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

Greetings,

I am getting the same error after the update, before the update it worked fine but after the update it stopped working. I have tried on two different macs same problem. I went as far as wiping one mac, restoring it and reloading everything. I created a new project, imported the file from the camera, footage that I shot, edited the project and no luck. I can burn it from FCX onto dvd but no luck with the blue ray.

The problem is clearly with the update and has to be addressed as quickly as possible.

Thanks,

Carter

Greetings,

I am getting the same error after the update, before the update it worked fine but after the update it stopped working. I have tried on two different macs same problem. I went as far as wiping one mac, restoring it and reloading everything. I created a new project, imported the file from the camera, footage that I shot, edited the project and no luck. I can burn it from FCX onto dvd but no luck with the blue ray.

The problem is clearly with the update and has to be addressed as quickly as possible.

Thanks,

Carter

Just got my new MacBook Pro Retina about a week ago, edited a 70min graduation project in iMovie, then decided to purchase & install FCPX (and all updates) and was pleased to find FCPX can import iMovie projects, finished the project in FCPX and successfully shared a ProRes 422 Master File, 1080p Apple device file, but could not successfully burn the 70min project to BD or a hardrive image without encountering the dreaded error message thrown by Create Disc.

FYI the project is a mix of 1920x1080 60p AVCHD, 1440x1080 59.94p AVCHD, 1920x800 23.98p MP4 plus a few JPG stills and a few titles and about a dozen Chapter Markers with project settings set to 1920x1080 @29.97p.

Using techniques borrowed from my days as an ACSR, I marked an In & Out of the first half of the project and successfully shared it to a BD image. Next I marked an In & Out of the second half and tried to share to BD image and got the error, so I thought OK the problem is somewhere in the second half of the project. So I marked an In & Out of the first half of the suspected second half, and successfully shared it to a BD image. So the problem must be in the last half of the second half, right? Nope, it successfully shared to a BD image as well.

Further tests showed that I could share the same half of the project that originally failed, and sometimes it would successfully share, while other times it would not, but I could -never- successfully get all 70mins of the project to share to BD image no matter how many times I tried, which was probably around 6-times. I even tried deleting all markers from the project and sharing, but it made no difference... failed.

So I purchased & installed Compressor which unfortunately exhibited exactly the same error, but clearly demonstrated to me that the bottleneck is not happening in Compressor's protranscoder, but consistently happening only after Create Disc is called (we never see the Create Disc icon spin the blue rings).

In each test, whether using FCPX share or Compressor, the video .264 & audio .ac3 files are always successfully created and will play perfectly. Again, for whatever the reason, Create Disc seems to take issue with something (possibly the FCPX XML if it uses it?) and refuses to even write the various BD folders & files it normally does when successfully building a BD compliant directory just prior to archiving them to the final BD image for HDD.

My other tests seem to suggest Create Disc has no problem with short projects (say 30mins or less) but all bets are off with projects of 45mins or longer (YMMV)... so reports of some never having experienced this error and successfully exporting a BD or BD image of only a few minutes length doesn't surprise me.

I also installed & tested trial versions of DVD Fab & Leowo BluRay Create and both successfully created BD images from the FCPX 422 ProRes Master MOV (full 70mins w/DVD Fab & a limited 5-mins demo for Leowo) so that suggests to me the Master file is good. Unfortunately neither has good menu authoring nor do they support FCPX's Chapter Markers, which suggests neither uses FCPX's XML data either, and makes me wonder if Create Disc reads & uses FCPX XML and maybe that's where the problem lies, I dunno.

So if as many if you have reported the previous version of Compressor works and the updated one consistently doesn't, this certainly sounds like an excellent place for Apple to begin their investigation. Let me copy & paste this into a Feedback Report in the hopes that something I've "shared" here might be of some use.

There is some other factor involved aside from length. I have disc images hour 15 and hour 57 projects with no failure.

You burn a 15 hrs.-Blu-ray-Disk-Image and a 57-Hrs.-Blu-ray-Disk-Image with FCPX 10.1.2 ????

For what? Fur fun? The 57-hrs.-quality may be to bad.

Yes, short clips have no problems to be burned as a BR-Image.

No, disk images that are one hour and 15 minutes and one hour and 57 minutes. Sorry for the broadcast slang.

@t1K: Yes, we confirmed this in some of our tests. FCPX uses Compressor to export, but when you purchase the Compressor app, it gives you the program itself to have a little more control over your authorizing. We use Compressor mainly because we make master files (for backup) and there is a different export to de-interlace video which is required for authoring. More on this here: http://www.larryjordan.biz/compressor4-deinterlace-video/

Current Update y we are still in contact with Apple and are uploading a 100+ GB file to their servers. Their teams are going to analyze the problem in-depth, from what we can understand. Uploading is taking a couple days. As I have stated before, I will keep you all informed if anything does come through.

Again I stress, Compressor 3.5.3 works for a current BR disc burning workaround. We tried to transfer this version to our new Mac's that didn't have FCP7 installed, but it did not run. Seems that you have to have the whole package installed.

I should add in the beginning I also tried deleting & re-rendering all clips but both FCPX & Compressor still failed to share to BD / BD image. Then I tried optimizing all events to ProRes 422 and sharing, nope still no luck with either.

Since the ProRes 422 Master MOV played perfectly in QT & MPlayer including all Chapter Markers and their thumbnails, I created a new project and imported the Master MOV back into FCPX and dropped it onto a blank timeline (no markers), but when I tried to share that out of FCPX to BD / BD image, Create Disc would still error out... 'Either the video file or audio were not in a valid format'.

Aa a side note if I Google the error message, one of the results takes me to a similar trouble report posted at Matrox awhile back.

@all with this BR problem

do you have the old fcp(7 or older)/studio on your System before upgrading to fcpx?

Misery loves company.  Thanks for all the advice and suggestions.  Form the discussion, I am having the "classic" problem trying to burn a blu-ray using "Share" in FCP X 10.1.2 -  Invalid file message when the progress bar says 66% complete.  Here is what I have tried:

1. Proposed solution: Delete the Blu-ray menu photo.  I had a photo and deleted it.  - Solution did not work

2. Share in FCPX to a master file - Apple ProRes 422 (Proxy) to produce a quick time video.  Then use compressor to create a H.264 video and Dolby audio ac3 file using compressor 3.5.3.  My intention was to take these files and burn them to blu-ray using Toast.  Compressor somehow invoked the dreaded Create Disk program which then resulted in the same error message.  In any event, I took the resulting H264 video and ac3 files and tried to load them into Toast to burn the blu-ray.  Toast did not recognize the two files as paired.  Further the files were loaded in as disassociated files (not as matching audio and video even though the files had related names when output from Compressor).  Interestingly, the H.264 was exactly double the length (1 hr and 15 minutes) of my quick time master file (37 minutes and 52 seconds).  Further, I was not able to oven the H.264 video file in vlc.  Based on this, I think the video file being produced by compressor is the invalid file.  To make the H.264 file, I used the standard settings in Compressor for the Blu-ray disk suggested by the blu-ray template.

3.  I have now taken the master file and loaded it directly into Toast to burn the blu-ray.  I will let Toast convert it into the blu-ray files.  Not sure how the quality will be but I am keeping my fingers crossed.

I have sent feedback to apple and hopefully they will have a fix soon but looking forward to hearing about any other workarounds or suggestions in the meantime.

Bought the Pioneer BDR-XD05W about a week ago (after this topic was already rolling) and got around to trying it out last night with a 31 min project that has 3 camera angles, one of which is from 4K.  The project burned from FCPX 10.1.2 (with 10.9.4) Share to BluRay, and without Compressor without problem.  The burn took about 90 minutes more or less, as I did not monitor it directly so some lost time when it asked for the disc to be inserted.

The only issue I had at all was getting the burner to be recognized by my new Mac Pro -- turned out I had to connect it with the USB2 port on the TBolt display, as the USB3 on the nMP seems not to provide power (need to research this).  Checked the recognition on my rMBP, which was fine, before punting to the port on the TBolt where I have been using my USB Superdrive previously.

So I am of no help as to why it is not working for some.

Ernie

Hi Ernie,

If you have time would you be willing to double the project length with a copy and paste and see if you can make a Blu-ray disk image? Don't have to burn a disc.

THanks.

OK if I use a different Project that is one hour plus -- I have one that I was thinking of burning to BluRay now that I have the burner?

Ernie

Should I avoid any that I have ever burned to DVD, however?  The project that I burned (31 mins) had been Shared to Vimeo, btw.

Ernie