external blu-ray burner drives for Macintosh

[SilentNight]

Hi all,

I have some projects I have exported out of Final Cut Pro and have purchased the add-on for Toast 9 which allows me to burn HD onto single and duel layer discs. I would also like to be able to burn larger projects onto blu-ray.

Beings I have a Macbook Pro as well as a Power Mac I would rather get an external blu-ray drive so I can use it on both machines. Any suggestions other than the way overpriced Lacie external?

I found this one on ebay but cannot find any reviews or info on it.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...#ht_2778wt_976

[CAB]

I use http://fastmac.com/blurayext with Toast. The 4x is down to 299.00 now that the 6x is available. Quiet, fast, no problems.

[SilentNight]

Originally Posted by CAB

I use http://fastmac.com/blurayext with Toast. The 4x is down to 299.00 now that the 6x is available. Quiet, fast, no problems.

I'm curious, I don't need to watch Blu-Ray movies or anything like that. Do I still need to get BootCamp and PowerDVD for my Macintosh computers? I would like to put my projects that I have exported out of Final Cut Pro in quicktime ProRes and burn them onto blu-ray and keeping the footage in 1080i instead of the compression that idvd and DVDStudioPro require.

I love the Toast 9 Titanium add-on that allows for burning HD stuff that will only play on a Blu-Ray player and have been burning all my projects that fit onto single DVD5 and duel layer DVD9 discs in 1080i but there are still a few that are quite long that I cannot do that with.

Would these external drives be as easy as plug and play in that I am immediately ready to burn onto a 25 gb or 50 gb disc?

[CAB]

I don't watch movies either. Plugged it in and it's instantly usable by Toast and Adobe stuff. I need to do the math and see if the 6x is even worth it. 6x BD is probably more than USB can handle.

Edit: Oops didn't answer completely. No need for the player software and yes it'll do dual layer.

[McBain]

Originally Posted by SilentNight

Hi all,

I have some projects I have exported out of Final Cut Pro and have purchased the add-on for Toast 9 which allows me to burn HD onto single and duel layer discs. I would also like to be able to burn larger projects onto blu-ray.

Beings I have a Macbook Pro as well as a Power Mac I would rather get an external blu-ray drive so I can use it on both machines. Any suggestions other than the way overpriced Lacie external?

I found this one on ebay but cannot find any reviews or info on it.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...#ht_2778wt_976

Tray: http://www.digistor.com/Digistor-Ext...2&category=841

Slot: http://www.digistor.com/Digistor-Ext...2&category=841

[SilentNight]

Originally Posted by McBain

Tray: http://www.digistor.com/Digistor-Ext...2&category=841

Slot: http://www.digistor.com/Digistor-Ext...2&category=841

those look great. A bit pricy but I guess that is to be expected for this kind of thing early on in Blu-Ray's life span. My first DVD-writing drive I bought was around $150 years ago.