A whopping 650Mb of computer data can be backed up on a CD‑ROM disc for around a fiver, and you can also make an audio CD with the same machine - if you have the right software. Already, your hard disks are full of data, and opticals for backups are not particularly cheap - so a CD‑writer could do a lot for you. You probably already have a suitable computer, and maybe you also have a digital audio card for it. Like many studio owners, you may have started to notice some great deals on CD writers and software at around half the price they were this time last year you might be wondering whether you could now take the plunge into making your own CDs. Mike Collins explains the benefits and takes you through the burning process using two popular software packages. Note: My plan is to mount this when needed and then stream it to my PS3 using Universal Media Server (a fork of PS3 Media Server).Īny help would be greatly appreciated.Now that CD writers and well‑specified CD‑burning software are becoming more affordable, you might like to think about the advantages DIY CDs could bring to your studio. How can I create a disc image using it that can be mounted? Can I do this using Toast or do I need some other software? Is this a BDMV or AVCHD (or both?!?) file/folder?Ģ. The file size showed as less than 10GB, which tells me there is a significant loss of data doing this - not acceptable, although it's actually irrelevant since I don't have a bluray burner.ġ. I also tried checking to see what would happen if I tried to burn it as a bluray disc. I need to mount this as a single disc, not 40 of them! I've tried doing this through both the BDMV and Bluray selections in the dropdown menu, both with the same result. toast files of 1.7GB, which is completely useless.

I've tried opening up the BDMV file using Toast and I'm able to see the video files, but when I try to make a disc image I end up with 40+. I'm trying to create a disc image that can be mounted, whether using Toast or (ideally) Disc Utility on my computer (Macbook Pro). I don't know enough about these formats to figure it out.

mts files in a subfolder (STREAM), which is why also think it might be an AVCHD file. When I open up BDMV I am able to find multiple. The files I have are a file called BDMV (no file extension) and folder called CERTIFICATE, which when fooling around with Toast I've decided must have been created as a BDMV using Toast or some other similar program. I have a copy of a demo disc that appears to be either a BDMV folder or AVCHD that I'd like to make a disc image out of.

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