Blue ray authoring on a iMac

I edit on a iMac with fire wire 400 & USB ports, using premier proCS4. I asked this question on that discussion and was told maybe someone could answer it here. I would like to author to Blue Ray. Is there a compatible external BR burner or a work around using Encore and Toast 10? I googled but couldn't find an answer.
Thanks
Kent

Encore CS3 and CS4 can author to Blu-ray on an iMac with a CoreDuo processor.
Any external FireWire Blu-ray burner should work.

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Ramesh!
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Hi
I recently moved from PC to MAC and changed from Adobe to Final Cut Pro. I have no problems with authoring to DVD but I am struggling to see how I am going to do decent blu-ray authoring on MAC. Reason being is I have a number of clients that want both DVD and Blu-ray and I like to create interesting menus with background music. I am relatively happy with iDVD and DVD SP (which of course are not blu-ray compatible so no good to me) and I have just purchased Toast Titanium Pro and discovered you can not add music to the menu or do much else so it feels like a waste of money - any suggestions for good alternatives would be appreciated.
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David Bogie Chq-1 wrote:
If you plop the topic to google you can settle in for several hours of frustrating reading.
Ah, google!
There are dozens of PC-windows apps. Heck, these are free!
http://www.audioholics.com/news/industry-news/open-source-blu-ray-authoring
http://www.brighthub.com/multimedia/video/articles/69842.aspx
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Have no BD-Burner - but I think I tried to Save as a DiskImage of full movie in BD-Quality
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Drag, drop, burn
Drag, drop, burn
Toast 11 is the easiest and fastest way to burn your music, video, photo and data files on to CD, DVD or Blu-ray Disc™ for both Mac and PC. Archive up to 50 GB on high capacity Blu-ray Discs.
Indicates to me that a full BD-movie could be burned as this.
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If you know of a current tool, ideally MAC compatible but I am open to a good PC tool. That allows for blue-ray authoring beyond very basic menus like please share it.
Current Software I have tried that don't fit the bill:
Roxio Toast 11 : only allows for very basic menus
FCPX: Again only basic menu.
Compressor: Even Less...
I don't mind spending a a bit on a known good tool, but I don't really want to spend 3000$ to do this simple task either.
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I believe Encore is the best option after all my research. It is available once you subscribe to the new Adobe Creative Cloud.
I will say one thing that has worked for me as a blu-ray alternative, is to export the videos into a AppleTV/ iPhone / iPad compatible format (MPEG-4 .m4v) from FinalCut or QuickTime. The format is also windows compatible so it works regardless of the customers computer preference. A number of dvd / blu-ray players also support the m4v format.
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No.
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so, the standard will be BR, or Apple does some 'Superdrive II' which supports both HiDef standards... (I guess Pioneer has such a drive..? I've read some news..)
... but, we still miss software, which does the authoring.. encoding in HiDef is easy, but the disks have some formats and file structure, which is actually not supported by any MacOs software..

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My replication house is saying they have tried Encore as well as other authoring programs and didn't find Encore sufficient to encode everything properly.
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In reading other posts on this topic (Yes, a little late) most of the problems discussed are about costs for licensing, not about specs. As more and more small replication outfits are now replicating Blu-ray, my question still stands about formats and specs. Is Encore able to create proper files, and if so, what kinds?
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Does anyone know if we'll be able to use h.264 or VC-1 video formats for Blu-ray discs in Encore CS3?
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Blu Ray is not as easy as some folks think.
Wait until you try to get these titles replicated.....you will find that only Sony can actually do the job.
To quote from our replication company - who talked directly to Sony as they wanted to get into this:
>the Sony guy was very open about Blu-ray production and replication - basically he says only Sony has the resources and time to devote to authoring and mastering the Blu-ray materials and the up fron costs (starting at £20,000 up front before any disc is made) mean that this is never going to be something for anyone other than the biggest media companies to get into. At least, not for the foreseeable future.
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Finally, of course, Sony are also lying about the sales figures, as they have included PS3 consoles in the figure for Blu Ray players, which is sophistry. Most people buy PS3 for games, not Blu Ray playback. True BRD player figures are apparently well under 20,000 total.
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Out of the box you can burn and read Blu ray Data discs.
I'm guessing this is not what you are after.
I'm guessing that you want to watch Blu-ray Movies.
OSX does not support this natively how ever there are 2 solutions.
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