"Formatting Failed - Building was not successful. See log."

Give a bit more info about your workflow - what are your settings/easy setup, what format, are you going thro Compressor or straight to DVDSP?

What computer are you using? What versions of the software?
What OS?

Hi:

You are ending your movie inside DVDSP what would work fine but IMHO have some disadvantages: you have not too much control of your encoding settings, you cannot encode your audio to Dolby and building/format take too long what distract from the authoring process.

Encode your movie first using Compressor. For your 40 min movie you can start using the standard DVD 90 min High Quality preset and encode your movie to get MPEG2 video and AC3 (Dolby) audio. Then replace the original QT movie in your track with these files and try building again.

If you have some authoring errors you'll find out this very fast and can solve it without the need to wait that DVDSP encode the movie.

Hope that helps !


Alberto

Good answer, Alberto!

Hi:

Encoding from inside FCP through Compressor ussually takes longer but you get the most of the quality, in particular if your movie contains graphics elements and heavy effects (like color corrections). If not, you can use Export > Quicktime Movie same settings (self contained is my favorite flavor) and use that file in Compressor as stand alone app. It will take shorter for sure and probably you'll get the same quality.

Try it.

Hope that helps !


Alberto

You're wellcome!

Read this recent post in Compressor forum about "FCP Export Using... vs. stand-alone Compressor":

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1086232&tstart=0

Hope that helps !


Alberto