hi guys can anyone tell me whats the best Blu-ray drive for Mac im trying to buy one i saw the Lacie and the MCE-Blu-ray for MAC any ideas ????
thank you
Well Zak i downloaded it and listened to it but it not talking about how to make Blu-ray on Mac as its written that should be on 38.22....... i listened the whole 1h 14m and nothing about how to make blu-ray on mac, is there anything else to download ???
sx, the lacy drives are good. However the MAc Video cast has the show producer demo'ing an LG one even though on the box there is nothing to say it supported MAC OS! Hmmm It's interesting how they decided which platform is compatible and what isn't!!!
This guy just pulls the "MAC non-compliant" BLuRay drive out of the box and BINGO! working 100% on his MacBook within seconds! Im sure LACY's the same!
I use x6 LG bluray drive in one of my Mac Pro and it works with Encore now (it didn't before).
I posted somewhere, but the Encore CS3's encoder was really poor quality, so I found that Compressor's encoding with H.264 for bluray encodes a lot better then author in Encore.
Works the best.
I have an LG GGW-H20L Blu-Ray burner connected to my Mac Pro via SATA and the already supplied Molex power supplies.
To connect it all up, you really have 2 options depending on how you want to use it.
Option 1 (Bootcamp and OS X Compatible) - Get a SATA Male to SATA Female cable and connect to one of the 4 HDD bays. Then use the already supplied (with the drive) Molex to SATA Power adapter to power the drive with one of the available Molex power supply.
Option 2 (Only OS X Compatible) - Get a normal SATA cable and connect to one of the 2 extra SATA ports on the motherboard (Behind the front fan, so you will need to take this out to plug it in)(You may also need to get a SATA cable that has a 90 degree bend in one of the connectors to make it fit).
In my case, I used Option 1 because of the fact that it works with Bootcamp and with the supplied software, I can play back Blu-Ray movies on Vista. I also use both Windows (supplied software) and OS X (with Toast 10 Pro) to burn Blu-Ray and everything works a charm. I did find with Toast 9, that it was a little buggy with Blu-Ray for both Data and Video. Toast 10 Pro is best.
Anyways, that is my set up. Criticize if you will, but it works a charm for me.
Here's the blu-ray workflow that I use and it's been perfect every time (50+ masters and counting)...
Source footage doesn't matter... I've done raw video from an XDCAM HD, motion graphics from AE, .mov exports from FCP...
Compress your footage to .m2v using Blu-ray specs. I use Sorenson Squeeze because Compressor's result isn't like by Encore CS4.
Then, bring in the .m2v for Encore and burn. I use an external LaCie d2 Blu-ray drive on the Mac. Flawless performance. If you don't have Sorenson or something else, you can let Encore do the transcoding and still get a decent result.
