Problem burning QT movie to Blu-Ray

I usually use Toast default settings the make Blu-ray discs with no problems.

This might help you so you don't have to make Blu-ray discs and then find out it's no good. Toast has a video player that will let you play the encoded Blu-ray file on the Mac.

You need to make a disc image in Toast of the video footage instead of burning a disc. You can use this image disc to burn the Blu-ray disc. After you make the image disc, mount it on the desktop.

From Toast...

Menu... Extras... 'Toast Video Player' from the Drop down menu...

From the Video Player menu... Open...

Navigate to the mounted disc...

(I can't remember the folder that the encode file is in, pick the largest folder size and that will have the file in it.)

Pick the encoded file and it will play in the Video Player.

This will save you on Blu-ray discs if you have a bad encoding.

Also, this will save you on Blu-ray discs. A 4.5GB DVD can hold about 20 to 30 minutes of high-def Blu-ray video, and a dual-layer 8.5GB disc can hold up to 45 minutes. The DVD will play on a Blu-ray player.

Ben,

I have had a similar problem using Final Cut Express. Did you ever find a workable solution.

Thanks.

Have you tried burning the bluray from directly within fcp7. File: Share.

You need to make a disc image in Toast of the video footage instead of burning a disc. You can use this image disc to burn the Blu-ray disc. After you make the image disc, mount it on the desktop.

From Toast...

Menu... Extras... 'Toast Video Player' from the Drop down menu...

Is a ".toast" file also a disc image file ?

My goal is to preview the final result from Toast 12 before burning a Blu-ray. However, when steer "Roxio Video Player" to my ".toast" file, it is dimmed out, and cannot be selected.

I'm wondering if, "Roxio Video Player", is looking for some type of file other than the ".toast" file, and what that file type might be, and how I get it.

In Toast 12, if I choose, "Save Disk Image" I get a .toast file.

Double click your .toast file.

Double click the BDMV file.

In the stream file you will see m2ts streams.The quantity of m2ts streams will depend on how many items you have in your menu.

Double click on the m2ts streams, the MB sizes not the KB sizes, and they will be played in Toast Video Player.

You will not be able to check any Chapter Markers that you have set up in say iMovie or FCP but they will be there when you play your disc on a Blu-ray player if you set up Automatic in Toast.

Burn to a BD-RE first if you want to be sure, then to a BR-R.

Double click your .toast file.

I then get a "container", (the icon looks like a flash drive). Inside, is a BDMV file, and a "Certificate" folder (with empty folders inside).

Double click the BDMV file.

When I do this, QuickTime 10.3 automatically launches I then get a pop-up that says "cannot open". ( I also have QuickTime 7 Pro.)

I should have said that I have Toast 10 versus your Toast 12, but I would be surprised if this is causing the difference that we see.

What happens if you control click on the BDMV folder and select Open?

If I control click>Open or double click on the BDMV this is what I get.

I am using QuickTime 10.0 so your 10.3 may be causing the difference or you have an additional app to me that is overriding Toast Video Player when you double click the BDMV folder, just guessing.

Would be interested to know if Control Click>Open gives you access to the m2ts streams as shown above.

I ONLY get a "container", (the icon looks like a flash drive). Inside, is a BDMV file, and a "Certificate" folder (with empty folders inside). Nothing else.

I have purchased, Mac Bluray Player, from Macgo.

There seems to be no method of accessing and testing the Chapter Settings. Checking the menu structure and performance is 99% of the testing requirement. One can actually "see" the movie using QuickTime anyway.

As a comparison, if I create a movie image file using iDVD, I can then fully test the DVD image file using apples “DVD Player”. With DVD Player, I can fully and completely simulate the final result without ever burning a disk. Once the disc “checks out”, I will then burn the disc. If mistakes were made, I can go back and correct them without wasting any blank DVDs. This type of capability is much needed in the Apple world with regard to Blu-ray discs.

Thanks for getting back.

Still a mystery why you can't get access to the m2ts streams from the BDMV files .

This might work, Try control clicking on the BDMV file and choosing show package contents if that's available.