Burning BluRay discs

Forty percent of my wedding and events videos have been shot and edited in HD. My clients would like the final project on a BluRay disc. I have only been able to produce DVD discs so far. Is there any solution from Apple for this growing problem?

I would check on external FW or USB ones. However, since at present iDVD only outputs VIDEO_TS one can pretty much assume that a direct burn of "professional quality" and connected to an external drive won't produce BlueRay quality. I just wish I could get iDVD to work burning a conventional DVD... But hope is eternal that Apple will address the issue when PCs start coming out with em en masse...
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Not quite sure I understand. All you need to do is re-import the file using Get Media> From Files and folders. Then place the clip on the timeline, add disc menu markers and then Share>To Disc and select the Bluray option, after having added the menu.

Burning bluray disks on Macbook Pro 17"

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http://fastmac.com/blurayext
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Toast can be used to burn blueray disks. http://eshop.macsales.com/articles/howto-burn-bluray-toast
This external blueray burner works on mac with toast. http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Other%20World%20Computing/MRF8BDSD12X/
fastmac should be able to tell you if their burner works with toast.
If your goal is just to play your home movies on your HD TV; I would suggest getting an apple tv instead.

Burning bluray - no Toast

I just bought this external Blu Ray drive (LG BP06) thinking I would have to buy Toast to burn files to a disc. It didn't come with any software (it has a DVD for windows but I never inserted it in my Mac). Surprisingly, it worked just like a regular DVD!!!
I checked the size and all the files are there (23GB out of 25 max). I wonder why everybody says you need Toast and nothing in Lion doc says you can burn BluRay discs.
So I am not marking this as a question since I have no problem, just curious how it works.
Thanks

Burning Bluray data disks have not been a problem on Macs
since the later versions of Snow Leopard. Where the issue
arises is the file system support for burning Blurays as
movie disks playable on commercial Bluray players. Also
may be some other details as well.
This is where software like Toast is required.

A workflow to burn AVCHD camcorder video and 5.1 sound to BluRay disc.

A workflow to burn AVCHD camcorder video and 5.1 sound to BluRay disc.
After weeks searching through many posts by the Forum’s experts with Final Cut Pro and Compressor, I have a crude workflow that seems to work for me, and might be of interest to others. This information I couldn’t find in the Help files of either FCP or Compressor, and would appreciate feedback on other options. Thanks to the Forum contributors who have helped me with suggestions.
I have successfully burned a BluRay DVD of the video and audio outputs of my new Panasonic AVCHD camcorder, that is, 1920x1080 video and 5.1 surround sound, using Final Cut Studio 2 (FCP 7.0.2, Compressor 3.5.4.) on an Intel iMac with OS 10.6.3
Using AUNSOFT-PAVTUBE or CLIPWRAP, I converted the camcorder’s MTS files to ProRes 422 .mov files containing 5.1 six channels of audio.
In FCPro, set the Sequence / Settings / Audio Outputs to 5.1 Monitoring:
     L+R Stereo,     Stereo
     Center             Dual Mono
     LFE                Dual Mono
     Ls +Rs            Stereo
Uncheck the “Downmix…to Stereo” in Warning box that pops up when this step is completed.
Drag the ProRes .mov file into the time line of FCP 7:
The next steps are important for assigning each of the six audio channels to the Dolby 5.1 configuration (L, R, C, Lfe, Ls, Rs). This step was new to me and something I couldn’t find in the FCPro or Compressor Help file manual. If anyone can reference a page number, I would appreciate that info.
In the FCP time line, unlink the video from the audio channels (Linked Selection) in the upper right corner of the FCP time line.
Select each audio channel, then right click in the area of the blank column near the padlock. Assign A1, A2, A3 etc to each of the audio channels as they fit the Dolby configuration ( L+R, C, Lfe, Ls+Rs) This process is kind of clunky and it may take patience to accomplish.
The best Forum ideas that I could find for setting up the six channel audio came from the following posts which I credit for their help:
https://discussions.apple.com/message/9095726#9095726
https://discussions.apple.com/message/12525373#12525373
In FCPro, Mark In and Out points, Select In to Out
Under File / Share option ………Select BluRay job……then Select either “Export” or “Send to Compressor”
(Note: At this point, the Option Export which enables FCPro to burn a BluRay DVD, seems to work well, and the resulting DVD video and six channels of audio seems as good as that produced by the more complicated option of “Send to Compressor”……..which is described below.)
If the Send to Compressor option is selected, Compressor is automatically started by this selection. At this point, do not Quit FCPro, because Compressor needs to transfer file data (or something like that) to Compressor.
In the job pane of Compressor, will exist two targets, H264 for BluRay and Dolby Digital.
I deleted the Dolby Digital and replaced it with Dolby Digital Professional Auto.
Clicking any where in the Sequence 1 job pane (not in H264 nor Dolby target rows) will reveal the A/V attributes:
Under the Job Action tab, select the BluRay unit that will eventually do the burning.
Clicking on the target H264 for BluRay located in the larger Job Pane reveals the settings I chose:
Clicking on the target Dolby Digital Professional (Auto) reveals these settings I chose:
I left settings on the Bitstream tab untouched. However the Preprocessing tab, I set the Compression Preset to “None”.
I found that turning on the BluRay burner with a preloaded BD/RE is best to do at this time, or even better, to energize the burner at the time that the “Send to Compressor” function is activated.
When settings are complete, select “Submit” in the lower corner of the Compressor larger pane and processing will begin, and a status pane indicating time elapsed and time remaining will appear. These estimates are not very accurate.
I have found that my 1 minute test video was initially estimated to require about two hours of processing time, but actually required only 1 hour which is still unusually long. Based on my experience, be prepared for an “overnight” processing to occur for longer movie durations.
This is the part of the overall process I need to understand better: How to estimate the duration to encode and burn 1 minute of video / audio? This 1 hour duration for 1 minute of video/audio was the same whether I SHARE-Exported to FCPro to burn DVD, or SHARE-Send to Compressor option.
Wondering if the encoding of the six 5.1 audio channels caused the lengthy processing(?). Perhaps settings that I made in Compressor affected time to process and burn.
Finally, I hope this poorly written process will help someone who has been looking for the same information as I had been. I would appreciate feedback from those who have already done this; what OS are you using, what hardware are you using? What software package have you tried. And lastly, Thanks to all who contribute to these Community Forums, who take the time to detail their processes. You all have helped me to get this far.
BoBo

Go to https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4719249
BoBo

Compressor Burning Extra AVCHD-BluRay discs without repeating transcoding?

Newbie…using Compressor 3.5.2 to burn AVCHD discs for play on a BluRay player.
Question: Is there any workflow using Compressor saved output files which could be reused later to eliminate repeating the lengthy transcoding (“Submit”) function in order to burn additional AVCHD discs at a later time?
I know how to create an Image file using Compressor along with Disc Utility to produce copies of an original AVCHD disc.
But is there another way to recreate copies without using image files? Is it possible to save the original Compressor Batch file and the xxx.264 & xxx.ac3 files and later reuse these files in Compressor to proceed directly to burning, without going through the long long transcoding all over again?
I’ve searched the Compressor manual, and not sure whether “Droplets” are something that might help?
Like I said at the outset, I’m a novice with Compressor. Hope I expressed clearly what I'm trying to do. Initial transcoding took about 10 hours !
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Russ,
Thanks for responding.
Yes, I have read through that thread numerous times in my attempts to answer my original posted question. I'm not sure I understand all of the terminology and workflows that are discussed by the experts in that long thread.
What was very useful in that thread was the workflow described by "Meg the Dog" to produce an image file from a successful AVCHD BluRay burned disc, and then using "New Image" from Disk Utility. In fact her process has been the only way I can make an AVCHD BluRay copy using an image file.
Making an AVCHD BluRay image file directly from Compressor, and then attempting later to burn a disc from that image file has been unsuccessful for me.
To return to my original post, I was wondering if I could avoid re-transcoding (~10 hours) by reloading the saved batch file and the xxx.264 & xxx.ac3 files into Compressor.
I guess I have to start at the beginning, load again my QT export movie into Compressor, set up the BluRay variables, set Job Action to burn the AVCHD disc upon completion, click on Submit, and walk away for a day!
So far, your response has been the only one. Thanks again.
BoBo

Bluray: plextor drive burning selective discs

Hi,
My plextor PX-LB950SA is able to perfectly burn some BD-RE discs (don't have the type right now). But it wont take some panasonic BD-R (LM-BR24MWE5).
Specs of the BD-R:
1-6x speed
25GB single sided
version1.3*
* Someone can tell me something about Bluray disc versions? Perhaps the drive can only write '1.0' discs and the discs are '1.3'?
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Ruben

Hi,
My plextor PX-LB950SA is able to perfectly burn some BD-RE discs (don't have the type right now). But it wont take some panasonic BD-R (LM-BR24MWE5).
Specs of the BD-R:
1-6x speed
25GB single sided
version1.3*
* Someone can tell me something about Bluray disc versions? Perhaps the drive can only write '1.0' discs and the discs are '1.3'?
BTW: System who's burning is an opensuse desktop. But AFAIK that shouldn't matter, right? If you guys think it could, I can start Arch or Ubuntu with live CD/USB on the machine...
Ruben

Bluray burner ejects disc before avchd burn completed

blu-ray burner ejects disc before avchd burn completed Premiere Elements 12. Any suggestions please.
When I first got the blu-ray burner it worked perfectly with Premier Elements, burning both blu-ray and avchd discs. Now it won't do either
Bug in Premiere Elements I guess, just like the continuing crashing of Elements!? I have to save my work every few seconds to make sure I don't loose any!!!
Al

aljohird
What computer operating system is your Premiere Elements running on?
With your Publish+Share/Disc/AVCHD can you burn to folder successfully for AVCHD on DVD disc?
Just before you were ready to start the burn to AVCHD on DVD disc, In the Quality Area of the burn to AVCHD on DVD, what are the readings for Space Required and Bitrate (with and without a check mark next to "Fit Content To Available Space"?
Please review your Scratch Disk situation (locations and free space at the locations). See Edit Menu/Preferences/Scratch Disks as well as the contents of the project's files/folders in the 12.0 Folder in Libraries/Documents/Premiere Elements (if Windows).
Are you running from a User Account with Administrative Privileges + Run As Administrator?
And have you explored other disc brands as well as types?
More later.
Thank you.
ATR

Comparing video quality of AVCHD BluRay discs using Final Cut Pro Share vs Compressor

Up front, I will admit to being a newbie when it comes to using Final Cut Studio 3 and would appreciate some feedback from the Apple forum experts.
I have spent a lot of time trying to determine how to achieve an optimum group of Compressor 3.5.2 settings so that the playback video quality of an AVCHD BluRay disc is equal to or better than one created by using the simpler auto settings of FCPro Share, version 7.0.2.
When using Compressor’s auto/default maximum settings, I experienced the same error message reported in:
Error MessageDuring Creation of Blu-ray Disc in FCP and Compressor 3.5
https://discussions.apple.com/message/12073794#12073794
I have since made some Compressor AVCHD Discs with smaller bit rate settings and compared video quality with a single FCP Share AVCHD disc. Both seem to be equal in providing a very good video when viewed on my new Panasonic DMP BDT 310 BluRay player. However, the Compressor AVCHD discs show some motion artifacts not present with the FCPro Share version, especially when scrolling text or when objects are moving through the field of view, and visible artifacts are seen from a stationary chain link fence and other lattice work in the background of the video sample.
My sample video used for the comparisons between Compressor and FCP Share discs is a 21 minute duration home movie, originally captured from a mini DV, Canon HV30 1080i camcorder using ProRes HQ encoding(1440x1080), and dragged into FC Pro 7.0.2 timeline where 10 chapter markers have been inserted.
To create an AVCHD disc using FCPro Share, Markers are used to set the IN and OUT points, Select IN to OUT from the timeline, pull down File Menu Share, Select Create BluRay from options in pop out Share pane, and designate output device along with picture files for Background, Logo, and Title options. When these are completed, click on Export. My 21-minute video required almost two hours for encoding including about 10 minutes for burning. This accomplished on an iMac 3.06 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo.
To prepare this same 21-minute video for use with Compressor, I again Select IN to Out from the FCPro timeline, but this time use File Export as a QuickTime Self Contained movie including Chapter markers. Then Open Compressor, choose Create BluRay from Template pane, right click on the down arrow in the Batch window and load the QT self contained movie file. From there I went to the Inspector window and tried various combinations of bit rate settings along with Frame Encoder options such as Better or Best motion parameter controls.
I have tried the following combinations of Bit rate settings along with varying Frame Encoder controls and burned an AVCHD disc for each example:
Example A
Compressor set to 6 Mbps Average and 8Mbps Maximum, Frame Encoder settings OFF. Approximately 4 hours to encode although the time remaining estimator indicated a larger value of ~7 hours; not an accurate estimator at all.
Example B
Compressor set to 6 Mbps Average and 8Mbps Maximum, Frame Encoder settings ON, using “Better (Linear Filter) and Better (Motionadaptive)” settings. Approximately 4 hours to encode, not the 13 hours that were estimated.
Conclusion: Comparing A & B Compressor versions, Disc B showed some improvements in reducing motion artifacts over Disc A.
Example C
Compressor set to 13 Mbps Average and 15 Mbps Maximum, Frame Encoder settings ON, using “Better (Linear Filter) and Better (Motion adaptive)” settings. Multipass checked. DeInterlace was checked. Unknown hours to encode; about 8 hours done overnight..
Conclusion: Disc C showed some minor improvements reducing motion artifacts over Disc B
Example D
Compressor Auto settings,i.e., 15 Mbps Average and 17 Mbps Maximum, Frame Encoder settings ON, using “Better (Linear Filter) and Better (Motion adaptive)” settings. Multipass checked. Approximately 12 hours to encode, done overnight. Inserted disc next morning after the overnight encoding was completed, and a few minutes later an error message pane appeared that the maximum bit rate had been exceeded. This message was consistent with the Apple posted thread referenced above. Unfortunately the long overnight encoding was wasted.
It seemed to me that the best Compressor settings for suppressing the motion artifacts were displayed by the disc burned in Example C, i.e., 13/15 Ave/Max Mbps with“Better” Motion settings in the Frame Encoder.
However, when this disc was compared to the AVCHD Disc burned using the FCPro Share, the latter still seemed much better. I do not know what the auto bit rate values are as set in FC Pro, but for me, the quality is quite good AND the motion artifacts are significantly reduced, especially evident with the scrolling text.
Sorry about this long post, but I thought the detail would be necessary for the experts, and maybe helpful to others trying to get started in this BluRay arena. Did I misuse Compressor? I think the sample video exported as a self contained QT movie was the right thing to do? Not sure where I went wrong.
Thanks in advance for Feedback and Recommendations. For now, I’m going to stay with the simpler process using Final Cut Pro Share function.
BoBo

Thank You, Brad, for responding; glad to hear I'm not the only one having similar Compressor issues.
You may have hit on something. Perhaps Compressor's use of H.264 encoding was the reason for my motion artifacts? And perhaps Final Cut Pro Share retains the 1440x1080 quality as it burns the AVCHD BluRay disc?
I had Toast 10 for less than 30 days a couple of years ago, and was lucky to get a refund.
What version of Toast do you have? Wondering if new Toast 11 has improved previous bugs, especially upgrading its Chapter text, pictures, music. I would go back to Toast if it came close to mirroring DVD Studio Pro, or even iDVD capabilities.
Thanks,
BoBo

No Blue Ray in CS4 Media Encoder or burn to disc in Encore

Hello everyone.
I'm using CS4 on Vista 64 Dual AMD @ 3.0 with 8 gigs memory and 4x WD 750 gig HD's on Raid 1
ATI 4890
I had burned previously several Mpeg2 BluRay discs with menus and now have lost that capability it seems.
I have had some problems in the past and have reloaded Vista 64 as well as this time.
The media enocder just stops nearly imediately after the que with an exclaimation point
on the file attempting either a BluRay 264 or Mpeg2 BluRay conversion from mt2s raw from the camera
file, from the hard drive.
As well, after an edit of mt2s files on the editor and exporting to Encore, setting it all up with a
menu etc. It will rendor a project until its time to write or burn and then I get an error about access
and a code 12 error. I'm using an LG GGW-H20L BlueRay recorder/player. Which has a problem
doing dual layer writing with it's latest firmware installed.
I would like to be able to edit, menu and burn my mt2s files to BluRay however after reading here
and other places recently, it sounds like I need Scenerist or something now to be able to achieve
this goal.
Has something change most recently to take away what I have been doing or what I still can do?
I only make one or two Blue Rays of the same. I'm not into replicating mass quanities of the same.
I would like to have the better picture the AVCHD camera outputs as mt2s files burned onto a Blue Ray
disc. It looks better anyway to me than the Mpeg2 BlueRay files.
Anyone have any ideas?
Gratefully appreicated. Bob.
Regular DVD's look great and work just fine but once in a while, someone wants a BlueRay. Impression is all I can
say about that.

I don't do BluRay... but...
When I want to create a single layer DVD I simply click the Encore icon and work (actually, I go to ISO and use Imgburn to write, for greater control)
When I want to create a dual layer DVD I have found that I MUST right click the Encore icon and select Run as Administrator
This is in spite of the fact that I am the only user of my computer and only have one, Administrator account
This problem appears to be "something" about Win7's rights management (this problem, from my reading, started with Vista)

"device error" at 99% burning bluray content to Phantom burner - any ideas? DVD works

Im am currently investigating PrE 11 after having PrE 5 and leaving out PrE 9 due.
PrE 11 is almost a pleasure to use, but I consistantly fail in checking bluray support.
One major lack of PrE 11 is that it does not allow to burn blurays to disk, wheras this option is available for AVCHD and for DVD - Adobe: why the hell did you do this?
So - I downloaded the Phantom Burner 2.0.0.0 which perfectly runs for DVD and AVCHD burning.
But when I "burn" a bluray on the phantom burner, it consistently fails with "device error" at 99%.
I included menues and removed them just to be sure whether this is the cause.
But: I can burn exactly the same footage as AVCHD in to folders as well as into a disc with phantom burner. Always in 50i 1920x1080.
The only problem exists with bluray - so I am in a deadlock - I cannot test bluray support.
Any ideas?
System: Windows 7 Enterprise, 64 Bit, PrE 11 Trial.
Thanks!

Please don't create two separate threads with virtually the same topic. It makes it very hard to keep up with what has been suggested to you and what you've already tried.
>Adobe: why the hell did you do this?
Also, this is a user to user forum. Please direct any communications for Adobe directly to Adobe the clicking the Contact Adobe button.
Please continue this discussion in your other thread so that we aren't chasing two threads at once. With your permission, I'd like to lock this thread to avoid confusion and cross-talk.

Best settings for bluray disc

I am a total newbie and somewhat confused by the "Share"options.
I have imported my files from my Sony HDR-XR550V camcorder - edited and made into a movie. So now I am ready to burn to a bluray disc.
Would someone be so kind as to tell me what options I should choose in Premiere Elements 8 to make the best quality bluray disc to be viewed on a Sony BDP S570 Bluray player....and what format the end result will be. Thank you very much in advance.

From the Premiere/Encore area, but will tell you what is legal for BluRay
Export Formats http://help.adobe.com/en_US/mediaencoder/cs/using/WS725e431141e7ba651e63e3d1267818bc51-800 0.html
Files & Formats http://help.adobe.com/en_US/encore/cs/using/WS5C9E1CF8-B5BC-436f-89D3-61DDC02A2C47a.html

Compressor: send mutiple jobs to same BluRay disc?

I've made a few AVCHD discs using the new Compressor, but always with one job in the batch at a time. Is it possible to add other jobs to the same batch, each with the "Create BluRay disc" job action, and have them all burn to the same disc? Or will Compressor attempt to burn each one to it's own disc?
JVK

You can put as many jobs in Compressor at once as you want. Only one per Blu Ray, though.
I highly recommend getting Bruce Nazarian's "Fast Path To Blu Ray For The Mac" book. Very inexpensive, will clear the whole Blu Ray thing up for you.

Burning BluRay DVD on a Mac

I just installed PRE 9.0. Is it possible to burn a BluRay DVD on a DVD-R media using PRE 9? In other words, can you burn AVCHD discs using PRE 9? This would be an attractive feature to have rather than investing in a BD burner. Apparently Toast 10 can do this.

Thank you all - this has been helpful.
Reading the DVD FAQ to look for the answer to my question would have been like trying to kill an ant with a cannon. It's a great FAQ, so thanks for the pointer, but I'll have to save that for later.
Here's what I am taking away:
- DVD players can not play Hi-Def video (not surprising, and I wasn't expecting that to be the case)
- Consumer set-top Blu-Ray players can play AVCHD discs (I don't know if all of them do, but I know my Samsung does)
- It is possible to create AVCHD disc on DVD-R media (~20 minute play time) and that disc will play on set-top Blu-Ray player
- PRE-9 can not create such a disc
- Encore CS5 can create such a disc
One last question, in case anyone knows: can I use DVD+R DL media and get double the play time? Would a DL AVCHD disc work?
I would have preferred to create the disc in PRE9 -- much easier to use. I'll now turn my attention to learning Encore instead.

Hi. i have a 1hr wedding video in imovie but it wont let me burn to disc - what are my options please?

Hi. i have a 1hr wedding video in imovie but it wont let me burn to disc - what are my options please?

Hi
Or if in Panic - There are free (but very vey simple) options
No iDVD
If there is no iDVD on Your Mac (and it's not on newer Macs as Apple discarded it) then You need a program that can do this.
Your Mac can burn CDs and DVDs - BUT DVD as Data-DVDs not as Video-DVDs - they need a program to be encoded and STRUCTURED as such.
• Burn - Very simple - Just for doing a plain Video-DVD
Burn http://www.digital-digest.com/software/Burn.html
• Free DVD Creator.app - free from Apple Store - Looks really OK !
Pay program's:
• iDVD is part of the boxed version of iLife'11 and can only be bought outside Apple as on Amazon and e-bay
• DVD Studio pro - Part of FinalCut Studio Pro bundle - this to has expired and can only be bought second handed. (High price and tough learning Curve - but best ever done.)
• Roxio Toast™ - Not as elegant as iDVD - but has many other positive additions (I like it as 10-Pro incl BD-component) (now version 11)
• FinalCut Pro-X which also can burn to DVD but without any nice themes.
AppleMan1958
You can also buy Compressor from Apple for $50 US. It will also create DVD and BluRay but without the nice themes.
Yours Bengt W

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