#External blu ray burner mac 720p
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#External blu ray burner mac mac

As I have no Blu-ray burner attached, I have the option of using my SuperDrive (Pioneer DVD-RW), which I will select (note that it states 'AVCHD'), or the 'Hard Drive (Blu-ray)' which, when selected, will create a disk image (.img) that can be burnt to disc, in Disk Utility, at a later time. The process will check the duration of the video and the amount of space on the blank disc and calculate the best bit rate settings for us.Īt the top of the window (below left) is 'Output Device'. When burning Blu-ray from Share, the setting of the bit rates is done for us automatically.

#External blu ray burner mac pro

When using either Compressor or DVD Studio Pro to encode for our SD DVDs (MPEG 2), we need to assign bit rate settings for the encode process. This will open the Blu-ray drawer to the right. Just beneath the drop-down menu is a 'Create Blu-ray disc' box, select the box. The drop-down menu, upper left, should be set to Blu-ray. At the top of the window you set the destination for the elements that are created by the Share process. Select the Sequence in your Browser, select clips in the timeline, or set In and Out points on the timeline, then, from the File menu > Share.

Now that we have the background art for our DVD menu it's time to create our disc. Then click on the Options button and select TIFF. Place your playhead over the frame that you want and from the File menu > Export > Using QuickTime Converson.įrom the Format drop-down menu choose Still Image. If you choose not to use background art for your menu, you will be able to select from 5 supplied menu backgrounds. Before I start the Blu-ray process, I want to grab a freeze frame from the video, that I will use as background art for the DVD's menu.

#External blu ray burner mac 720p

In FCP 7, I have some XDCAM EX 720P (35 Mb/s VBR) video on the timeline.

#External blu ray burner mac mac

These hybrid DVDs will play back in a Blu-ray player, but will not play back on a Mac using the SuperDrive or SD DVD desktop players. While this process is not 'true' Blu-ray, it is more of a hybrid, it does give us a better look to our HD video and provides us the chance to experiment with Blu-ray without any of the cost. Personally, I'm in the 'lets wait until things settle down' camp.Īs it turns out, there is a way using FCP 7, our Macs SuperDrive and standard DVD-R discs (5's and 9's), to burn our video to discs that will play back on Blu-ray players that are AVCHD compatible, such as the PlayStation 3.

Most of the media on my scratch drive is now HD video, 1080 or 720, and while I can make excellent SD DVDs from this video, I do wonder how much better it would look in Blu-ray. After all, you don't want to have to purchase Blu-ray hardware twice. It could be that you don't yet have the demand from your customers, you want to wait for the prices of burners and media to fall or you simply want things to settle down before you take the plunge. So what, if like me, you are not yet ready to purchase a Blu-ray burner. The cost of external Blu-ray burners has come down, but they are still expensive, at around $350. While the authoring abilities of Blu-ray in FCP 7 'Share' are very limited, only a 'Main menu' and 'Chapter Menu', early reports are the the process works and is stable. FCP 7 is now Blu-ray enabled and using the new 'Share' function we can create Blu-ray content and burn to an external (third party) Blu-ray burner. With the release of Final Cut Pro 7 things have changed. For those who need to deliver Blu-ray to their customers this has been about the only way to go. Adobe Encore, found in the Adobe CS package, can author Blu-ray discs, Toast can burn Blu-ray and you can purchase an external Blu-ray burner for your Mac. For awhile now, we have been able to cobble together a Blu-ray system. Blank discs are costly and, until now, there has been no support from Apple for Blu-ray. Burners and players are still expensive and the hardware has gone through a number of upgrades. Burn Blu-ray playable discs on a Mac SuperDriveīurn high definition video onto standard DVD-R discs that playback in a Blu-ray player.īlu-ray has been out for awhile now, but it has gotten off to a somewhat slow start.