Blu-ray sharing and playing

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Blu-ray sharing and playing

If I use the FCP Share option and an external Blu-ray burner, can I...

1. play back the Blu-ray disc using my Mac Pro and 30 inch Cinema Display?

2. include a slide-show?

3. include more than one project?

Mac Pro4,1, MacBook Pro5,2/iMac7,1, Mac OS X (10.5.6)

Posted on Dec 25, 2009 10:12 AM

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Answer 1

David S.

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Dec 25, 2009 10:35 AM in response to cjd1234

Macs are unable to play back blu ray discs.

You can encode still image to a movie file, and then create a blu encoded movie.

Not certain about encoding two projects to one disc using Compressor/Share.

But this is easily possible in Toast 9/10.

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Answer 2

cjd1234 Author

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Dec 25, 2009 11:36 AM in response to David S.

Just to be clear... I cannot watch the Blu-ray disc on my Mac even if I play it on an external Blu-ray player?

But I can probably play directly to the Cinema Display, correct? It's HD. So it must be just like playing a BD disc on an HD TV?

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Answer 3

Nick Holmes

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Dec 25, 2009 6:51 PM in response to cjd1234

But I can probably play directly to the Cinema Display, correct?

Provided that your Blu-Ray player has the correct connection or an adapter for a Cinema Display, it might work. Some (all) BR players use DRM over the HDMI output. If your display has a DVI connection, you could be out of luck.

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Answer 4

David S.

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Dec 26, 2009 9:23 AM in response to cjd1234

I don't know of any Cinema Displays that have HDMI input

If your blu ray player as DVI-D, maybe.

But then there is a question of sound.

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