Sometimes people create a movie which is not Self-Contained (known as a Reference Movie). If you choose not to create a Self-Contained movie this leaves more room for error. Making a Self-Contained movie means the file produced is independent to other media stored on hard drive. I would recommend checking the box which says Make Movie Self-Contained, though this is not absolutely necessary. ( 4) Leave the Setting at Current Settings and make sure you Include Audio and Video ( 1) Highlight the Sequence you wish to Export in the Browser of FCP or click within the Timeline of the Sequence you wish to export. If you want to avoid having Final Cut Pro tied up at the same time as the encoding process takes place then follow the instructions below:Įxporting a Self-Contained Movie from Final Cut Pro Note: the above method will tie up both the Batch Monitor of Compressor and Final Cut Pro, meaning you will have to wait for the encoding to finish before you can do any more editing. ( 7) Press the Submit button at the bottom right of the Compressor interface which will send your files to the Batch Monitor where the encoding process will take place. ( 6) Define where this file is to be saved: either source (which means in the same location as the original file, or you can specify the location manually) The audio will then not be included within the H.264 file and you can marry up the AC3 file with the H.264 video file later in DVD Studio Pro. If you wish to work with a separate AC3 audio file (which will help you to conserve space and therefore allow you to get more content onto your DVD) then, in the Inspector, click the H.264 setting and uncheck where it says Include PCM audio. Additionally a second Dolby 2.0 audio file will also be created. An AIFF audio file will be generated along with the H.264 file. This will encode the video files to H.264. ( 5) Click the H.264 for DVD Studio Pro 60 minutes setting - then click All. The setting you need to concern your-self with is the H.264 60 minutes setting (keep in mind you will get about 50 minutes of HD footage onto a 4.7GB DVD-R) ( 4) Click the double-arrows to open up the presets built into Compressor.
( 3) Click the File menu, top left of the FCP interface. ( 2) Check that there are no "in" or "out" points in the Timeline unless you wish to define the area of the Sequence you are going to export ( 1) Highlight the Sequence you wish to Export in the Browser of Final Cut Pro or click within the Timeline of the Sequence you wish to export. If you export direct from Final Cut into Compressor you will not be able to continue editing until the encoding process is complete.Įxporting from Final Cut Pro to Compressor
The advantage of using method 2 is that while Compressor encodes you can carry on editing with Final Cut Pro. ( 2) Export your HD movie from Final Cut Pro, save it to disc, and then import this into Compressor. ( 1) Export direct to Compressor from Final Cut Pro There are two ways you can encode your material in Compressor: In my tests the results one gets using H.264 are vastly superior to MPEG-2. When encoding your material using Compressor options are provided to encode to either H.264 or MPEG-2. While it is possible to encode inside of DVD Studio Pro the only option here is to encode to MPEG-2. I've yet to try DVD+R or dual layer discs.Įncoding via Compressor is the way to encode your material. This applies for both 1920 x 1080 footage and 1280 x 720P. The main difference is that the content is encoded at a higher bit-rate which therefore means you get less time for content on the disc.Įxpect to get just over 50 minutes of HD footage onto DVD-R (type 5). The first thing to understand about the process of creating HD DVDs is that it is remarkably similar to creating Standard Definition DVDs. Let me repeat modern Macs - so far I have achieved this using a 2.5 GHz dual G5 and a Black MacBook. Not sure that talk was true.īut what is true is that it is well and truly possible to make High Definition DVDs onto 4.7 GB DVD-R (type 5) discs which can then be played back on most modern Macs. There was talk that one could take the disc out of DVD-Ram caddy, or record DVD content to CD, and then do something magical with the disc which, if you knew the secret formula, wouldÊ then play in a DVD set-top player. Reminds me of a time before DVD burners were widely available to the public. Now if this were true then we could all get started knocking out HD DVDs straight away and stop waiting for Blu-ray to appear.
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Creating Hi-Def DVDs Using 4.7GB Type 5 DVDsĪccording to legend and rumour it is possible to make High Definition DVDs onto regular 4.7GB DVD-Rs using a Mac with a DVD burner and DVD Studio Pro 4.
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