Help making DVD

[Walter Biscardi]

[Richard Chenoweth] “I tried to export using settings compression HDV 720p30 and DVD Pro could not recognize this file type.
“

That’s an HD setting. You have an SD project. You simply want to export from your timeline using “Current Settings” and Self Contained Movie.

Take that file into Compressor and use one of the DVD Presets in there to create the MPEG-2 and AC-3 Audio file. I recommend one of the Best Quality presets.

Import that MPEG-2 and AC-3 file into DVDSP to make your DVD.

[Richard Chenoweth] “The manuals both say that DVD Pro will automatically rewrite the import file as MPEG-2 which is what it really wants, right? I have also tried exporting from FCP as h264, which the manual also recommends, and FCP informs me: codec error! “

H.264 does not work for DVDs.

[Richard Chenoweth] “What would be a good basic compression setting in the Sequence Settings in FCP to make a basic DVD in SD and burn it from my MacPro? “

Again, just use one of the presets in Compressor. Much easier.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media
HD and SD Production for Broadcast and Independent Productions.

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[Richard Chenoweth]

Walter,

Thank you for your help and for getting back so quickly!

I will try it this way. But my Sequence Settings have to be set on something… ? I suppose that means
I should have it on “none” compression?

The movie is set-up at:

size: 720 X 480
aspect: NTSC DV 4:3
pixel aspect: NTSC – CCIR/DV (720 X 480)
dominance: lower
compressor: none

So I will take this into Compressor through the FCP export “Compressor Option”…

Thank you again!

Richard

[Eric Pautsch]

Just export through Compressor directly from the timeline. No need to export another file.

[Richard Chenoweth]

Hi Eric and Walter,

Thank you again.

I exported going directly into Compressor. I chose DVD Best Quality 4:3 90 min and everything
looks cool…

When I click “submit” I get this error: “Cannot submit batch, unable to connect to background process”

I got this a lot yesterday, part of the reason I was messed up with this… any more clues?

Many thanks!

Richard

[Richard Chenoweth]

Thanks Dave et all… I will try this too.

When Compressor tells me the error of “can’t connect to background process”

I check my FCP with a command-option-esc and I see that FCP is “not responding”…

Thx for any more advice!

Richard

[Richard Chenoweth]

Hi all,

Perhaps this is the problem… I am using four processors to render an animation and Compressor has
some trouble being a “background process”… I looked up that error msg on web…

Does that sorta make sense?

Richard

[Chuck Reti]

[Richard Chenoweth] “When I click “submit” I get this error: “Cannot submit batch, unable to connect to background process””

This is a very frequently reported problem on the Apple.com forums.
It is the first item listed on the “Troubleshooting” list on the Compressor support site https://www.apple.com/support/compressor/, with a reference to this document:
https://support.apple.com/kb/TA47672?viewlocale=en_US

I’ve tried the solutions suggested, which brought Compressor back to life for one or two uses, then followed again by the “unable to connect” issue.

[Richard Chenoweth]

Thanks everyone…

Compressor problems fixed. The problem was really dumb. I was running FCP 5.0.4 on my new
Intel MacPro. I went to Apple Tech Support and the guy was really surprised it worked at all. So I had
to upgrade to FCS2. Now Compressor works fine and DVDPro works fine. Fairly easy in fact.

Thanks for all your help!

Richard