CAUTION: Apple Final Cut Pro (Mac) 10.8 No Longer Supports DVD Burning

Posted on June 22, 2024 by Larry

Hidden at the bottom of the latest release notes for the 10.8 update to Final Cut Pro is this innocuous phrase: “Removes support for disc burning.”

This means that, starting with this version, you will no longer be able to burn DVDs directly using Final Cut.

NOTE: While Compressor still encodes files for DVD and Blu-ray Disc using the MPEG-2 presets, it no longer burns them. For that, you would need a third-party application; like Roxio Toast.

Over the years, fewer and fewer people created DVDs using FCP. Given that Apple is always watching the market to figure out what features are necessary, they likely decided that there weren’t enough people burning DVDs to continue supporting this function.

HOWEVER, if burning DVDs are important to you, Apple and Corel, the developer of Roxio Toast, have teamed up to provide a 50% discount to Toast 20 Pro, which is optimized for the latest Mac hardware and is full of pro-level options.

Link: https://www.roxio.com/en/products/toast/pro/?promo=EUXG

This discount is good for a several weeks, but won’t last forever.

Key DVD features in Toast 20 Pro include:

Optimized for macOS Sonoma and Apple-silicon Macs
Burn CDs, DVDs and Blu-ray Discs, with appropriate hardware
Create custom chapters and menus
Customize icons, backgrounds, and other options

However, Toast 20 Pro has extensive features that go far beyond DVD burning. This link has all the details.

I’ve used Roxio Toast in the past and found it to be useful and fully supported by Corel. Even better, it is available for purchase, not subscription.

And saving 50% for software you own is always good.

NOTE: I don’t make any money if you buy through these links, but this special offer was not promoted elsewhere so I wanted to let you know.

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20 Responses to CAUTION: Apple Final Cut Pro (Mac) 10.8 No Longer Supports DVD Burning

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Richard Hale says:

June 24, 2024 at 8:18 am

Image files burned from the Finder outside of FCP would have to be supported or even Steve Jobs would turn over in his grave..
Keith Woolford says:

June 25, 2024 at 4:26 am

Mmm, would just updating FCP and leaving Compressor as is, be an answer to burning future disks?
Larry Jordan says:

June 25, 2024 at 4:41 am

Not really. They generally need to be in sync.

It’s generally better to grab an older computer like a Mac mini and use that for earlier versions.

Thanks,

Larry
Constance Marie Beutel says:

June 25, 2024 at 11:11 am

Thank you Larry. I have a client who needs a DVD and this responds nicely to that need. And, you couldn’t be more timely as I have a project for them that’s due this week.
Constance
Larry Jordan says:

June 25, 2024 at 3:00 pm

Yay!

Happy to help.

Larry
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Caesar Darias says:

July 1, 2024 at 6:14 am

About three years ago, Best Buy stopped selling Blu-rays and DVDs. I saw a small display earlier this year at one store. They must have stumbled onto some inventory of old titles at the back of some warehouse. I thought it was ridiculous that they were charging premium prices… I like discs because the quality of the image is so much better than TV/streaming. And I learn from the extras and director and crew commentaries. Watching movies on some streaming services and TVs look very unnatural. People seem to glide on the screen… I wonder is clients of wedding videographers, for example, still ask for discs. I would put this decision by Apple under the category of Unnecessary. It was there, bothering no one and not causing any problems.. And some people benefited from it’s availability.
Barry Wallack says:

August 8, 2024 at 5:27 am

The removal of DVD burning was plain stupid. It was not like they had to do anything to maintain it. the functionality was in the code. JUST LEAVE IT THERE.
Ryan says:

August 9, 2024 at 1:06 pm

I tried the new Roxio Toast 20 since Apple removed the dvd creation from Compressor (thanks, Apple!) and had such a terrible time with the software crawling, crashing, not functioning as expected – hair tearing out-ness. I finally found this and darn, if it don’t just do what you need it to: Yuhan DVD Creator / Yuhan Blu-ray Creator https://yuhanmedia.com
Larry Jordan says:

August 9, 2024 at 1:32 pm

Ryan:

Thanks for this tip.

Larry