Blu-ray

I have a wedding video and the client wants a Blu-ray Disc of it. It's the only request I've had, so I don't have the equipment/software, yet. Is there a service that burns blu-ray?

Donw, you do have the software, assuming you have FCS; see an earlier strand. You need a burner. The Samsung Samsung SE-506AB works well with Macs and costs less than $100.

Dennis Couzin
Berlin, Germany

I've been using Adobe Encore to create Blu-rays. It gives you more control over menus and suchlike (it's very similar to DVD Studio Pro) and one really nice feature I only discovered yesterday is that it's really easy to make Blu-rays and DVDs from the same project.

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What burner are you using, Jon?

Another great thing about the Adobe Suite that it will work on the PC or Mac.
(We only have FCP on the Mac, and Adobe Suite on the PC)
So, we use FCP to edit,export a QT ProRes.
Import the QT to Premiere,
use Adode Link to Encore- and burn a blu-ray there.




Jon Chappell Wrote:
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> I've been using Adobe Encore to create Blu-rays.
> It gives you more control over menus and suchlike
> (it's very similar to DVD Studio Pro) and one
> really nice feature I only discovered yesterday is
> that it's really easy to make Blu-rays and DVDs
> from the same project.

Another vote for Encore. I had a project where the client wanted 6 BluRays and 1 DVD of the same footage. I got all the way to the end of the edit in FCP7 and forgot that I couldn't create a menu for my BluRays in DVDSP so Encore saved my butt. Very flexible program.

FCP 7.0.3, PPro CS5.5, MPro Octo 2.8, 16 gigs RAM, Matrox MXO2, Sony EX1

My first BluRay was over a year ago and was completed under the gun. Nevertheless I lucked out-- exported the 90-minute program native and fed it to Toast Platinum 11 for a rough-and-ready BR disc. Took 3 times longer than a DVD, but worked well. For more elaborate discs Encore looks to be the recipe.

I installed a PIONEER BDR-206D for this purpose, cost $120.00 at MicroCenter.

I did have to modify the tray lip by 1/8 of an inch-- discovered this easily snaps off and on. Ground down carefully on a Dremel router table it was then installed and clears the tray opening smoothly. It has never left the Mac Pro since.

- Loren

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