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You can not burn Blu-ray streaming HD video on a mac with Toast 7, since there currently is no support!
You can NOT do it in Toast 8 either!!!
We just purchased a Lacie D2 Blu-ray burner and got Toast 7 with it for Mac. Since we primarily produce Video Content using Final Cut Pro, we intended to use it on one of our powermacs. However as it turned out, the Toast software for Mac only allows you to use Blu-ray for storage purposes in data mode.
This is fairly easy to do on a PC though. However on Lacies AND Roxios homepages you will easily be mislead into thinking the Burner as well as software supports BDAV burning.
Lacie: "Burn up to 4 hours of HD video on a Blu-ray disc without quality loss and then share it with your customers or send your high-quality master for replication". - apparently doesnt apply to mac, although they in their mac support for the drive write:
How much video can fit on a Blu-ray disc?
As with DVD, this depends on the usage of video bandwidth, the number of audio tracks and other authoring criteria. Furthermore, the choice of the video compression format also impacts playback time. On average, a 25GB Blu-ray disc can hold 135 minutes of HD video using MPEG-2 compression format plus 2 hours of bonus material in standard definition quality or 10 hours of standard definition video. A 50GB Blu-ray disc can store approximately 3 hours of HD video plus 9 hours of standard definition bonus material. Using any of the advanced video compression format, these numbers can be significantly increased.
On Roxios page advertising Toast 8, mysteriosly the same magic happends:
"Blu-ray Disc Support: Burn up to 50 GB - 12,500 music tracks, or 50,000 photos, or 4 hours of raw HD video"
It should say "4 hours of raw HD video IN DATA FORMAT" or whatever...
We have of course reported this text to the government as it is misleading and false. However, I am satisfied if noone else falls for this scam, by reading this post
This post has been edited by clauslee: 29 September 2007 - 07:24 AM
