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You choose whether to burn a Blu-ray disc or an AVCHD disc by your choice in the Output
Device pop-up menu. The setting descriptions below identify which items do not apply
to AVCHD discs.
• Output Device pop-up menu: Use this pop-up menu to choose the device to format to.
The pop-up menu displays a list of your system’s suitable output devices, including
optical drives and the computer’s hard disk. Each device also includes the words Blu-ray
or AVCHD to indicate which type of disc it creates. Choose Hard Drive to create a disk
image (.img) file that you can burn to Blu-ray disc media at a later time using the Disk
Utility application (available in the Utilities folder). Other settings may change depending
on the device you choose.
Important: If a progress indicator appears next to the output device you selected, wait
a moment for the list of available devices to update. This can happen when you eject
or insert a disc or when you turn an optical drive on or off.
Note: If you choose a standard DVD burner, the disc is formatted as an AVCHD disc.
All other devices format the disc as a Blu-ray disc.
• Eject button: Depending on your optical media drive type, click this button to eject
optical media from the drive or open the drive’s media tray.
• Layers pop-up menu: Use this pop-up menu to specify the type of disc you are making.
• Automatic: Use this to have the type of disc you insert to be automatically detected.
You must insert the disc before clicking Burn for Automatic to work. Additionally,
Automatic always creates a single-layer disk image when Hard Drive is selected as
the output device.
• Single-layer: Use this to identify the disc as a single-layer disc. You can use this to
force a dual-layer disc to be treated as a single-layer disc.
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