blu-ray burning software for mac for ASUS SBW-06d2x-u

Same hardware, Compressor burned a Blueray file as a data file to the disc but blue rays could not read, however free trial of ExpressBurn did the job

http://www.nch.com.au/burn/index.html

Good to see another clever person. Yes, the Asus SBW-06D2X-U is the best choice I ever made. I make a living out of Audio and Video Production and although the internal DVD/CD writer is perfect, I needed another external unit.

However, like a new car you can't run it on inferior fuel, so the Asus needs software to make it perfect. You need to invest in Toast 11, don"t go higher than version 11, there are major errors in disc burning. It is not expensive and you will find it the best app. you ever had.

With the Asus I use it for normal CD's, RW-CD's, DVD's, duel layer and RW. All - (minus) R for both CD & DVD. There are advantages with using -R discs and the Asus and other Apple drives but I won't go down that road at this moment. Asus and Blu-ray and Toast. What a meal. What you can't do with this combination is not worth knowing about. Apart from burning normal BR discs, I burn Dual layer and re-writable discs. The thing that I found to be the best with this array is that with re-writable BR discs, you can use the Asus as a external storage device. You can write too and erase data like a hard drive. Spend you money and enjoy your Mac. Just check that Toast 11 will run on your OS.

Enjoy.

Same burner. I tried many different discs.

The only one that worked is:

Sony BD-R 25 GB 1-6x

UPC: 027242689381

Created a image file first (IMG), then burnt it using Finder "Burn disc image"

Feeling a lot of love for you Matt thanks

Roxio Toast 11 says it will burn Blu-ray DVDs on a Mac. I'm sure there are others, try a Google search.

You can burn data disks on BD media directly in the Finder, just like with any other optical media. Drag files or folders to the mounted disk on the desktop, then eject it to burn.

To burn a movie, you need Toast or Compressor.

Matt

According to the Asus website:

Mac OS X has the ability to burn optical discs directly from the finder, I am not sure that it will burn BDXL discs and do not have a BDXL burner to test it on, but I can burn directly from the finder to a 25/50gb Blu-Ray dics using my LG Blu-Ray or Matsushita Blu-Ray burners by doing the following:

Assemble all the files I want to burn to disc into one folder.

Next, control-click on that folder and from the drop down menu choose "Burn "Folder Name" to Disc . . ."

Once I select that, I get prompted to load an appropriate sized blank disc:

I put in a blank disc, it takes a few moments to spin up, then, I get a chance to name the disc and set the burn speed:

I click on burn, and the burn takes place with an automatic verification pass after the burn.

Don't know if you want to risk a BDXL blank testing this out, but it might be worth a shot.

MtD

As far as I know, if you intend to burn movies/video to your disks, you will need Toast or Compressor. Mac OS cannot burn a video to a DVD if you want to use that DVD in a stand alone player to play on your TV.

Actually found that info here:

http://www.bdxlburner.com/tag/mac-os-x/

Can you post back if successful? I've wanted to switch to BDXL for a while, it would be great to hear it works.

Thanks

MtD

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There really only are a handful of apps that can create and burn a true Blu-Ray movie: there is a list of some good ones here including Toast which is probably the most feature packed for BD and BDXL: http://www.burnworld.net/mac-blu-ray-software/

Toast Titanium 11 does support BDXL 100 and 128 disks. You need the optional $20 plug-in to create DVD or Blu-ray video disks.

MtD, I tried your technique, I have OS X Leopard 10.5.8, did exactly what you said to do, received error message stating that my Verbatim BD-R 25GB BluRay disc was too small to burn 19GB of data. I reduced the number of files to 16GB of data, tried your technique again, received same error message: not enough room on disc for 16GB of data. I don't know how you got your OS X to burn "natively" from the OS X desktop, but mine won't work with BluRay discs. BTW, I have an MCE 12x BluRay burner installed on my MacPro G5. Any help would be appreciated but upgradeing to Mountain Lion will not be an option for me.

I think what is important here is that burning DATA to BluRay (to use the BluRay media as a means of backing up, archiving, copying, data files) is not possible with Toast. I have Toast 10 Titanium WITH the BluRay plugin for $19.99 and when I go to burn data files or ISO (image) files, I get nothing but error messages and end up with very expensive BluRay drink coasters. BTW, I'm using Verbatim BD-R 25GB blank media, even trying to use OS X 10.5.8 Leopard is useless as its configured for 4.7GB DVDs, not BluRay media. This is beyond frustrating.