSata connected to to my Mac Pro via the OWC backplane adapter to the motherboard. I just fired it up and it works fine with the Apple Finder and our BluStreak burning software using the eSata connection. It also works fine with Firewire and USB.
Software that uses disc burning on the Mac must take exclusive access to the drive in order to operate it. (It is the same on WIndows). If one app has access, no other app can see it. If Encore were to lose track of what it was doing, what you see might be the result.
I can’t speak to Encore burning, since we don’t use it because we must decide the disc directory layout for layer break and seamless playback purposes. But as an example, when we take control of the burner, any mounted disc disappears from the Finder, and when we exit our program, the disc is automatically re-mounted.
If you like you can download our free burner software here:
https://blustreak.dvdafteredit.com/blustreak-burner
Regards,
Larry Applegate
https://blustreak.dvdafteredit.com/