Re: Blu Ray Baby

First suggestion: get one Blu-ray re-writeable disk to test to. It's more expensive than a regular disc, but great for testing. The ordinary discs are not something to waste, but not all that expensive, either. I'm using Philips discs, at just over $1/disc ($35/25 for printables), The BR-RE (re-writeable is under $10).

Two: put the 'encode' part on overnight and don't sit and watch it. If it doesn't encode in 10 hours then there may be a problem, but my suggestion is just let it go until it fails.

Three: supposedly Toast will burn the disk image. I have not tried this, and am only burning individual disks out of Encore. Toast is not worth the $80 for me right now.

Four: Do you need the menus, et al? I submitted a couple films to festivals just burning the ONE file right out of Final Cut. It only works (I think) for a single file, but it works pretty well. In FCP find the Export menu item, then "Share..." and follow the prompts for a BR disc. No Encore, no Toast, no nothing and it worked like a charm for me.

For my latest project I'm doing the full menu thing, but it's mostly for fun and I'm not stressing - the festival already has my 'easy Blu-ray disk' (see last paragraph) with one button to click and 5 seconds of black 'leader'.

Nelson

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