Making a Blu Ray from FCP7

Hi there
So I'm still a little confused as to my workflow for being able to make Blu Ray DVD's. There seems to be different opinions through the forums I have read. I want to be able to offer people Blu Rays instead of DVD's. It seems that I cannot do this through DVDSP (although a lot of the posts I have read about it seem to be quite old so maybe they have found a way now)
I have a Mac OS X 10.6.8
I use FCP7
I uses the 120min DVD best in Compressor usually
I use DVD Studio Pro to make my menu and burn to DVD
I shoot HDV 1440x1080 using a Sony V1E
My Question: What do I need to buy and set up to make a Blu Ray?
From what I have read it looks like a Blu Ray Burner like 'Pioneer or LG' I think I would rather an external one rather than mucking around trying to fit it externally and the it looks like I have to use Encore to make it instead of DVD SP. But if this is the case then what do I export my movie as out of FCP7 and then how do I get it onto the Blu Ray?
Thanks so much for any help out there :-)
Mich

Hi G, I have done the similar steps but without making the self-contained movie first: i.e. I used "share" in FCP 7 and output to "hard drive" and I think I successfully made a "disc image" but now when I try to burn it with my new LG interior blu-ray burner using disc utility it (disc utility) and having tried 2 different brands of of BD-R (Kodak and Panasonic) the Disc Utility says "the disc inserted does not have enough free space"
The disc image is 21 GB and blank BD-R's I have tried are 25gb and I have burned DVD disk images on to dvd-r's using this device (LG HL-DT-ST BD-RE WH10LS30). I am using 10.6.8 operating system.
My questions would be: Do I need Lion to burn a Blu-Ray disc image? Do I need Toast? What is wrong? Do I need a special driver. I asked OWC (where I bought the drive) and they said I need Toast but I that contradicts what I have read. I am using a Mac Pro 8-core early '08 with 10.6.8

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