Need help exporting from FCP to Compressor

[Don Greening]

The first version of Compressor will work fine. Hopefully Compressor also came to you with the companion program known as A.Pack. This is the program you use to compress your .aif audio files in to .ac3 (Dolby Digital). If you get stuck with anything I can send you a workflow sheet. With Compressor 2 the audio compressing program is now part of Compressor.

– Don

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Don Greening] “The first version of Compressor will work fine.”

Well, that’s not really true. If it is it’s news to me. Compressor one does not have the multiplexing option built in. What you can try and do, Mark, is use a program called mpeg streamclip (it’s free).

https://www.alfanet.it/squared5/mpegstreamclip.html

I have not tried this particular workflow, but supposedly you can compress your movie in compressor one, leaving you with an m2v file and an aiff file. As long as the files are named exactly the same and in the same folder, save the extension, it will load up both the video and audio at the same time. You can then export it as a muxed transport stream. So, if you have an exported movie called gubbamint.mov and you compress it in compressor, make sure the m2v and audio file are named the same. You should have gubbamint.m2v & gubbamint.aiff. MPEG Streamclip can then read those separate files and spit out one file.

Like I said, I have not used this workflow, but I have used MPEG streamclip to convert transport streams into editable video or unmuxed video and audio for use in DVDSP.

Good luck and happy streamclipping.

Jeremy

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[David Roth weiss]

Oh my God!!! This is really getting far afield now.

Don, I think you need to go back and read the entire thread. Or, please let me know how encoding audio to AC3 gets Mark any closer to his goal of a video file with interleaved audio that he can bring to another facility on a data DVD for further encoding on a system streaming RealVideo?

DRW

[Mark Suszko]

Hm, the price is right;-) I will give this a try and re-visit the thread with a report when I have something substantive to report. meanwhile, any other suggestions are very welcome, I will continue to check this periodically.

You guys rock.

[Don Greening]

You’re right, David. Compressor 1 doesn’t do interleaved audio. I forgot that Mark wanted that as part of the solution. I stand dejected.

– Don

[David Roth weiss]

Please forgive me and don’t feel dejected Don, that was not the point. This is just one of those many Cow incidents that happen all the time in which converstaions go astray. The fact is, everyone is trying to help, so that makes all the frustration worthwhile in the end. But, it can certainly get very frustrating from time to time…

DRW

[Jeremy Garchow]

Woop, found another free one with a tutorial even!

link to tutorial:

https://www.bobhudson.com/BitViceHelper.html

Link to FREE! product:

https://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/10856

Good luck and happy bitvicing.

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G5 Dual 2Ghz <> 4GB RAM <> FCP 5.02 <> Kona 2

ATTO 42XS <> Huge Systems 1.25 TB 4105 Fibre

[Don Greening]

David,

My ‘stand dejected’ thingy was my poor attempt at levity: I stand corrected/dejected. I had read that Mark had wanted interleaved audio but had forgotten that by the time he’d asked about Compressor 1. You and Jeremy pointed this out. My fault.

– Don

[Bret Williams]

You can get 20+ minutes of DV25 material on a DVD. Why not just put full quality DV quicktimes on the DVD. I know you mentioned one “chapter” might be 30 minutes, but find a way. Or if they can reconnect 2 parts. But that alone seems to be your problem. You can 5 minutes of DV25 material into every gig. With 4+ gigs on a standard DVD-R seems like you could take them 3-5 DVD-Rs. Each with 1 or 2 sections on it.

[David Roth weiss]

Good one Bret. I think that’s Mark’s best bet…