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Q: Blu-Ray burning error after Final Cut Pro 10.1.2 update.

I upgraded Final Cut Pro X to 10.1.2  I can no longer burn blu-ray.  I get an error message "Either the video file or the audio file were an invalid format".  I get the same message sharing through Final Cut or through Compressor.  Please help!

Posted on Jul 3, 2014 10:43 AM

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  • by t1k,

    t1k t1k Jul 15, 2014 3:33 PM in response to Bill Hotaling
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    Jul 15, 2014 3:33 PM in response to Bill Hotaling

    Im glad you're helping Apple Bill, hopefully it won't be long before they figure this out. Meanwhile I've been testing "simpler" scenarios that should be easy for them to duplicate. Such as the 40min 1440x1920 29.97p clip which successfully created a BD HDD image, while doubling it on the timeline failed (same clip copy n' pasted, now double the length, but failed).

     

    Last night I deleted the pasted 2nd clip and Slowed the original 40min clip by 50% to double its length, and again it failed. 'Either the video file or audio are not in a valid format' Odd, that it liked Sharing the original 40min clip just fine, but when I doubled it or slowed it 50% to make it longer (80mins) it failed.

     

    Re BluRay: My opinion is that it's become an inexpensive format on which to share HD home movies, distribute demo reels, product samples, trainings, etc. Today BluRay players are inexpensive and most facilities with large displays or projectors are equipped with one. Streaming content may be growing in popularity for viewing features and for social media types who typically view from the comfort of their own screen, but I think BluRay offers the advantage of controlling the quality of the viewing (no buffering, bandwidth dependent compression, or artifacts) and is conveniently viewable by larger audiences inexpensively such as BluRay player vrs a computer with wide-band network connection. BluRay may be almost dead for feature distribution, but hardly so for many other useful purposes.

     

    Just my 2 cents.

  • by Daniel Goyette,

    Daniel Goyette Daniel Goyette Jul 15, 2014 11:04 PM in response to t1k
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    Jul 15, 2014 11:04 PM in response to t1k

    TEST 1

     

    Apple OS X 10.9.4 Build 13E28 - Compressor 4.1.2 - Files used is QuickTime 1920X1080i Prores.

    The Blu-ray creation work but if you re-insert the BD-RE disc (Verbatim) the disc refuse to eject.

    You need to shtdown the computer to get the disc to eject because the finder ger unresponsive.

    The MACGO Blu-ray player refuse to play the disc but the disc play in regular Blu-ray players.

    The burner used is LG BD-RE WH.16NS40 and everything is clean install two week ago.

     

    TEST 2

     

    Apple OS X 10.9.4 Build 13E28 - Toast Titanium 11.2  - Files used is QuickTime 1920X1080i Prores.

    The Blu-ray creation work perfectly with the BD-RE disc (Verbatim) reinsert and the disc eject perfectly.

    The MACGO Blu-ray player play the Blu-ray disc perfectly and also any home regular Blu-ray player.

    The burner used is LG BD-RE WH.16NS40 and everything is clean install two week ago.

     

    Conclusion : Since Toast Titanium 11.2 with OS X 10.9.4 work Apple Compressor 4.1.2 is the bug.

                         The disc created with Compressor have make Apple disck utility crash when try eject.

  • by mclarenf1,

    mclarenf1 mclarenf1 Jul 16, 2014 3:29 PM in response to Daniel Goyette
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    Jul 16, 2014 3:29 PM in response to Daniel Goyette

    I have been on the phone with Apple extensively on this (also listening to the nonsense "we've never heard of this issue") and I can tell you for certain that it has nothing to do with Compressor or FCPX but has something to do with Create Disc.  I have exported from FCPX a ProRes file and it failed.  I have "sent to Compressor" and it failed.  I even sent an older Quicktime File (ProRes) to Compressor without touching FCPX and it failed.  By failed I mean it compresses the audio and video just fine but as soon as it launches Create Disc it present the same error everyone is talking about on here.  It does seem to be successful on shorter projects but anything in the 100GB range and it fails.  Just my two cents.  Apple is on it I guess.  While we burn through our money (time).

  • by Ron Bourke,

    Ron Bourke Ron Bourke Jul 16, 2014 4:07 PM in response to mclarenf1
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    Jul 16, 2014 4:07 PM in response to mclarenf1

    I purchased Compressor from the Apple app store and the disc burning functionality is built in (presumably with the Create Disc component you mention).  As such it is a Compressor issue to me.  I don’t use Final cut but am importing QT files directly into Compressor and receiving the same error codes as everyone else.  I have two versions of my 1 hour film – one is 85GB QT and the other is a 10GB MPG4.  The process stalls on either file once the encoding is finished and it’s time to burn the disc.

  • by Studio-k-cine,

    Studio-k-cine Studio-k-cine Jul 17, 2014 11:18 AM in response to MyHobbyPays
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    Jul 17, 2014 11:18 AM in response to MyHobbyPays

    I Have same exact problem , none of the work arround a are working .

     

    I Spoke with Apple tech support , the R N D is aware of the problem and working on it.

     

    I have added adobe cc and cs6 and I am taking proves master to encore for now.

     

    IT suckes , but I have to feed my kids and customers are yelling for their work.

  • by mclarenf1,

    mclarenf1 mclarenf1 Jul 17, 2014 11:22 AM in response to Studio-k-cine
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    Jul 17, 2014 11:22 AM in response to Studio-k-cine

    I have been on the phone every day with Apple.  We created new user.  No go.  Then trashed all files in reference to Compressor and reinstalled it.  No go.  Still the same error.  The tech is NOT getting the same error so it is some conflicting aspect that I have installed or my hardware is different.  The only thing I have that might be weird is two 5870 graphics cards installed in a pair.  I am pretty stock.  It worked before the update.  Don't you just love the updates that work in the background.  Must turn that feature off.

  • by James Cude,

    James Cude James Cude Jul 17, 2014 4:18 PM in response to MyHobbyPays
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    Jul 17, 2014 4:18 PM in response to MyHobbyPays

    If you have Compressor, try this:

     

    1. In Compressor, make a new MPEG2 setting. This should appear in the Custom area.

    2. Go to the General tab, change “Stream usage” to Blu-ray, and name it something.

    3. In FCPX, send to Compressor, and choose the new MPEG2 setting.

    4. From the Audio Formats settings, add AC3.

    5. Click on the job in the batch window, and choose Action When done: Create Blu-ray.

    6. Start Batch.

  • by Tom Wolsky,

    Tom Wolsky Tom Wolsky Jul 17, 2014 4:57 PM in response to James Cude
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    Jul 17, 2014 4:57 PM in response to James Cude

    Why MPEG-2? Why not H264 for Bluray? Or do you think it's the H264 Bluray that's the problem? Most things seem to indicate that it's the disc build.

  • by Studio-k-cine,

    Studio-k-cine Studio-k-cine Jul 17, 2014 6:31 PM in response to mclarenf1
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    Jul 17, 2014 6:31 PM in response to mclarenf1

    I Dont have the 5870 But only One 5770  Card, My computer is As stock as it could be,

    12 core Mac Pro 2012 with 2.4 GhZ and 28 Gb ram

    1 SSD for OS , 2 HDD 3TB each as Raid 0 Nothing else

  • by James Gleason4,

    James Gleason4 James Gleason4 Jul 17, 2014 7:45 PM in response to MyHobbyPays
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    Jul 17, 2014 7:45 PM in response to MyHobbyPays

    Not that this helps, but I'm running FCPX 10.1.2 and just burned another Blu-Ray (to disc) without a hitch. My last two burns were for 45min and 34min. I don't have anything else loaded on this system except the FCPX suite (FCPX, Motion, Compressor), Photoshop and After Effects.

  • by t1k,

    t1k t1k Jul 17, 2014 8:25 PM in response to James Gleason4
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    Jul 17, 2014 8:25 PM in response to James Gleason4

    I think the following briefly summarizes the experiences & observations of most of us using the latest FCPX and/or Compressor on this thread so far:

     

    Project Time:

    Shorter (~45min) seems to burn w/o invalid format error message, moreso than longer (~60mins)

     

    Bad Compressor vrs Bad CreateDisc:

    Undetermined... Is Compressor creating faulty .264 or .ac3 file? Or is CreateDisc mis-diagnosing them?

     

    Compressor Version:

    Latest (4.1.2?) fails Sharing to BluRay or HDD, Older (3.5.3?) Shares to BluRay just fine.

     

    Probable Cause:

    Latest Compressor engine (also bundled within latest FCPX) is creating a .264 or ac3 file that doesn't satisfy CreateDisc.

     

    And I'd like to add that just because I was able to successfully mux the files created by FCPX/Compressor into an m2ts and create a working BluRay (but w/o Chapters) using other authoring programs doesn't mean that they meet whatever specs are required by CreateDisc.

     

    So the mystery remains and I hope Apple's team can swat this bug pretty soon.

  • by James Gleason4,

    James Gleason4 James Gleason4 Jul 17, 2014 10:45 PM in response to MyHobbyPays
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    Jul 17, 2014 10:45 PM in response to MyHobbyPays

    Sorry for the double post, but the forums crashed as I was trying to write this post.

     

    Not that this helps, but I'm running FCPX 10.1.2 and just burned another Blu-Ray (to hard drive) without a hitch. My last three burns were for 57min, 43min and 34min. I don't have anything else loaded on this system except the FCPX suite (FCPX, Motion, Compressor), Photoshop and After Effects. I then burn to Blu-Ray using Toast. I've successfully used FCPX all the way to Blu-Ray, but I prefer using Toast as I can make multiple copies. I don't know why it is working for me, but nothing has broken through my process of updating.

  • by Tom Wolsky,

    Tom Wolsky Tom Wolsky Jul 18, 2014 12:08 AM in response to t1k
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    Jul 18, 2014 12:08 AM in response to t1k

    JJust a side note to this summary

     

    "creating a .264 or ac3 file that doesn't satisfy CreateDisc"

     

    THis isn't likely. If there was a problem with generated files it would likely fail on shorter projects as well.

  • by t1k,

    t1k t1k Jul 18, 2014 12:17 AM in response to James Gleason4
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    Jul 18, 2014 12:17 AM in response to James Gleason4

    We can all burn short-length projects to BluRay from FCPX 10.1.2 and Compressor 4.1.2, but can you successfully burn a BluRay (or HDD image) that's 60-120mins long? If I'm not mistaken, no one in this thread has reported a successful burn over an hour using these current versions of FCPX and/or Compressor.

  • by Tom Wolsky,

    Tom Wolsky Tom Wolsky Jul 18, 2014 12:34 AM in response to t1k
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    Jul 18, 2014 12:34 AM in response to t1k

    TThat's incorrect. There are at least three people who have posted on this thread you have successfully built long form Blu-ray discs.

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