To this day, I still have not made an audio DVD. I would still have purchased Toast, but if I knew ahead of time about this audio DVD limitation, I would have avoided having my "expectation bubble" burst. Burning thousands of iTune songs to CD and reimporting them is not an option. I wish Toast would add fine print stating something like "Toast will not burn songs that were downloaded with iTunes". The only songs I could burn to DVD via Toast were those that I imported to iTunes from CDs, which only amount to about 10% of my iTunes songs. I was really disappointed when I tried to import songs from iTunes to Toast and Toast wouldn't let me burn a disc because they were "protected". When you see big movie rental places like Netflex offering download (although not HD by any stretch) Apple may genuinely feel that Blu-Ray video only has a lifespan of a couple of years at most.As much as I love Toast for all my DVD burning functions, one of my reasons for purchasing it was to make audio DVDs. A piecemeal solution may be problematic for Apple.īlu-ray players still seem to have a very small market penetration compared to HDTVs. It's also possible that Apple is working out some parts of this issue with Snow Leopard and that the upgrade from Final Cut Studio 2 to 3 (including DVDStudioPro) is tied to functions in that OS. Obviously Toast shows that burning discs is not an issue. I don't doubt that Apple's mulling over how to handle this is a big part of the delay. Of course I don't see how that should prevent Apple from developing a means of Blu-ray burning in DVDStudioPro as well as playback of non copy protected discs. Some have even said that the reason Vista is such a nightmare is at least, in part, due to its support of Blu-ray playback. Commercial Blu-ray disc copy protection would mean a MAJOR change in the OS. I do understand that Blu-ray playback on the Mac is a legitimate problem for Apple. Strange how Roxio can do it buut Apple themselves can't. What a shame I can't make my own template to use inside the program. Though I shoot weddings and they don't have a wedding template I could get away with it for a few months. Toast 10 with the BD plugin works extremely well and gives an excellent image. Not being able to burn a blu-ray dvd out of DVDSP is frannkly a very poor show. It's just not good enough when they have over 1 million registered users of FCP who use their software on an almost daily basis. Some good varied templates and an increase in the ability to make some decent menues would help this sell by the bucket load.Īpple have dragged their feet for the past year with blu-ray, hoping it will go away and making feeble excuses like " a bag full of hurt" etc. FCP users are being starved of a way to make Blu-ray DVD, and Roxio have in their hands the chance to expand this product and fill the niche. Roxio could really push this and make some money while Apple is dilly dallying. I'm starting to see where this is a matter of taste and that there is no real "best way". I like the look of 1080 30P with the shutter OFF compared to with the shutter on. I haven't shot any footage in 1080 60i yet, but I think I'm going to try it next. But to me it doesn't have that "real" look that you get when shooting interlaced. Some people would argue it looks more like film and I would agree. Shooting 1080 30P and especially when shooting with a 1/60th shutter, you can see the individual frames. OFF TOPIC: I'm starting to notice a couple of things about the "look" of the footage I've shot. But if you just want a quick way to get your project off your system and still retain good quality, for $99 (plus the $20 BD plug-in) this is a good solution. Now we just have to get more people to buy Blu-Ray players so I can start distributing projects on Blu-Ray.ĭon't get me wrong, Toast 10 isn't the answer if you want custom designed, professional looking menus. This is sure a lot quicker and easier than transcoding to SD for standard DVD's. (I chose Splash) It encodes the video very fast, and I used Best quality. Toast 10 automatically creates simplistic menus and buttons, but you can choose from 16 different menu styles. The best part was that I was able to burn to a standard DVD-R and my cheap Sony BDP-300 Blu-Ray player was able to play the disc without a hitch! Cool! (i have upgraded it to the latest firmware) I purchased a LG model #BE06LU11 Blu-Ray Recorder/Player because it burns at 6x speedīasically everything went without a hitch! I was able to drag both XDCAM EX QuickTime movies (imported off the SxS card using XDCAM Transfer) and movies I rendered in AfterEffects CS3 in ProRes 422 HQ. Just thought I'd post my success with using Toast 10 for burning Blu-Ray discs.
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