People say only Toast and Encore are the only games in town for Blu-Ray burning, and both have issues. But has anyone tried Leawo Blu-ray Creator for Mac? I'm shocked that there are so few Blu-Ray burning programs for Mac on the market and why won't Apple add Blu-Ray support to iDVD? I don't understand.
-Nate
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
Apple considers that Blu-ray and standard DVD are obsolete technologies.
This is why Blu-ray burners have never been incorporated in Macs and why iDVD has not been updated for the past 5 years and is no longer supplied with new Macs.
As part of this policy Apple is phasing out all DVD burners in its new Macs.
FCP X can burn Blu-ray discs provided you have a third party Blu-ray burner, though it only provides a very basic menu.
More useful for many is FCP X's ability to burn AVCHD discs provided your Mac still has a standard Superdrive burner.
AVCHD discs can be burned on cheap (15 pence) DVDs but have to be played back in a Blu-ray player.
They give quality virtually identical to Blu-ray but you are limited to projects of 40 minutes at the highest quality setting.
I didn't know you could burn AVCHD discs from FCPX. But you don't get a real menu do you? I think Leawo does menus. And as much as I Ioved what Steve Jobs was trying to do, the fact is people buy DVDs and Blu-Rays every day. I need a way I can burn a full movie and some extras on a single Blu-Ray or DVD. I hope someone at Apple does decide to give us new DVD/Blu-Ray software. A single upgrade to iDVD would enable Blu-Ray burning.
-Nate
Nathyn Masters wrote:
But you don't get a real menu do you?
You do get menus but it's very simple stuff.
Nathyn Masters wrote:
I hope someone at Apple does decide to give us new DVD/Blu-Ray software. A single upgrade to iDVD would enable Blu-Ray burning.
Don't hold your breath on that one. That decision is made. And Blu-Ray licensing costs are far too high.
mishmumken wrote:
You do get menus but it's very simple stuff.
Menus?
More than one?
Am I missing something?
I thought there was only one simple (watch it or don't) menu with FCP X.
Are there more?
Andy
andynick wrote:
Are there more?
There are five or six different ones. And I believe you can even change the background pictures. 😝
As for SUBmenus .... well ....
Someone sugguested another Blu-ray Creator software in one of the other threads. I'm going to download the freebie. Anyone using these "off brand" softwares. And why is none of this stuff in the app store?
-Nate
WTH? There's no "Mac" version. They're targeting Apple customers but not including a Mac version. How does that work?
-Nate
I just purchased Blu-ray Creator and it will not let me back up my hardcopy Blu-ray onto my hard drive...infact all it seems to be able to do is take dvd's or Blu-ray movies off your hardrive and burn a copy into Blu-ray.You have to buy another software program that lets you backup a hard copy Blu-ray disk on to your hardrive for $45 on top of the $25 i just spent ... i could have bought Toast for $44!!!!!. I have a Samsung SE-506 BD writer and Macbook 10.7.5.
I'm going to write a sternly worded letter to so someone!!!
Leawo Blu-ray Creator for Mac...Does it work?
