Burning Blu-ray using Toast on a Mac

[insch]

Does anyone know what frame rate Toast encodes BDs at? I shot an HD film at 25p and I wondered what Toast would do with an uncompressed QT file of it. Ideally I'd like it to encode at 24p or 23.976 fps which would work for European + US markets but there doesn't seem to be any control within Toast. Also what would it do with audio - slow it down by 4%? I also have a 5.1 surround soundtrack but not sure how I would include that within the Toast authoring.

Old question, I know, but I guess no-one has any ideas about how to play BDs on a Mac? I have a La Cie writer but haven't come across any way to play discs yet (other than running Windows on it). Are there any hardware add-ons?

Any help appreciated.

Thanks.

[JadedRaverLA]

Originally Posted by insch

Does anyone know what frame rate Toast encodes BDs at? I shot an HD film at 25p and I wondered what Toast would do with an uncompressed QT file of it. Ideally I'd like it to encode at 24p or 23.976 fps which would work for European + US markets but there doesn't seem to be any control within Toast. Also what would it do with audio - slow it down by 4%? I also have a 5.1 surround soundtrack but not sure how I would include that within the Toast authoring.

I'm afraid I don't know the answer to your question, but I do know that Toast has the ability to perform PAL to NTSC framerate conversion, so it's possible that you can do what you want. However, it would be better to perform the framerate conversion within the editing software and export a 24/1.001fps AVC-encoded file from there, in order to minimize artifacts.

Originally Posted by insch

Old question, I know, but I guess no-one has any ideas about how to play BDs on a Mac? I have a La Cie writer but haven't come across any way to play discs yet (other than running Windows on it). Are there any hardware add-ons?

Any help appreciated.

Thanks.

Simply... no. The issue isn't with hardware, which exists, but with software... which doesn't. At the moment, you'll need to boot into Windows to truly test the compatibility of any discs you create.

[insch]

Thanks. I am currently encoding a 24p QT to work with. Not quite sure if that is actually going to be 23.976 fps though or if Toast will do a further convert.