It works exactly like CD and DVD burning: insert a blank disc, and you get a popup (“You have inserted a blank BD.”) asking what you’d like to do with it. It’s much simpler for data discs, since Finder has native support for Blu-ray burning. But using three different tools reminds me of the bad old days of DVD ripping and wastes a lot of time and space, so I’d love to see Mac BlurayRipper Pro or HandBrake incorporate the full functionality of converting a Blu-ray movie to an Apple-device-friendly H.264 MP4 file. The result looks much better than DVD rips, even when sized down to fit within the Apple TV’s maximum supported resolution of 960x540. M4V file for your laptop, iPhone, iPad!, or Apple TV. Pipe Mac BlurayRipper Pro to MakeMKV to HandBrake, and you can convert 1 a movie to a reasonably sized. Mac software support is better than I expected, but still immature. An 18” SATA cable with a right-angle connector on the motherboard end was just long enough. I followed this guide to access the extra SATA ports and this guide to route the cable (steps 1-4 only). Installing it into my 2008 Mac Pro was, fortunately, uneventful after I got the required SATA and Molex-to-SATA-power cables ( previously). At the time of writing, the 50 GB, double-layered discs are still a fairly prohibitive $16 each, but the single-layered 25 GB discs are down to $2-3, making them cheaper per GB than high-quality DVD+R discs - and, most significantly, they store five times as much data than DVDs in each case, sleeve, or whatever you’re keeping them in. But from such large files, even recordable DVDs at 4.7 or 8.5 marketing-GB can’t hold entire events.įortunately, Blu-ray raised the limits by packing 25 GB into each layer. Optical media is excellent for long-term archival storage, especially if you migrate everything to a modern format once or twice per decade. A single wedding can easily result in 15 GB of photos after picking and postprocessing. Our photography (especially now that Tiff’s shooting professionally) generates very large volumes of RAW files from the 5D Mark II, which run about 25 MB each. I added a Blu-ray burner to my computer this week, now that they’ve come down to sane prices and I actually have a use for one. The recording surface of a BD-R disc, a difficult but immensely satisfying photo to take. A programmer, writer, podcaster, geek, and coffee enthusiast.
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