This last week we supercharged our our Macbook Pro (Mid-2012) and seriously could not be more pleased. It took a total of about 35 minutes to swap the old hard drive with a Sandisk Solid State Drive, add in more Crucial RAM to max it out, and swap the optical disc drive with a caddy that holds the old hard drive.
How to Burn a Blu-ray with Adobe Encore and Toast 10 Titanium
Let me start off by saying, you are not alone. DVD production has been the way of the biz for so long, and we know it inside and out. DVD Studio Pro, Toast, even iDVD, no problem! Why can't burning Blu-rays be that easy too? Well, honestly I think it's two-fold. First off, the name Blu-ray is proprietary. They don't even want you putting the Blu-ray logo on your disc if it wasn't burned by Sony. Therefore, they aren't going to make it easy. And secondly, and much more important, the way of the future (and present day) is digital. Obviously.
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Mostly I am writing these posts as a reminder of what I have learned in an effort not to forget. I hope you will get something valuable out of them as well. My brother Ryan had a quote he loved, "A smart man learns for himself but a wise man learns from others." So my friend, be wise and learn from our mistakes and successes!