I am trying to burn a blu-ray disc but having problems.

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I am trying to burn a blu-ray disc but having problems.

I used "share" in FCP 7 and output to "hard drive" and I think I successfully made a "disc image" but now when I try to burn it with my new LG interior blu-ray burner using disc utility and having tried 2 different brands of of BD-R (Kodak and Panasonic) the Disc Utility says "the disc inserted does not have enough free space"

The disc image is 21 GB and blank BD-R's I have tried are 25gb and I have burned DVD disk images on to dvd-r's using this device (LG HL-DT-ST BD-RE WH10LS30). I am using 10.6.8 operating system.

My questions would be: Do I need Lion to burn a Blu-Ray disc image? Do I need Toast? What is wrong? Do I need a special driver. I asked OWC (where I bought the drive) and they said I need Toast but I that contradicts what I have read. I am using a Mac Pro 8-core early '08 with 10.6.8

Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)

Posted on Nov 18, 2011 7:45 PM

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Brad Wright2

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Nov 19, 2011 6:52 AM in response to dcannonski

I have an LG Blu-ray recorder from MCETech that doesn't work either. I just tested a Sony Blu-ray recorder (BWU-200S) and it works perfectly with Compressor.

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Nov 19, 2011 8:12 AM in response to dcannonski

I thought you could output directly to the blu-ray drive from within the share function in fcp? Have you tried that?

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dcannonski Author

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Nov 19, 2011 8:33 AM in response to Michael Grenadier

Yes, I did try that and it worked but I mostly want to burn from a disc image. Because I want to save it for future burns. There are instructions for this> burn to hard drive option. It created a .img disk image but the LG will not burn it-I am pretty sure I need Toast do this with the LG.

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Nov 19, 2011 8:38 AM in response to dcannonski

It would have been helpful if you had put this information in your original post. First troubleshooting step is to make sure the hardware is working.

I don't have a blu-ray burner so I'm just guessing about this stuff. But I'll probably be getting one shortly so keep us informed if you make any progress.

When you put a blank blu-ray disk in the drive, does it show up on the desktop, the way a blank dvd shows up when you put in a blank dvd in a dvd burner?

Is there anything in system preferences for the blu-ray burner the way there is for cd's and dvd's?

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dcannonski Author

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Nov 19, 2011 11:42 AM in response to Michael Grenadier

Actually I had not yet tried this when I made my original post, I was hoping to avoid having to re-encode the movie. So yes, it appears that the burner is working and it does burn regular DVD's (not blu-rays) from a disk image using Disk Utility and it does burn blu-rays from final cut 7 using "share to blu-ray drive" but I can't seem to burn an inserted blu-ray disc using just the finder or Disk utility no matter the size of the file I am trying to burn, whether it is a big movie image .img encoded for blu-ray or just a tiny jpeg the Disk Utility immediatly tells me that there in not enough space on the disc. At this point all indications are implying that I need Toast or something like that to burn from a disk image so I am leaning toward biting the bullet and buying toast. I will update this discussion after I do that.

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dcannonski Author

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Nov 19, 2011 11:45 AM in response to Michael Grenadier

p.s.

Yes, when I put a blank blu-ray disk in the drive, it does show up on the desktop, but all attempts to burn any kind of file get the response "there is not enough space on the disk..."

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dcannonski Author

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Nov 21, 2011 12:01 PM in response to dcannonski

I got Toast 11 pro and it worked for burning the .img.

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