For the first time, burn a Blu-ray directly within Final Cut Pro 7

Apple might not be ready to add Blu-ray to its computers yet, but prosumers can finally burn their creations directly to the discs (with a 3rd party drive of course) from Final Cut Pro 7. Otherwise, there's also the alternative of burning that HD footage you couldn't bear to squish onto YouTube to a DVD in the AVCHD format, but Macworld notes that beyond a few templates with FCP itself, DVD Studio Pro doesn't support Blu-ray authoring, encoding or burning at all. Of course, video editors probably have one or two other features to concern themselves with so check out the full review, but we'll be busy divining the exact date that "bag of hurt" shows up packed into the next Macbook.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 23rd 2009 11:55AM]

Give theSteve some time. You know it's coming you just don't know when. Santa doesn't come when you're awake.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 23rd 2009 12:40PM]

Some time ? I think 2+ years is plenty of time

[TVGenius Posted Jul 23rd 2009 12:42PM]

I don't think 'burn' is the right word for that headline. It's more like 'export' or 'compress'. Especially seeing as how there is no more standalone Final Cut Pro, it's just the main component of Final Cut Studio now.

It does look like a nice upgrade to Final Cut Pro this time... with some pretty cool new interface things. I'm also looking forward to some of the improvements in Motion.

And I haven't seen anyone mention anywhere yet that LiveType is no longer part of the suite, it seems to now be part of Final Cut Express instead.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 23rd 2009 1:32PM]

Yeah, I don't think it's going to actually format a disk for you. It will just create a compatible transport stream.

The new Blu-ray options for Compressor explicitly talk about third party authoring software. DVD Studio Pro didn't even get a point update. :/

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 24th 2009 1:22PM]

Wait, Livetype is no longer part of FCS? Bummer, I used that program alot >.

[duuuuuuuude Posted Jul 23rd 2009 1:24PM]

finally

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 23rd 2009 3:26PM]

Who cares? Why would an indie movie maker (the only demographic that would be interested in pairing Final Cut with a Blu-ray burner) waste their time with a format that has less than 5% of the movie market? Toss it out as a 720p MP4, wrap it in a Flash Player and drop it on your website. No fuss, no muss, and your audience will be 10,000 times the size of the Blu-ray audience.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 23rd 2009 3:30PM]

In a pinch, you can just use either v9 or v10 of Toast Titanium, which has supported rudimentary BD authoring for a year or two now. Still can't PLAY it on the Mac, but at least there's a workflow.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 23rd 2009 4:41PM]

Have been burning .MTS and .MOV (iMovie) files from my Panasonic AG-150 to BD-R with some half-price blanks that work perfectly (NOT $15). Now Panasonic has released their "Class 10" SD-HC cards & Im trying 2 find where to get them. You might see my 92 million links on yahoo/google/youtube search for ugly george [2 words, no quotes] and you'll get "The Ugly Truth".

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 23rd 2009 6:56PM]

so what?

Adobe Premiere Pro has been doing the same some very long time ago...I believe almost 2 years or something

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 23rd 2009 7:22PM]

yea, except is actually 3 years next month since Sony launched its AR series notebook (even came with premiere) that could capture, edit, export and burn a Blu-ray disc. mine still runs perfect - in fact I'm typing this from it right now! :)

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 24th 2009 3:01AM]

Blu-Ray compatibility on Final Cut? great. Apple, how about bringing BD compatibility to all macs for movie playback????

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 2nd 2009 9:01PM]

For the price of a Mac, you would think there is already a blu-ray in it.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 28th 2009 3:08PM]

If i wanted to export to a blu-ray DVD out of FCP 7, is there a burner that actually would burn to blu-ray?
or can I still not burn a blu-ray DVD from my Mac?