Creating AVCHD Disc: How do you burn the .264 and .ac3 files from Compressor?

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Ian R. Brown Author

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Creating AVCHD Disc: How do you burn the .264 and .ac3 files from Compressor?

I have used a home made preset in Compressor to create a .264 and .ac3 file.

If I drop them into Toast 11 with the BD Plugin, I am able to burn a perfect AVCHD Disc.

However, I don't want to use Toast.

I would like to make an AVCHD disc using Disk Utility or some other Apple app.

Is this possible or can these 2 files only be burned with a third party app?

Note that I am fully aware I can burn an AVCHD Disc straight from FCP X, but that way I can't use my home made Compressor preset.

iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8), Little knowledge... many opinions.

Posted on Jan 21, 2013 10:13 AM

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Russ H

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Jan 21, 2013 10:27 AM in response to Ian R. Brown

Ian,

Have you tried just burning it directly from compressor using your custom preset? Or do you prefer to do this from a disk image? I would expect either way to work.

Russ

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Ian R. Brown Author

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Jan 21, 2013 10:48 AM in response to Russ H

I can put a movie in Compressor, add the video and audio presets and then select "Create BD/AVCHD Disc" in the Job Action menu but that will only create one disc.

My idea was to save the .264 and .ac3 files so that I could burn another disc at a later date.

I can do this with Toast but there is no way I can use those files in Compressor again (that I know about).

What exactly did you mean by burn it from a disk image?

I can do that in Toast but I don't know how to do it with Compressor.

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Russ H

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Jan 21, 2013 12:02 PM in response to Ian R. Brown

To your multi-disk objective: If you save your Compressor project file and don't move the output files you should be able to reopen it later; if you resubmit, it should skip the encoding all the way to the burn job action.

Test it with a short section of a movie, canceling the burn. Close Compressor and then re-launch. Re-open the project and re-submit to verify that it works as expected.

Good luck.

Russ

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Russ H

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Jan 21, 2013 1:59 PM in response to Ian R. Brown

Ian

Also, try making a disk image the same as you would in FCP (Output Device >Hard Drive, which is in the Job Action dialogue). It may not say AVCHD disk in the Compressor Inspector but I believe if you burn a red laser disk, it should play in your Blu-Ray player; all the right folders seem to be inside. Unfortunately, I'm not in a position to verify this at the moment.

Good luck,

Russ

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