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how to get LG BE14NU40 Blue Ray Burner to work with FCP X or Compressor??
MacBook Pro, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.4)
What exactly is the problem? Does the burner show up in System Profiler?
Also check that you have enough free space on your boot drive.
I run the movie short (12 minutes) thru Compressor using Pro Res 422, Blue Ray Disc. I think my settings are fine. It takes about 6 - 7 hours. At the end, there's a message on Compressor that it's been "successful." For whatever reason, the Burner has turned itself off sometime during the Compressor process. I take out the disk and try to play it on my Blue Ray player connected to my TV (it's different than the LG Burner). Nothing plays and I assume there's nothing on the Blue Ray disk. Just purchased the LG Burner from Best Buy and there's no indication on the box that it works with a MacBook Pro which isn't the retina model. The reviews of this model on LG are varied - a few say it works with MacBook Pro out of the box, some refer to Roxia Toast??
Try to create a disk image (set output to hard drive) and burn that with Roxio Toast.
It's been more than a year and a half since the original post and I was wondering if the problems of compatibility with the LG BR burner have been solved. This is an extremely popular burner and I just bought one along with Compressor 4.1 to burn blu-ray discs. Everything went fine until the file was encoded and it was time to actually burn the disc and the whole process stopped cold. I got hunting on the forum and found this post. Is there a reasonable work around instead of buying yet another piece of software to do what Compressor is advertised to do?
iMac late 2013 i7 16GB RAM
LG BE14NU40
Also, if the LG BD burner doesn't work with Compressor, has anyone had luck with any other burner? I really don't feel like ordering another random burner which ends up having the same problem. Any successes out there? I bought Compressor since it is advertised as a Blu-ray solution. There must be a way to actually burn a disc without going to yet another program. - Thanks!
Hello Ron,
First up, you don't have to use Compressor to burn a Bluray Disc.
FCP X can do this with it's own built-in software. Compressor of course can do the job.
In my experience some burners work and some don't.
I use an the older version of this burner:
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Other+World+Computing/MR3F8BDSD16/
It works fine with Mac.
Al
Thanks for the hint. I’ll check it out. I use Avid Media Composer but am using Compressor to encode and burn.
how to get lg BE14NU40 blue ray burner to work with fcp or compressor
