Compressor – Burn Blu-ray with EXISTING H.264 file

[Robert Morgan]

On another forum I saw another approach that seemed to work.

If you still have the batch from your initial DVD burn in your “Completed” tab in Compressor, you can click on the reset arrow in the right hand column of your batch and it will load into the Current tab. When you restart the batch, Compressor recognizes that the coded files are present and will not reprocess them, but rather use them to burn another DVD.

I got this to work when I burned the original DVD from a file rendered from FCPX, such as a Pro-res 422 or other compressed format (rather than sending my FCPS project to Compressor and directly burning from the FCPX project.

However, if I created a DVD by sending my FCPX project to Compressor, and directly making a DVD from FCPX, when I try to reactivate the completed batch, it can’t find the source file. I tried sending my project to compressor from FCPX and also reactivating my prior batch, and then copying (dragging and dropping) the video and audio settings from my reactivated batch. Compressor seemed to simply reuse the audio, but reprocessed the video for two-hours.

So now I’m trying to figure out whether there is a way to similarly re-do a burn that came directly from FCPX to Compressor to DVD, by reactivating the completed batch. But so far, no luck.

[Patrick Mi]

Hi, so I was creating a DUAL LAYER BLU-RAY disc image with a menu, but Compressor gave an error saying it ran out of space, however, my h264 and audio file did get created. It took over 14 hours to get to the point of creating the video and audio file but not the actual disc image. Is there a way to drag the h264 video file and audio file back into compressor to create the disc image with the built in menu? I really don’t want to do a 14 hour render session again.

Any help is appreciated. Thanks.