Also need a good Blue ray burner

Also, need a good blueray burner. Best Buy has got nothing that looks like much (can cheap be good?) Anyone have a recommendation. I expected to pay $2-4 hundred???

I use this one in the second optical drive bay of my Mac Pro: http://eshop.macsales.com/item/LG/WH10LS30KMP/
Note that if you plan to create playable Blu-ray discs, you will also need Blu-ray authoring and burning software like Toast 10 Pro or Adobe Encore.
-DH

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Hi. I wonder if this idea is possible. I'm working with my Canon XL1 in parties, Events, etc and editing in my Imac 24 inch with Final Cut Express Pro. I wonder if it's possible to finish projects in 100 minutes length from XL1 with 20 to 25 GB each clip, export in 1280x720 (or better) to get HD, and Burn in BLue RAY with very clear results to show in a 52 inch plasma T.V HD 1080. If this is possible (or look alike HD) I wonder which Blue Ray burner will you recommend me for the task.
Thanks for your answers.
Best Regards.

Hi Skalicki. The reason why i asked that, it's because I made some test and what I saw in a 50 HD TV was very confusing. I made a party, I used 7 cassettes and in the final file that was 24 GB I made quicktime Movie, and of course with such a huge file, I burned that in IDVD with a 4.2 GB dvd. In a little T.V is awesome, in a 52 inch HD is awful. Another test, with Xl1, a short 10 minutes clip, burned in IDVD in h264 with 1280x720 HD is very good in the same T.V. What I understand for the test is: If a big clip (90' or more) remains uncompressed and it's burned in HD (mean BLUE RAY for a 90 minutes file), the properties remains intact and the XL1 becomes a look alike HD. The truth is: I wonder if this reasoning is right or not, but until now it's all what I understand.
Thanks again for your help.

Blue Ray Burner for Early 2009 Mac Pro

Hello Folks I don't know if I am in the right area of the forum to ask this question. Here it is. Can any one tell me whats a good Blue Ray Burner for the Early 2009 8 Core Mac Tower. I do own Toast 10 with the Blue Ray Plug-in.
Whats the difference USB 3.0 to USB 2.0
Thanks
Steve

videoguy4u,
I bought the LG/WH10LS30KMPT from OWC and installed it on my early 2008 Mac Pro.
Very tedious installation on the 2008 MP,but it works fine.
With Toast10 it works burning Blu ray and DVD,perhaps the original DvD drive can be removed.
Alt key needs to be pressed to open this second drive.
Go for it.
If you are in the UK carriage and customs payment will double the cost.
But it arrived within seven days.
The shipping company in the UK will send you an email asking you to pay the duty by email.
It was delivered the next day after payment.
Michael.
Michael

JVC Everio HD and PRE9 - Optimal Settings to Blu-ray burn

I have a new GZ-HM550 (AVCHD 1920x1080/60i and have really been struggling with finding an NLE that I like. I have plenty of computer (Dell Vostro, quad core, 4GB RAM, XP Pro, blu-ray burner) that I use for my photography business. I've tried Pinnacle Studio (sucks - poor output), and now PRE9 and I'm not confident I'm doing it right because I can't get blu-rays to author properly - just won't play on the deck. The only program I've found that works is the one that shipped with the JVC, and it's very limited in creativity.
I Adobe Creative Suite CS4 on the machine, but didn't think to buy CS4 Premiere when I bought everything else. CS5 Premiere would work, but only supports 64bit op systems and for now I need to stick with XP for other reasons - so I'm looking for a NLE that will work with these very large .mts files I was hoping that PRE9 would be it, but so far I don't think so, everything seems to take forever, and it looks like it's transcoding when it burns to Blu-Ray - which I wouldn't think it should need to.
Any guidance or advice on how to set up project and share options to get high quality output with this combination? Desired projects will be wedding and event videos with relatively simple transitions and menu's but in highest possible quality to blu-ray disc

Welcome to the forum.
There are only two formats allowed on BD, HD MPEG-2, and BD-compliant H.264. Though the AVCHD is a sub-set of H.264, it is not quite the same as the BD-compliant H.264, so one will need to Transcode for BD authoring.
One thing that I am not sure of (don't have PrE 9, so I cannot check), is whether PrE offers a choice of BD format. Others will be able to tell you though.
Also, just as with DVD, I strongly recommend using the best quality blank media, when doing BD. The quality and playability will be much higher. Verbatim is about as good as it gets. Memorex is about as bad as it gets. Store brands, and many others, are nearly as bad as Memorex. What brand of blank media have you been testing on?
Good luck,
Hunt

Time to buy a "real" blu-ray burner?

I think I know the answer to this question but I don't want to waste the money if I don't have to. I do underwater video. I use either compressor 4.0.3 or Toast 11.0.3 to encode my videos to make AVCHD discs using my super-drive and regular DVD 5s. Most of the time they look great on my 65" Samsung LED-LCD TV. However, if I have a scene where there is a blue background ie. a turtle swimming out in the blue, I notice what I think are compression artefacts. The blue is not a uniform consistent color but has some mottleing in it. And apparently I'm the only one who sees it, but I know it's not supposed to be there. I have modified my settings in compressor to Stream Usage; AVCHD Video format 1920 x 1080, frame rate automatic, Average Bit rate 8, maximum bit rate 16, frame controls on, Output fields progressive (video was shot progressive with gopro and tv has 1080p capability), Resize filter: Better
Deinterlace: Better. I have also tried a bunch of other settings but they all look pretty much the sdame in the end. So the question is, if I buy a blu-ray burner and use blu-ray media, can I expect better results since I would be able to encode at much higher bit rates. If the recommendation is to get a burner, what would people suggest- I would like to use it with both my Macpro workstation and my Macbook pro so an external burner may be the way to go. If not, what internal burner for the work station would you guys recommend? thanks and sorry for the long windedness.
Steve

I just made two Blu-ray dics images of this...
One at 15 average/17 max(for DVD) and the other at 30 average/34 max (for Blu-ray). The one for Blu-ray was defiantly better (close to the original) than the one encoded for DVD.
One big draw back is going to be your camera. You can't make a video any better than what your camera gives you. If you can match the Blu-ray encoding to the original video your halfway there... Personally I make an imagine disc and burn my copies from that... You should make an imagine disc, a small portion of the video and test that first on your computer or hookup your computer to your TV. From there you can see if there are any artifacts in the video. Adjust the encoder bit rate if need be. (This will save from burning to to Blu-ray disc ($$$).
Can you post the video info from your camera...? Codec that is used (not the format but the codec)... xy size.... and the bit rate. Finally, are you using a video editor?
The VLC app can playback a Blu-ray discs on a Mac:
http://www.videolan.org
Right click on the Blu-ray disc image and mount it onto the computer's desktop.
Open VLC... Menu... Open File (don't use open disk).
Navigate to the mounted Blu-ray disc.
Click Open.
More than likely... your Blu-ray player is having a hard time tracking the Blu-ray DVD. You have all that video data on a 4 gig DVD... the DVD has to spin faster and track across the DVD faster.
I've seen some petty good underwater videos from the Go Pro camera. Not a Red camera but... hey.

DVD & Blu Ray Burner Drive Trays Do Not Stay Open When Media is in the Drive

I have a problem with both Windows 8/8.1 and the Windows 10 Technical Preview (there is no issue when I run Windows 7).
I have 2 optical drives: 1) DVD Burner and 2) Blu Ray Burner (I just got the second drive a few weeks ago). They are attached to the secondary SATA Chip (see below for specifics).
The problem I'm having is that when I eject media from either drive, the drive does not stay open, but rather immediately closes. Before I got the Blu Ray Burner, I had this problem with just the single DVD Burner by itself. I was hoping when I installed
Windows 10 Technical Preview that this problem would not be present, but it is present in that O/S as well.
This problem will repeat continuously if I attempt to use the eject button and so I either have to grab the disc while the tray is moving, or if I press the eject button again on the drive at the right time, I can get it to re-open and not close (this
is tricky to get the button timing right as it seems like it has to be done close to when the drive tray is fully extended when it starts retracting). It usually takes me 5 to 10 button presses to get it to stay open. Sometimes it will stay open for about
0.5 to 1s before it closes again, but most of the times it just immediately closes. I also have the same problem if I use the software eject feature by right clicking on the drive and choosing eject.
Of course, the expected behavior is that pressing the eject button should open the tray, but not close it immediately allowing you to remove the disc.
Here is some background information about my system and how the drives are connected:
1. Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-EP45-ED3P Revision 1.0 LGA 775
2. Interface (for both drives): Gigabyte SATA II Chip - 2 x SATA 3 GB/s connectors (GSATA2_0, GSATA2_1) supporting up to 2 SATA 3 GB/s devices
3. Memory: 8 GB (4 x 2 GB)
It should be noted that I tri-boot between Windows 7, 8/8.1, and 10 Technical Preview and that this issue is not present in Windows 7, but has always been there in Windows 8/8.1 and now it is present in 10TP as well.
I've had this system for just over 6 years now and it is still going strong. It should be noted that I have both drives on the secondary SATA chip (as identified above), which is meant to be used with removable SATA devices.
Since the problem exhibits itself in both Windows 8/8.1 and 10TP, a reinstall of the O/S will have no affect on this problem and so this appears to be some other issue that is consistent between Windows 8/8.1 and 10TP.
I'd appreciate your support in looking at this issue - thanks!
Matt Caspermeyer
P.S. I also submitted this feedback through the Insider Program.
Matt

Hey Zagayer,
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
As you now have two optical drives in your Mac Pro, you need to be able to choose which drive to eject. That is built into the system. You just hold the Option key while tapping eject for the 2nd drive.
OS X Mountain Lion: Eject a disk
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH10613
If your computer has two optical drives, hold down Option-Media Eject or Option-F12 to eject a disc from the second drive.
Have a nice day,
Mario

Premiere Elements 11 no longer recognizes my external blu-ray burner.

I have used my Samsung SE-506BB-TSBD external burner many times before today, but for some reason Premiere Elements 11 is not recognizing it. Windows 7 sees it just fine. Premiere Elements 8 (which is still loaded on the same computer) also does not recognize it.
What do I need to do? Samsung's website is no help, but I have a feeling it's an Adobe issue since Windows 7 still recognizes the drive.

rbcourter
When is your Blu-ray burner not recognized
Premiere Elements 11: burn to DVD disc, burn to Blu-ray disc, burn to AVCHD on DVD disc, or all?
Premiere Elements 8.0/8.0.1: burn to DVD disc, burn to Blu-ray disc, or both?
and when you wrote:
I have used my Samsung SE-506BB-TSBD external burner many times before today
Did "....many times before today" imply that you could use the burner for Premiere Elements 11 and 8.0/8.0.1 before. I am trying to get a whether this is a "it worked before but now" or a "it never worked before" type issue.
Do you have the USB 2.0 cable connected to a USB 2.0 computer port directly or via a USB multi port hub? I take it that this burner does not have AC support? If you are using only 1 USB 2.0 port, can you set up the burner for 2 USB 2.0 ports?
Does the computer involved have an internal burner? Or is this the only burner that you have available to you external or internal for the computer?
Let us start here and then decide what avenues of further troubleshooting are available to us.
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ATR

Pavilllion HPE H8-1234 Blue-ray Burning?

Using a H8-1234 for import and DVD burning from a Sony Handycam that uses the HD AVCHD progressive format, I was able to burn a standard disc but not one in HD when trying to use the AVCHD format. Not much point in having a HD camera if you can't burn a HD DVD. Is the Supermulti burner in this PC not able to burn a disc in HD? If not can I just install another burner in place of the Supermulti? Also I would like to be able to burn Blue-ray disc's; is that possible and how?
BTW the Sony "Play Memories Home" software with the "Expanded Feature" works perfectly for importing and editing from the camera. They also offer a "BD Add on Software" to support the burning of the Blue-ray but I have not installed because I need to find out if the rest of my system is capable.
Hope someone can help
Randy

RRRaider, welcome to the forum.
Here is a guide to help you determine if your drive will burn HD. Personally, I couldn't find any data that states it is possible.
If the burner is will not burn in HD, you certainly can install a Blu-ray burner in its place.
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FCP 7 "Share to blu-ray" burn issue.

This may not actually be a FCP issue, but possibly some of you here are experienced in the matter.
Firstly, my video is 1080/24p ProRes.
This is my first jump into Blu-ray, and I'm quickly learning the many work-arounds, but have run in to a problem.
Initially I tried exporting a QuickTime with "current settings", and dropping it in toast and encoding/burning.
Video looked pretty good, but it was choppy. Google tells me this seems to be a common issue with toast and 24p.
Most suggest encoding with Compressor and then burning with Toast.
Tried that, but I couldn't get it to just encode the files and that be all. It kept asking for a blu-ray disc and ejecting the drive, as if Compressor was going to burn it?
When I would choose "cancel burn", my only option, the whole batch would fail. After all that encoding time...
Wasn't too depressed, because after digging more, Google also told me that many believe the h264 encode using the "share" function in FCP produces better results. Though the options are non-existent, it did great. My only complaint is you are forced to convert audio to .ac3. Well that *****.
So I went ahead and exported all the audio from IN and OUT markers as .aiff.
This is where my problem arrives..
I threw the h264 and aiff in Toast, chose "never re-encode", and it burnt fine.
Video looks great, no stuttering. But the AUDIO! It slows drifts out of sync...
Video is an hour long, and at about 20 minutes in, it's 1-2 seconds behind, and goes from there.
Why would that be?
Any experience with this?
I checked, and the ac3 that FCP made, and the aiff are the EXACT same length.
Any thoughts? Or any other work-around for keeping audio lossless?
Thanks!

Thanks for the reply, Johnny.
I wasn't saying AC3 s*u*c*k*s. And really.. Why is that word censored? I didn't do that.
I was saying it ***** that you ONLY have the option of AC3 with the "Share to blu-ray" feature.
And yea, I'm sure I would never know the differene, and especially not my grandparents with their home movies.
But it just seems d*u*m*b (can I say that?) to be going through all this trouble for a "lossless" lineage, ie. HD camera, FCP, Blu-ray burner/player, and have to compress the audio. Isn't that one of the main advantages of blu-ray?! Quality? Wether we can detect it or not?! Ha!. Okay..
I thought an easy workaround would be to export the audio to AIFF and drop it in.
No idea why it's drifting....but yes, in the end i may settle.
Though I'll feel cheated! Guess that's what I get for loving BOTH Apple and Blu-ray....
If anyone has other processes of getting good 24p to Blu-ray, please share!
Thanks again.

Blu ray burner question - FCP X

I am getting ready to purchase my first blu ray burner.
I make 2 hour videos and the files become quite large. Mostly natively ingested camera video utilizing motion templates, titles. transitions, vo, music, etc.
1. Do I need a 128G capacity burner?
2. What is the best quality burner at around $150-300?
3. Do I need Toast due the size of my output?
Thanks
Sandra

I don't know about the best Blu-ray burner to get (although I would check out those at OWC) but I DO know that you will need Toast Titanium with the Blu-ray option to burn to Blu-ray as OS X doesn't natively support burning Blu-ray.
Go to the OWC website - I think that they sell Toast Titanium at a good price with some of their BR devices.
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Premiere Elements breakdown by encoding Media for Blue Ray burning! Why?

Hello Girls and Guys,
Premiere Elements 10 stop to work by encoding projectmedia for Blue Ray burning!
Why?
Allways shows the message: The Programm is not working because of some error.
My System is:
Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit,
RAM 12GB, 1800Hz
Core i7, 3,8GHz
Radeon HD 6900-RAM 2GB
Do anybody know why this happens?
It happens not only with PE 10, also happens with Cyberlink PowerProducer 5.5 .

Thank You Steve,
the videos added are:
H.264/MP4 from Samsung
and AVI from Canon PowerShot
and MOV Videos from Canon Ixus
Camcorder Model is Samsung HMX-H100
The project settings were:
method: HD 1080i
timebase: 25.00frames/sec
resolution: 1920x1080
screenformat: 25-fps-Timecode
Audio samplerrate 48000Hz
scrennformat: Audio-Samples
There are no red lines above the clips if I add them to my timeline.
I store the media and project files on a partition of primary SSD-drive.( AHCI-mode )
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How do I stop my Blu-Ray burner from "sleeping" or going offline?

I recently installed a PIONEER BD-RW BDR-206 Blu-Ray burner in my Mac Pro. After about an hour or so it apparently goes to sleep or does something where the computer does not recognize it anymore. And I can't do anything to bring it back other than restart the computer.
This poses a significant problem when I use Compressor to burn Blu-Ray discs because Compressor might take 10 hours to process, then when it's done I lose everything because it can't burn the disc because the computer doesn't see the blu-ray burner anymore.
The only way I've found to get around this is to eject and then close the burner every hour or so. That's a good band aid, but not acceptable. Especially when I set to burn overnight or I leave the office for the day.
I've gone through System Settings and do not see anything pertaining to this, but I'd be happy to admit if I've overlooked something to fix this issue!
Please offer any feedback,
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Eric P

Thanks Dennis. I believe I did try that option to no avail. After talking with the techs where I got it (MacSales or MacWorld... don't remember off hand now) they said that that particular burner was known for this issue with Macs. They work with Macs, but they have that problem of going offline even if all computer settings say to stay active. I ultimately purchased a different brand burner and now it works no problem.
I also bought a casing for the old Pioneer so that I could still use it.
Thanks,
Eric

I have burned to my external blu ray burner 3 times, but twice ended up with glitches in the project. now it stops at 59% and won't finish sharing. How do I get it to finish sharing?

I have burned to my external blu ray burner 3 times, but twice ended up with glitches in the project. now it stops at 59% and won't finish sharing. How do I get it to finish sharing?

It's a complex project and there are a lot of possibilities. Among them is the length; there are a number of reports of projects that are approaching 2 hours failing to burn.
If it's a question of jarring Create Disk into action, one thing that has worked for some users is simply to click on and the Apply button (s) in the Settings pane of the Blu Ray Share window and then hitting Cancel. This can be tested by duplicating your project and selecting a tiny section of your sequence and exporting. Change the Output Device to Hard Drive and see whether Create Disk successfully writes a disk image.
You can also check that a specific clip isn't rendering properly. Since the process got to 59%, it may just mean that the burn couldn't be initiated by Create Disk – or it may indicate a problem with a clip toward end of your sequence. (If you can check the log, there may be something useful in there.)
Use the duplicated project and this time set a range for the last 30 minutes or so of the project and export it, using the Blu Ray destination. Again, set Output Device to HD and see whether it will complete.
Good luck.
Russ

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Using a Mac Pro Tower like the Mac Pro 2012 or similar what are the Blu-ray Internal Burners do you use ; LG or Pioneer , witch Model Number.
Creating Blu-ray on the Mac is fantastic but witch brand and model numbers for the Big Mac Pro Tower are you using with exellent results now.
On the Mac Apple Pro Apps or Roxio Toast Titanium are the only left options who are current and updated , but burners specified for Windows.
Frustration come when you talk to Apple they say not supported , Burners makers LG or Pioneer will say we dont offer support on the Mac.
Well if you can create Blu-ray on the Mac but cant get any help to burn it it is very frustrating and Not So Pro if Apple care for the Pro Users.

I use the new Mac Pro 2013. Final Cut Pro X version 10.1.4 and Maverick OS 10.9.5. An external Blu-ray burner LG BE14NU40. I've use single burn Blu-ray discs from brands like Maxell and Verbatim. That works fine. I have double layers Blu-ray discs not tried. I use it for home video’s.
DVD single works fine too. DVD double layers I have not tried but will also work i think. Reviews on LG USA stated that Roxio Titanium with corresponding plugin works.
I'm glad I found a blu-ray burner that works with FCPX. Compressor 4.1.3 but I have not been working with the LG burner. Not yet!

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I have a Mac compatible blu-ray burner in my Mac Pro. Will Bootcamp transfer the necessary driver for it to work in Windows Vista or Windows 7?
Anybody else have a Blu-ray burner in their Mac Pro's?

I'm waiting on delivery of my new OWC external and will strip the Pioneer out of it and jam it into the mac pro replacing the second windtubine upon receipt. I know I could have gotten the bare stand alone drive but with the case you also get the flexibilty of moving it around, cables and two 25 gig discs..all for about $100
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