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Compressor doesn’t understand I have 2 drives
I have an external blu-ray drive hooked up to my iMac, and Compressor has problems recognizing which drive I want to use, the blu-ray or the internal DVD drive. Today when I tried to burn a regular DVD from Compressor and it asked me to insert a DVD it just ignored it. I tried the blu-ray drive and it ejected the DVD. I tried disconnecting the blu-ray drive and then inserting the DVD, and again Compressor ignored it. Similarly when I try to burn blu-rays the blu-ray disc will just sit there in the drive with my progress bar stuck at about 58%. Sometimes it will eventually recognize that the disc is there and start burning, but other times not and I have to start over.
Isn’t there some way to tell Compressor which drive I want to use? I don’t see anything in preferences.
My workaround today is to use Toast to burn the already-created ac3 and m2v files, but I worry that it will not do as good a job with the encoding. Checking now to see if the disc looks ok..
Well it looks ok I guess but I shouldn’t have to do this! -
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Chris,
I don’t count myself an aficionado with Compressor but maybe I can offer my thoughts?
My caveat: I have 5 drives and two servers connected to my system though I rarely burn to DVD or Blu-ray.I duplicate my setting for a client, rename it for a specific purpose and make the necessary adjustments. After which, I choose the “DESTINATIONS” tab in the Settings dialogue and set that destination there, IF I know I will be using this repeatedly.
IF, I need to send it to another destination then I can overwrite this default setting by; after adding the project to the batch dialogue, then your setting to it, right-click the “SOURCE” field. In the drop down, choose “DESTINATION” and then, “OTHER” from the contextual dialogue box. (See attached image)
This is, of course going on the assumption that the setting has not been configured to a DVD/Blu-ray destination to begin with and that I am not talking twaddle.
Either that or you can simply set up a DROPLET on your desktop, therefore bypassing the whole of Compressor’s UI.
HIH,
Lawrence
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