Apple Adds Blu-ray Support to Final Cut Studio 3 (sort of)
Apple released Final Cut Studio 3 today and added the ability to burn Blu-ray discs directly from the application, but I have a feeling you still wont be able to actually play it on your Mac. But, I welcome this change and love that if you are an editor you won’t have to go to some third party application or open source tool to output a disc. Here’s the description found from Apple’s site:
Blu-ray disc and DVD burning2
You can now easily burn a Blu-ray disc or a DVD directly from Compressor. Quickly add a menu to your disc by choosing one of the beautiful Apple-designed HD or SD templates included in Compressor. Because Compressor uses an open XML-based template format, you can import third-party or custom templates for a specific look.
It says in the tech specs you can also burn AVCHD discs to red laser DVDs to play back in Blu-ray players, another nice feature.
More info can be found here.
July 29th, 2009 at 4:12 am
Cool yes.. but ONLY 1 Video on a Blu-ray…
July 30th, 2009 at 1:10 am
So many restrictions yet (and no playback of commercial titles !) that I don’t see many people going to make their MAC a BD production tool…
Just a tiny little step forward for Apple, but not enough !