Burning Blu-ray from FCS 7

I want to try burning an HD project to blu-ray. I can see that it is possible to use the 'Share' function to author directly from FCP. My questions:
1. Is there a specific burner required that will operate with an iMac intel 11.1 or will any external mac compatible blu-ray burner work? I imagine firewire 800 would be the connection required?
2. I have imported my 5D Canon HD footage converting it to apple ProRes 442 1920 x 1080 (pal) and am assuming this format will export from theFCP timeline project using the 'share' option.
3. If There are problems using the share function I expect to try the compressor and adobe encore authoring and I guess the same questions above would be relevant.
Grateful for any helpful feedback, but particularly in relation to buying a blu-ray burner which is my next step.

Hi Tony,
1. Just got an external BR player from these people, connects via USB, works great : www.mcetech.com
2. Share from FCP doesn't work very well. Better to export as Quicktime at current settings then drop into Compressor and go from there.
3. Never tried Encore but Toast also works well.

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Burning Blu-ray from FCP? Seems I've encountered a glitch.

Followed these instructions (Ken Stone):
http://www.kenstone.net/fcphomepage/burn_br_mac_superdrivestone.html
Only difference is instead of using SD disks as instructed in those guidelines, I'm using actual Blu-ray disks with an external Blu-ray burner. The external drive is turned on and plugged into my mac and I chose it as the burning device (meaning my mac recognizes the drive).
Well, the export process finished and it didn't prompt me to insert a blank disk for burning, but it left the Blu-ray and AC3 file in my desktop.
How can I take those files and now create a Blu-ray disk? Is that something I can do from FCP or Compressor? I'm kinda stumped.
Any help is appreciated!

Ha... yea, it was a total blonde moment on my part (I have blonde hair and I have the moments frequently... haha). BUT! The question still stands! Because the drive wasn't plugged in it didn't burn the DVD, it just saved the video and audio file to do so. So is it possible to get them back in somehow to burn the disk w/o having to go through the LONG export process again?
Fortunately, I guess because it didn't recognize the drive, FCP actually turned it into a disk image. I found that file this morning in my 'Movies' folder. I was then able to open Disk Utilities and burn it that way. I'm the proud new father of my first Blu-ray disk! Needless to say, the results are STUNNING. I'm totally blown away.
I'm gonna mark this as 'answered' because I found the disk image... but just for the heck of it... I'd still like to know if there's a way to get the BD file and AC3 back into Final Cut, should I not be so fortunate to get a disk image again in the future.

PE7 Locks up while burning Blu-Ray from AVCHD project

I am having problems burning my completed project to Blu-Ray. It is a large project at just over 2 1/2 hours but I have successfully burned projects like this in the past. My source files were AVCHD from my Sony HDR-SR11 camcorder. I know that AVCHD is very challenging for even the fastest PCs so I knew to break the project up into approximately 20-minute segments to complete my edits, voiceovers, transitions, etc. I then converted each of these files to MPEGs in the format H264 1920 X 1080i 30. I imported all of my individual H264 projects into a single new project and I even rendered that complete mega-project before attempting to burn.
The resulting file burned to DVD without a problem of any kind. But when I try to burn the project to Blu-Ray, I get tantalizing close to the end (98 - 99%) and then encounter some sort of error. Sometimes the program will pause with a dialog box saying that PE is runnning low on memory and that I should save my project and "proceed with caution". Sometimes if I click "OK" the encoding process will resume, but most times it just freezes at that point. And often the project will halt at 98% without ever giving any error messages. All that you see is the label on the progress bar chart changes from "encoding media" to "error."
I've had this failure to complete burning about six times in various forms. I even tried making two half-sized projects out of my big one and the smaller ones bombed in exactly the same way. I've tried disabling all background programs such as defraggers, virus scans -- anything I could think of that would be competing for my system's memory. All to no avail. But, of course, it takes at least ten hours before you find out that you are still having the same problem.
My computer is about six months old and I tried to get the top-of-the-line at the time. I have an Intel quad-core processor @ 2.66 GHz, 4 GB of DDR2-800 RAM, ATI Radeon 3650 video card with 512 MB on-board memory, 500 GB hard drive (that had about 425 GB free when I started) and Win XP SP2.
These same techniques and hardware burned a 1 1/2-hour AVCHD project for me about six months ago with minimal hassle, but all the same procedures this time have had nothing but failure. Anyone got any ideas about where I am going wrong?

Yes, it surprised me too. Not sure what to make of it but I fear it is only an indication of how flawed the processes are for my particular burn. No, no scene markers closer than a couple of minutes to each other. Most are separated by 15 minutes or so.
I placed the menu markers by clicking on the scene in the sceneline view. Silly me, I just assumed that the first frame in the scene is where the menu marker would be placed. Didn't work out that way. You really couldn't see the offset until you blew the timeline scale 'way up. However, I had noticed while previewing the project that some of the scene markers seemed to be off a bit. In other words, when I clicked on a scene to preview it, I seemed to get a flash of a few frames of the previous scene before the view switched to what I had anticipated seeing. I didn't think too much about it at the time and dismissed it as one of the approximations used in the preview process. Closer investigation yesterday showed the offsets to be genuine.
But the heartbreaking thing about those offsets is that correcting them didn't have any effect on my problem. The burn process still froze at 98%.
I'm suspecting now that "98%" is not 98% of the timeline but rather 98% of all the processes that the software is going through in formatting the data for burning. In my continual clutching at straws, I'm going to turn my scrutiny next to the musical background tracks that I added to my project. There are unquestionably gaps between those tracks. The software simply would not allow me to butt two background music tracks right up against each other. Every time I tried to drag and drop them into that position, the software would offset my video track by the duration of the music clip I was trying to add. Only when I offset the music clip a couple of seconds would the video clip stay where it was.
God and the software developers only know if such a thing could be a problem for burning an AVCHD-based project. I know for sure that I had these audio gaps in previous projects and they never seemed to cause a problem. But the size of my current project may be driving the processes into areas where they are not able to reliably go.
I've got a couple of things to try next. I'm going to delete all of the background music tracks to see if a fault in their rendering may be what is going on at the 98% point in the burn process. The second is to position myself in front of my computer when the process reaches 98% thereby to see if any "magic" dialog boxes spring up to explain what is happening. What I've been doing so far is to just let the burn process go while I go off to do other things - like sleep. This time I'm going to make it my mission to be there at 98% to see if there will be any leads to what is breaking down at that point.
This has been a very frustrating process. I've basically tried to do exactly what I did successfully a couple of times before. Last time I successfully burned an AVCHD-based project, I wrote out a set of step-by-step procedures so that I would not leave out any of the esoteric little steps that can be so important. I've followed them religiously but this time they haven't worked. Aaaarrrgghhh!!!!
Don

We can now burn blu ray from DVD SP?

This was shown on the Apple 3.5 compressor for the pro studio upgrade.
I have a internal blu ray burner on my mac pro.
Burning a Disc
Use Apple-designed menus in a Blu-ray disc or DVD.
Watch the video

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2133804&tstart=0

Burning blu-ray from imovie

I have tons of HD footage in imovie and want to start putting these onto blu-ray discs. i have a pioneer bd-rw and toast 10. thought it would be pretty plug-n-play but when i started dragging my events into toast, i was limited to 98 clips, which amounted to 4 gb of footage when a disc can hold 23 gb! how do i get around this?
i have so much footage and so little time to do video editing, etc. all i want is to put my raw unedited footage onto blu-ray disc. can anyone help? thx!

I agree with Winston. My guess is that Toast is not running out of space. It is trying to create a menu item for each separate clip, and runs out of space in its menu creator. When you create a project and make a movie, it will only take one menu slot. Or you can add chapter markers if you want to subdivide further with creating a menu item for every clip.

Is it possible to create DVD Templates with Motion for burning Blue Ray DVDs from Final Cut Pro X?

Is it possible to create DVD Templates with Motion for burning Blue Ray DVDs from Final Cut Pro X?

As far as I know, motion templates can only be used with DVD Studio Pro. FCP X only lets you add a background image to the DVD menu.

I want to burn blu ray discs from FVPX, compatible mac burner.

I want to burn blu ray discs from FCPX projects. I note I should be able to but any thought on a mac compatible burner. Why is so difficult to find one??

I would recommend navigating to www.macsales.com, because they specialize in Macs they can point you to devices that should work with your computer. Please make sure you also have software for burning Bluray discs, i'd recommend Titanium Toast.

How do I burn BLU-RAY DVDS from my iMacs?

I own a video production company and we can burn dvds in compressor, but we can't figure out how to setup a menu with multiple tracks to select different options. Like a menu page. Does anyone know how to do this on a Mac or by using an optional software?
A couple times compressor has gave us errors on burning a normal mov clip to Blu Ray, so if you recomeend or know any other softwares or even if I have to purchase a PC just to burn Blu Ray DVD's, can you please help me.

Does anyone know how to do this on a Mac or by using an optional software?
I do this using iDVD which is no longer available from Apple, but still available as part of iLife 09 and 11 versions from online vendors. You can either use Chapters or (my preference) simply import your videos as separate movies which will then show up as separate entities in the menu (and selectable separately).
FWIW, Macs do not support burning or playing blu-ray without additional software (and a blu-ray burner) - Roxio Toast is one that will work.

Burning Blu-ray disks. Third party hardware needed?

I have read from earlier posts that it is not possible to burn Blu-ray© disks from DVDSP. Can third party hardware be purchased to burn such a disk having assembled the digital assets in DVDSP? Any recommendations?
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Thanks for your responses. I see that from DVD SP Late-Breaking news that'HD DVD projects authored by DVD SP 4.0.3 fully comply with the 1.0 version of he HD DVD specification...the new HD DVD standard. The disks will play on Apple DVD Player version 4.6.5 or later.
I haven't commited to the Blu-ray© player, just the Sony HD camcorder.
When the time comes, I will burn to a red laser disc per the Apple recommendation. And thanks for the Roxio link which makes it clear that a PC is needed for Blu-ray©
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Burning Blu-Ray?

I'm about to order a Blu-Ray internal burner for my Mac tower.
I heard a rumour that Apple is not necessarily friendly to Blu-Ray. Maybe I've heard wrong.
What app would you recommend for creating Blu-Ray disks? What is the official Blu-Ray codec, and can I render this codec from FCP (latest version) or Compressor?
And then will DVD Studio Pro do the burning?
All ears,
Ben

FCP 7 can burn directly to Blu-ray from your HD timeline.
Compressor (3.5) can compress and burn directly to Blu-ray or save Blu-ray files to your HDD.
You can choose MPEG or H.264. While H.264 was added after the original spec, and some of the VERY early players may not play them, H.264 looks gorgeous compared to MPEG at the same bitrate.
However, both FCP 7 and compressor 3.5 are extremely limiting in the menu options you can have on your disc. They are the basic necessities and about the minimum they could get away with and still claim BD authoring. It looks like they were targeting studios dailies more than final production discs.
Alternatively you can use Adobe Encore CS3/CS4/CS5. Each version has progressive improvements to the capabilities, including pop-up menus and multi-screen menu systems.
Another alternative is Toast 10.
I really wish Apple would get their act together on Blu-ray - both for mastering AND for playing on the Mac itself. It's no good Steve jobs whining about it - get off the dime Steve and make the Mac play BDs, and get a DVDSP like program for BDs.
I already upgraded to FCP7, but would willing pay double the update cost (or more - much more) to get a GOOD Blu-ray authoring app as part of the Final Cut Suite.

HOW LONG TO BURN BLU RAY VIA COMPRESSOR 3.5?

Does anybody know the ballpaerk figure as to how long a 115 minute FCP 7 project exported to self contained movie and brought into Compressor 3.5 to burn a blu ray disk on an external blu ray writer will take? Is Roxio Toast any faster? Thanks much for your help.

iamfrustrated wrote:
This is getting more interesting by the minute. I have now set the project up as two blu ray DVD's -each around 72 minutes. When I go to 'send to compressor' from fcp 7, if I select HD DVD 90 minutes (assume that is the correct method as there is no 'blu ray' option) and then set Job Action to Blu Ray, I get the message with that nice little yellow triangle warning stating: "Cannot create Blu Ray disc as no target that is either mpeg 2 video elementary stream or H.264 stream". The fcp project in compressor is dolby digital prof. 2.0 and HD H.264 6.75 mbps.
I'm obviously doing something wrong here(?)
The HD DVD presets create files that are usable in DVD Studio Pro for making HD DVD's - not for authoring Blu-ray discs.
Here's what you need to do:
Create a new preset from "H.264 for Blu-ray".
Leave the video format and frame rate set to automatic, but lower the bitrate down to 20 Mbps with a max of 25 Mbps.
Then add a Dolby Digital Audio track as a second target.
Under job action set to create blu-ray disc but save it to the hard drive rather than trying to burn directly. (I know this an annoying extra step but there's been issues reporting with burning Blu-ray/AVCHD discs over 10 minutes in length.)
This will get it onto a single disc and 20 Mbps h.264 will still look pretty good.

How to create Blu-Ray from previous files?

Back in November of 2010 thefifthlion posted a similar question, but the thread was archived so I could not post a follow up in that same thread.
My question is similar: how to create a Blu-Ray from previous Compressor files. His answer was to create a disc image by selecting "Hard Drive" from the Output Device pop up menu. Then use Toast or Disc Utility to burn the copies. Fine, but here's my revised question to that:
Compressor just spent nearly 20 hours compressing a 2+ hour video with "Create Blu-Ray" selected for the When Job Completes. Before it completed the Blu-Ray burner apparently fell asleep or went offline somehow because the computer wouldn't recognize the drive by the time Compressor was done. So I had no choice but to selct "Cancel Burn" and stop the process, restart the computer, and get the Blu-Ray burner back online.
You probably know where I'm going with this. I now have two files on my desktop - the video and the audio file created of the project from Compressor. BUT WHAT CAN I DO WITH THOSE FILES NOW? Needless to say I don't want to go through the entire 20 hour process again - only to have the same thing happen with the burner drive. As per the below paragraph (copied from thefifthlion's original post in November) is this the best way to burn Blu-Rays in Compressor? Always create a disc image rather than burn right away... and then use a third party burner like Toast 10 or Disc Utility to burn the disc? I can't believe Compressor doesn't have an option to open the project again and burn a Blu-Ray straight away.
> Output Device pop-up menu: Use this pop-up menu to choose the device to format to. The pop-up menu displays a list of your system’s suitable output devices, including optical drives and the computer’s hard disk. Each device also includes the words Blu-ray or AVCHD to indicate which type of disc it creates. Choose Hard Drive to create a disk image (.img) file that you can burn to Blu-ray Disc media at a later time using the Disk Utility application (available in the Utilities folder). Other settings may change depending on the device you choose.
Thanks very much for any feedback.
Eric

Follow up question:
I went through the process again (approx 20 hours!! ) and this time made the video a disc image. I don't have Toast (though I think it might be time to get it) but I keep reading that Disc Utility can burn a Blu Ray using that disc image. So, I went through another multi hour process to burn that 20+ gig file onto a Blu Ray, but it appears that it didn't burn it as a playable disc, rather, more like it put the file on the disc as data files. All the info is there, 20 some gigs, I can see all the files, but the disc doesn't play.
Now I apologize if it's a silly question if it's known that you can't make a playable blu ray with Disc Utility, but I don't know either way, that's just what I've read and this is the first time I've tried it.
Soooooooo, if I always make a disc image, should I just get Toast and use that to make the blu ray?
By the way, a brief update: the whole reason this thread came up was because my Pioneer blur ray burner goes offline (sleep) after an hour or so and doesn't come back or wake up. So with a long processing time in Compressor the drive goes offline and then can't burn the disc, so I lose that whole session. Turns out that Pioneer (by their own admission) is not made to be fully compatible with Macs!! In particular Mac Pros. I took that drive out and replaced it with an LG. Haven't tested it yet but I'm looking forward to it.
Eric

"media not present" error when burning blu ray in PE12

I have two systems, both ground-up builds, identical Win 7 Home Premium and Premiere Elements 12 installs. Both systems have internal blu-ray burners. One burner is an ASUS BW-12B1AT and the other is a Pioneer burner (don't recall the model number).
System 1: Intel 4770k with Gigabyte MB
System 2: AMD 8-core with Gigabyte MB
System 1 gives "Media not present" error in PE12 when attempting to burn to blu ray discs using Verbatim discs. System is able to burn DVDs and CDs, and playback blu ray discs. System is also capable of burning blu rays using Nero.
System 2 works fine - blu ray media is recognized instantly by PE12 when in the drive and burns blu rays perfectly.
I swapped the blu ray drives and SATA cables from System 1 and System 2 with the same result - this eliminated the drive manufacturer and cables from being the problem, as both drives worked perfectly in System 2 and neither worked in System 1. I also tried different SATA ports and power supply taps on System 1 without any success.
Then, I noticed that on System 1, with the dialog box open and indicating the "media not present" error, if I ejected the blu ray disc and reinserted it, the burner LED would flash 18 times (approx. 1/sec) and then pulse briefly indicating a burst of activity for about 1 second, as if it was either reading the disc or writing to the SATA. If I pressed the "rescan" button during this brief burst of LED activity, then the disc was recognized and I could proceed to burn it. If I tried to press the rescan button at any time before this instant or after, the "media not present" error did not clear.
To me, this is an indication that something in the handshake timing of the SW and the burner is not correct, and that timing differences in the system HW are not provided for in the SW. I see that many others have had this issue and have had to buy work-around image burners to address this. I believe your burner drivers need to be reworked to eliminate this bug. This is evidenced by the fact that Nero works and your SW does not, and that different systems consistently exhibit this problem.
Please let me know when you will have a SW patch to address this or if you have any idea of system settings that can be adjusted (I don't know of any myself) that would eliminate this problem.

pastrobes
This is not Adobe. Rather user to user. If you want to contact Adobe, your likely route is via Adobe Chat.
If you have a feature request or bug report, then consider filing a Adobe Feature Request Bug Report Forum with Adobe
Adobe - Feature Request/Bug Report Form
The likelihood of an Adobe engineer seeing your thread here is essentially slim to none.
Your results are very interesting but lots more variables to consider.
Do you have any version of Premiere Elements other than 12? It would be interesting to learn if a prior version's burn
dialog would present with the Media Not Preset issue for your burn to Blu-ray System 1. That is easy enough done with a tryout of
11 or 10 or 9 from the following web site. ProDesignTools: Adobe® Developments in Focus
On the other side of the coin, you could give the new version a look in this regard. A new version is expected at the
end of September 2014.
As an aside, have you updated 12 to 12.1 Update, using an opened project's Help Menu/Update. If not, I would encourage
you to do so. It does correct an Expert workspace text styles issue plus other matters undefined by Adobe.
ATR

DVD Studio burning blu-ray

I cant find the thread dealing with this subject although I am sure many people must have raised this issue. I would like to know if Apple finally decided in its new DVD Studio version to add the possibility of authoring in HD and burning blu-rays discs?

As I said, what I want to know is if Apple's DVD Studio Pro will at last decided to offer the solution of burning the authoring made through this application into a Blu-Ray (rather than having to use another application much more simplified and rudimentary).
I know Steve Jobs gambled to fully suppport HD-DVD rather than Blu-Ray and he lost this gamble since HD-DVD is no longer a standard. So I am wondering if the reason why he is dragging his feet to implement Blu-Ray capabilities is that he does not like to loose and will do everything to prevent Apple from integrating the Blu-Ray standard in its applications...

Trying to burn Blu-ray on Power PC G5

Does anyone make a Blu-ray video authoring software program that does not require an Intel processor? I'm trying to use Roxio's Toast 10 with BD/HD Plug-in but is is not working.
I have a Dual 2 GHz PowerPC G5 running OSX 10.5.8 (Leopard) with 10 GB of Ram and Final Cut Studio 2 (Final Cut Pro 6.0.4)
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My Toast 10 now works in burning Blu-ray video. I've learned from other posts that there was a problem when I updated to QuickTime 7.7 in that certain video file types were no longer recognized. Unfortunately you just can't install an earlier version over the newer version the traditional way.
I've learned however that there is a way to install an earlier version of QuickTime (in my case QT 7.6.4 without completely re-loading the Operating System software (Leopard for me).
There's a Shareware program called Pacifist which takes elements from the earlier QuickTime installer and replaces the newer versions problem files. The QuickTime version # still says your current version but the elements have changed. See this link for how to do this:
http://www.digitalrebellion.com/blog/posts/using_pacifist_to_downgrade_quicktime .html
After rebooting, the QuickTime Player (and more importantly Final Cut Pro) supported all the video files. Toast 10 still had a problem until I trashed the Toast plist and pref files in the User>Library>Preferences folder and then re-installed Toast 10.0.9. Now everything works!
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