Blu-ray burner for MBP

[Marlin]

I'v recorded HDV for the first time and want to burn some Blu-ray disks, but have some questions on how to proceed. I will use FCP7 or Compressor to send files to Toast, as that seems the way to go. MBP 2.6 GHZ 4GB RAM.

1)Will I encounter issues with 2 eSATA ports one the Scratch disk the other for the burner.
2) Can anyone recommend a decent burner as most of the reviews I'v read are not very clear.

Thanks very much

 

[tri3limited]

You can burn straight from compressor otherwise. Worth bearing in mind HDV isn't recognised as full hd but I can sort of understand the desire for blu-ray.

 

[2jaded2care]

Have used the LaCie external Blu-Ray burner with the (then-bundled) Toast 9.

The burner works well I guess, but I haven't used any others so I have no comparison.

The Toast software has been a pain. I know they're up to Toast 10 by now, but I think there's still a problem with the menus displaying properly on some of the newer Sony and LG Blu-Ray players. Instead of the packaged menu template with nice background and button graphics, the display shows a black background and only the button highlight/outline:

http://forums.support.roxio.com/index.php?showtopic=46145

The encoded video looks good, but without functional menus all I can do is enable auto-play and forget about any slideshows. Not cool.

 

[Marlin]

Thanks very much. I think we will have the issue of what players will play a Blu-ray disk for quite awhile, just like -r +r etc. the disgusting licensing question. Note the new FCS release is still 2 not 3 and $300 less. I think that means we have to do work arounds until FCS 3 is released with a new authoring program. I saw this review on Ken Stone's site

http://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/owc_mercury_blu-ray_burner_saraceno.html

Thanks