bardolator said:
I have a mid-2012 MacBook Pro (no blu ray). I’m willing to buy a blu ray burner for this project, but am looking for advice on a good model. Suggestions? Please forgive me if I’m not asking in the right place; I’ll do so once I find it, if this isn’t it.

There is a forum for technical questions that would probably give you some better results, but in the meantime: I have an iMac that I’m using, and I got an external USB Samsung TSST SE-506CB/RSWD blu-ray burner that works great so far. It cost me under a hundred dollars.