Need to burn a blu-ray

[jackbennett139]

Hi All!
I've recently been accepted into southampton film festival, and have been asked to supply them with a Blu-ray version of my film. The trouble is I don't know how to burn a blu-ray. I have a macbook pro, use final cut to edit and Idvd to bur my dvds. If anyone has any advice on the best way to go about burning my film onto a blu-ray, I would be eternally grateful!

 

[priitv8]

I am using a HL-DT-ST BH10LS30 in an enclosure and burning with Toast Titanium 11 via HD plugin.

 

[old-wiz]

You need a separate blu-ray drive to burn the disc. Superdrives will neither read nor burn blu-ray.

If it's a one time thing I'd burn to DVD then try to find a friend or a shop that would copy it to blu-ray.

 

[priitv8]

If it's a one time thing I'd burn to DVD then try to find a friend or a shop that would copy it to blu-ray.

You can do it only in AVCHD for a decent HD picture and then bitrate is left for only AC3 sound. You have 10.8Mbps to play with.
http://forum.videohelp.com/threads/284993-Maximum-Bitrate?p=2051464&viewfull=1#post2051464
But long story short - with a Toast and HD plugin, you are able to master a BD disk directly from video clips with basic menu and also burn a externally mastered BDMV folder to disk.

 

[mykem]

YouTube is a great place to start to learn any application you're not familiar with.

If you're burning the BRD from FCPX, I'd do search on YT or you can watch this:

http://youtu.be/kENO5FxOLLY

And obviously as others have pointed out you will need an external BRD writer like this one:

http://www.amazon.com/LaCie-Blu-Ray-Optical-Drive-9000281/dp/B009LJM6HG/ref=zg_bs_1292123011_1

And congratulations!

 

[Millionaire2K]

I use this player/writer:

Samsung Player

 

[mbp150]

you can also replace the superdrive with a Panasonic UJ-267 Blu-Ray player/burner and use Toast Titanium 11 with the HD app

 

[johnnymicheal91]

You need a Blu-ray burner, and a blank Blu-ray disc(25GB or 50GB) according to your requirements. Below are the tutorial just for your reference: http://blog.bluray-player-software.com/how-to-make-a-blu-ray-disc-on-mac-with-se-506ab/