I just bought a Blu-ray and DVD burner from OWC. When I select Blu-ray/AVCHD in Final Cut as the output and the burner as the tool for a burn, FCP appears to process the burn and then says it was successful. But the disk is still blank! I get the same result with a DVD. What am I not doing right?
With thanks for your help!
Duncan
Mac Studio
You seem to be doing everything right.
If you choose Device: Hard Drive, does it create a disk image file (with extension .img)?
If so, then perhaps you can use that to burn an actual disk in the Finder. That is what I always did back when I used DVD... it allows for testing before actually burning a disc, and also to make multiple copies without reexporting. I have never used BluRay.
You seem to be doing everything right.
If you choose Device: Hard Drive, does it create a disk image file (with extension .img)?
If so, then perhaps you can use that to burn an actual disk in the Finder. That is what I always did back when I used DVD... it allows for testing before actually burning a disc, and also to make multiple copies without reexporting. I have never used BluRay.
Luis, thanks a million! Plus a million more! I created both a Blu-ray file and a DVD file on the Hard Drive instead of on the burner, then asked it to burn them. And it did!
Then I discovered that a reason it wouldn't burn before was that the "Layers" setting was set to "Double Layer". By setting it to "Single Layer" it will now burn a Blu-ray directly to the burner.
But your idea of first putting a file on your desktop for quicker burning instead of going through the full FCP export process each time, makes a lot of sense.
Luis, I am very grateful for your direction that put me on the course to a solution. Thank you. Duncan
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