[keb1]

Hi

After 30 minutes using Toast 10.0.6 it says it's only at 12% completed and the time remaining (it says 9:07) never is accurate - could be another 3 hours before finished (based on previous 2 BD-R burns), and then it takes another 30 minutes to "verify" the disc.

Using Verbatim media which is 4x write speed, but this continually says it's burning at 1x. Takes over 4 hours to burn 23GB on a 25GB Verbatim BD-R disc in my MCE TECH 8x Bluray internal burner on my early 2008 MAC PRO. Surely it should take about 20-30 min, not over 4 hours to burn to a 25GB BD-R...help please.

Thanks

K

PS I wish I could change the title to the post - it's over 4 hours, not 2.

This post has been edited by keb1: 26 February 2010 - 04:37 PM

[Eric JP]

Same situation here: MCE 8x BD drive, 4x BD-R DL, it starts out writing at 4x but then after a while it slows down to 1x and then takes forever. Burning a 50GB BD-R DL took more than 4 hours.

[firenhancer]

Write speed is more dependant on media and burner. Are you burning a data disc or authoring a Bluray disc? If authoring, the lenght of the video is relevant and the the size. Rendering, authoring and burning is depandant on lot of factors like processor, ram, disc space, video hardware, type of source.

Try saving the project as disc image and see if it takes the same time. If possible check with the drive mfg for firmware update to be able to burn at respective media speed.

[keb1]

Write speed is more dependant on media and burner. Are you burning a data disc or authoring a Bluray disc? If authoring, the lenght of the video is relevant and the the size. Rendering, authoring and burning is depandant on lot of factors like processor, ram, disc space, video hardware, type of source.

Try saving the project as disc image and see if it takes the same time. If possible check with the drive mfg for firmware update to be able to burn at respective media speed.

Thanks for the thoughts - I was burning folders and files to the bluray and it took over 4 hours per disc - 3 of the. Then I tried (I'm insane) to burn a video via Compressor and it went on for 3 hours and didn't actually burn or do anything, the disc is not even written on...this drive has no firmware update according to MCE and they will replace it for me with one that they say will work with Verbatim...so I'm hoping this is the case.

Is the disc image always the way to go anyway - should I burn a disc image first out of Toast then copy that to a data Bluray...I take it one doesn't do a disc image except for data discs?

I use MAC PRO 3.1 8GB RAM...should not take long to burn a bluray? How long should I expect using Verbatim 25 GB 4x speed? Should I always just do 2x speed as that's safer?

Thanks

[firenhancer]

Thanks for the thoughts - I was burning folders and files to the bluray and it took over 4 hours per disc - 3 of the. Then I tried (I'm insane) to burn a video via Compressor and it went on for 3 hours and didn't actually burn or do anything, the disc is not even written on...this drive has no firmware update according to MCE and they will replace it for me with one that they say will work with Verbatim...so I'm hoping this is the case.

Is the disc image always the way to go anyway - should I burn a disc image first out of Toast then copy that to a data Bluray...I take it one doesn't do a disc image except for data discs?

I use MAC PRO 3.1 8GB RAM...should not take long to burn a bluray? How long should I expect using Verbatim 25 GB 4x speed? Should I always just do 2x speed as that's safer?

Thanks

It definitely should not take 4hours to burn 25gb of data while rendering video time sounds reasonable. A typical DVD spec limits menu video title to 99, I'm uncertain for Bluray spec. The reason it is a good idea to prefer disc image over directly burning to disc to prevent coasters and speed up the overall authoring process reducing actual burn time. While it is not necessary to burn at slower speeds with modern burners, it ma be a step involved if you encounter burn issues.

[Eric JP]

Just want to add to what I wrote earlier, since I'm experiencing the same situation:

I have a Mac Pro (2008 3,1) with internal MCE 8x Blu-ray drive, and trying to burn a folder containing lots of photos onto a Verbatim BD-R DL (50 GB) disc. I've tried fixing the write speed to 4x as well as using "best", but get similar results.

The burn starts out fine saying 25 minutes remaining, current write speed 4x. Then after a few minutes, the write speed drops to 1x and the remaining countdown slows down to a standstill. It does, however, seem to be writing VERY slowly, for the whole process does complete after 4 hours or so. When this actually happens is not consistent -- sometimes at around 30% completed, and most recently, after 13% completed.

I haven't written to a disc image first, but I'm not sure if that would even work since my folder will span multiple BD-R discs.

FWIW, burning the BD-R DL from the Finder works fine.