Hi Guys, Thankyou for your help. Further to Alan's( Cambridge Video) reply I advise having gone to the suggested site which brought up MCE products. Of note on this site was a highlighted Product Update viz. "The latest version of Final Cut Studio has the ability to burn Blu-ray discs directly from Final Cut Pro 7 and Compressor 3.5 using MCE Technologies' internal and external Blu-ray recordable drives! " Best wishes, Ian Tucker On Sun, Oct 3rd, 2010 at 11:20 PM, Alan <ma501guy at aol.com> wrote: > It remains a surprise and disappointment that for licensing reasons ALONE, > Apple has not provided direct support > for blu-ray burning....I have a Mac Pro and use an amazing Sony EX1 > digital 3 chip camcorder, and to have to dumb > down a project just to fit onto a regular dvd is tragic! BUT there are > solutions, and although Final Cut Pro and DVD Studio > Pro both support to some degree blu-ray burning, you can always get a 3rd > party blu-ray burner that WILL work on your mac! > I have an LG internal burner that was designed for use in a PC, but it > works perfectly fine using Toast Titanium 10 for the Mac. > The software is specifically designed to burn DVD's in blu-ray on a Mac. > I've had great success doing so on projects that I want' to > preserve in the highest format, and few times I have clients willing to > pay the premium price for that option. > IF you do a google search for dv pro, blu-ray, user group, you'll find > even more info. > There is a company that provides 3rd party support for such products, > www.powerbook1.com, and they feature on their home page this exact > capability, or you can use an external via firewire or usb 2.0, but they > are expensive compared to what I purchased at a local Best Buy store, > the LG blu-ray internal burner, for $200 US. > good luck > Alan > Cambridge Video > > On Oct 3, 2010, at 1:38 AM, carlian at chariot.net.au wrote: > > > > > I have an Intel Mac with 2x2.66 Duo Core and 7Gb of RAM. I use the > latest version of FCP and > > save my projects to SD DVD discs. I take my videos on a Sony HDV > Handycam and preset FCP > > to Apple Pro Res 422 LT. I save my PAL projects in QT using current > settings, prior to processing > > in a SD format in Compressor. I use either DVD Studio Pro or Toast 10 > to produce a DVD. > > > > It seems a pity to start with an HD prroject, but end up with a SD > product. Although FCP studio > > allows for Blu Ray editing, Apple does not have available a Blu Ray > Burner/Reader. I assume that > > if I had an external Blu Ray Burner I would be able to produce Blu Ray > discs on my Mac. > > > > Could fellow Listers please advise me the best way to go about producing > a Blu Ray product ie. the > > name/s of good Blu Ray burners, brands of Blu Ray media used as well as > codecs used etc. > > > > Regards, > > Ian Tucker. > > Adelaide, > > South Australia > > _______________________________________________ > > MacDV mailing list > > MacDV at listserver.themacintoshguy.com > > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/macdv > > _______________________________________________ > MacDV mailing list > MacDV at listserver.themacintoshguy.com > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/macdv > > >