[Lee Faulkner]

I’m using it!!

I think it’s awesome …. makes me feel very confident, though I haven’t had to use it in anger yet. Of course I’ve done a couple of test restores .. all worked as expected.

I also tried it backing up to (fast) NAS … ( which FCP X can’t edit off) and it seemed to be fine.

Buy it!

Lee

[Lee Faulkner]

Here’s 3 ways to do what you want.

1: First ingest the footage to FCP 7. Edit it. Then go to the File/Share menu. The Share pane opens with a DVD preset. Click on it and change it to BluRay. Check the ‘Create DVD” box. (now you can click the “i” button to adjust Menu Options if you want. Click the Execute button. Insert a blank DVD-R. Done

I have managed 45 minutes on a single layer DVD. I don’t know if this method works with Dual Layer DVD’s. I tried once and it failed… might have been a bad disk though.

2: From FCP 7 File/Send To/ Compressor. Here you’ll have to create a new “AVC HD for BluRay” Preset. (Apple to don’t provide one … that’s S Jobs making sure the BluRay is a “bag of Hurt”). Click the + button at the top of the Settings Pane. Choose “H264 for BluRay”. In the options window that pops up switch the Stream Usage to AVCHD (it’s set to BluRay). Save the preset. Now drag it to your sequence in Compressor.
Now make another Preset and choose “Dolby Digital Professional”. Save it and drag iot to the Compressor sequence. (the video preset won’t have any audio…). Submit the job. This will create 2 files
1: sequence.h264
2: sequence audio.ac3
I din’t think DVD-SP can burn these to disk ( haven’t had time to try very hard) but I use Toast 10 … choose the Video Tab, select the BluRay Video option and drop the 2 files from compressor in there. Burn. Done.

3:In FCP do a File/Export/Quicktime Movie (using Current Settings) open Toast 10 and just drop the QT movie in there as described above. Select the Menu options (pretty garish menus Im afraid) and Burn. Toast will do all the rest.

When trouble strikes one of these methods has always worked for me… so far.

Best

Lee