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

BTW, I have an MCE 12x BluRay burner installed on my MacPro G5.

Do you mean a PowerMac G5? If it's actually a Mac Pro, then it can't have a PowerPC G5 CPU, it would be Intel.

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.

That is an incorrect statement. I've been using Toast Titanium to burn data (and video) Blu-ray disks since December of 2008 when I purchased my first Blu-ray drive. We took all of our archived work off of about 130 CDs and DVDs and got it down to four 50 GB Blu-ray disks. All further archiving have been done on the same size Blu-ray disks.

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

Hmm. I've used Panasonic, Verbatim and Sony disks with my LG GGW-H20L drive and Toast Titanium. All work without issue. I've never ended up with a skeet.

Unfortunately, I can't guess why you'd be having trouble with the same software, and likely the same disks. How old is the drive you're using? Are there any firmware updates for it? The drive I'm using is kind of old now and unlikely to see any more updates, but I did apply three firmware updates to it as they were released. Each update improved the speed of the drive and which types of disks it would recognize and use. I'm not sure if this older drive could burn or read 100 or 128 GB disks. Probably not.

MacPro G5 (Model MacPro 1,1) This is a 2007 vintage Mac

Two dual core xeon processors (4 cores total) running at 2.66GHz

10GB 667MHz DDR2 FB-DIMM RAM

NVidia GeForce 8800GT PCIe x16 512MB

OS X 10.5.8 Leopard

MCE 12x BluRay burner (internal)

Quicktime 7.7

1TB boot drive

1.5TB secondary drive

18TB of external drive storage

Been working on Macs and PC's since the 1980's, been editing videos professionally since 1981.

I am not a neophyte.

Last time I looked it looked like an Intel Processor to me... then again maybe I'm wrong.

The MCE 12x drive is two years old, it has the last firmware update available from the manufacturer.

I've read online where someone said that I could downgrade QT 7.7 to 7.6 and that when 7.6 was upgraded to 7.7 that it caused Toast 10 to no longer burn BluRay data discs. They provided a link to where I could, if I wanted, downgrade my QT version to an earlier version without reinstalling the OS and they said it worked fine.

I have not tried that.

From your response, it sounds like you think I got my facts screwed up about my system, or the Toast software.

Not.

If you go to this link, you can read what I've been going through with the help of another Mac professional with no joy as the end result.

http://forums.support.roxio.com/topic/88758-toast-10-titanium-does-not-burn-to-b lu-ray-media/

Like I said there, this isn't rocket science... I have all the minimum requirements necessary for Toast 10 Titanium to function correctly but it doesn't. How you got yours to work is a mystery but I am not the only one who has had issues with the disc burning app.

Addendum: I am editing videos using FCP 7x, Final Cut Suite HD,

Aja Kona LHe HD video editing I/O

It was recommended MCE's 12x BluRay burner (at that time) was the best choice for burning BluRays using Apple Compressor. Now that I'm trying to perform data archiving to BluRay, Toast 10 Titanium creates unusable BluRay discs.

I am not a neophyte.

Didn't say you were, or even suggested such a thing. It was a question for clarity. The answer is no, you do not have a G5 anything. G5 stands for "5th Generation" PowerPC. Since you clearly have a Mac Pro with dual Intel Xeon CPUs, then it cannot be a G5 in any sense of the term.

From your response, it sounds like you think I got my facts screwed up about my system, or the Toast software.

My statements are accurate.

How you got yours to work is a mystery but I am not the only one who has had issues with the disc burning app.

As I said, I can't explain why you're having so many issues. I've used Toast Titanium 9 and 11 to burn Blu-ray disks without a single bad burn in a bit over four and a half years.

It was recommended MCE's 12x BluRay burner (at that time)

Can't say it would be any different, but lately, Adobe recommends Panasonic drives. The brand may not actually be Panasonic, just so the mechanism is.

Thanks for all the help, I appreciate it.

I don't know if Roxio has a demo copy of Toast 11 you could try, but it might be worth a shot. I didn't buy version 10 as it got an awful lot of bad press for being buggy. I also tend to skip versions since each upgrade doesn't tend to add much.

Something else to consider is purchasing one or two rewritable Blu-ray disks. I used to do my testing on "burn once" blanks, but got tired of throwing those away really fast. Now I use disks I can erase and use again when I just want to see color or something on a video before I burn the client's final disks. Might at least be useful to have disks you can reuse while you're trying to fix the problem instead of creating a lot of coasters.

Don't have tried Roxio, and I have download another software from CNET

http://download.cnet.com/Leawo-Blu-ray-Creator/3000-18554_4-75744582.html

I am impressed by the high qualtiy of burned discs although the speed is not fast.

I just bought this and some blu ray discs at microcenter as well......when I plug in my drive nothing comes up? Is this normal? Isn't it supposed to recognize the drive?

I don't know what "this" refers to, but if you have a Mac-compatible drive, the Finder should see it when you insert a blank disk. Nothing will happen if there's no disk in the drive.

Matt

Toast 10 Titanium WORKS.

I have a MacBook Air mid 2012.

Toast Titanium 10.0.9

Verbatim BD-R-DL 50GB (3 packs)

Samsung Burner SE-506

Just burned 30k pictures in 3 discs. Not a single problem.

I tried to get the finder method to work with no avail. I am only trying to burn a data disk. I am using a 25gb 6x Memorex disk but the finder keeps telling me that there is not enough room. I have checked the folder and have brought it down from about 24.8 gb to 23.75gb and it still tells me that there is not enough room. My copy of toast 8 will burn a folder full fo stuff onto these disks that weigh in at 24.9 gb but the finder can't or won't do this. Do you have any ideas? Oh. I want to stop using Toast because it is slow and eats resources AND it won't preserve labels in maverickes. I was hoping that the finer would preserve them.

I am looking for solid Blu-Ray burn software also as I have had increasingly unstable performance from Toast. I am up-to-date on all SW and permissions etc. I am running on a very minimally configured mini as the machine is a dedicated disc burner. I generally burn DVDs but have begun to have unstable performance irrespective of what brand of disc. Things started getting shaky for me after I upgraded to Mavericks and I wonder if there is something at work there.

I also burn across the network which I can imagine adds some uphill to the equation but it has worked for years this way until recently.

I would say your performing this function over a network worked in the past but u were lucky u had no problems. I am not familiar with Mavericks but performing BluRay burns over that network is not a good idea because of network traffic can be heavy, packets of data going back and forth, ur Mini caching data and its buss send/receive data from that network, the BluRay app, HDD cache, system cache, and if there is a holdup of data during that burn, things can get hosed up. I'd suggest keeping burns local to ur immediate network or on ur platform directly.

Thanks but the whole point of a network is to have access to data that you would be inconvenienced in having to sneakernet.

I have literally Terabytes of data that needs to be archived in ~15-20GB chunks.

I can't easily detach the storage and waddle over to another machine to burn discs.

Burning locally is a no-go as the data(photos) need to be on the local machine for processing.

So what is a solution for archiving large amounts of data anyway?

Well after getting b*tch-slapped like that I guess any input or suggestions I or anyone else makes would be a waste of time. We're here, you're there, how are we to know your physical situation. I have over 20 terabytes of data to worry about myself dude, you're on your own Tex. Good luck, I don't have time to throw out ideas only to get slapped for even offering help.