Not Serialized
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I have a 1:52 video to fit onto a 4.7 Gb disk. Easy enough in older versions of DVDS and FCP, just encode at a lower rate--3.5 will do the job.
In FCP I am unable to encode the MPEG, it says DVDS needs to be serialized. It offers no menu or anything to do except to OK past that warning, which of course shuts down the attempt to render. Not that I have any further serial number to enter, other than the one I got when I bought the 5.0 upgrade (and its 4.0 number), but I can't find any place I can enter a serial number.
In DVDS, which opens and builds my DVD authoring just fine, it reports the disk size will be 4.8 Gb, obviously too large. No matter what I do to the preferences settings, that number will not change.
Quite frankly, using Compressor scares the **** out of me. The last time I tried to use it to process a similar length video, it took three days, and ultimately failed. In the process it ruined the hard drive it was rendering to. I solved that previous project by going back to an OS9 computer and processing the MPEG and AC3 files there using DVDS 1.5. You'd think after several years that I should be able to process a long form video on the more recent software.
I have a 1:52 video to fit onto a 4.7 Gb disk. Easy enough in older versions of DVDS and FCP, just encode at a lower rate--3.5 will do the job.
In FCP I am unable to encode the MPEG, it says DVDS needs to be serialized. It offers no menu or anything to do except to OK past that warning, which of course shuts down the attempt to render. Not that I have any further serial number to enter, other than the one I got when I bought the 5.0 upgrade (and its 4.0 number), but I can't find any place I can enter a serial number.
In DVDS, which opens and builds my DVD authoring just fine, it reports the disk size will be 4.8 Gb, obviously too large. No matter what I do to the preferences settings, that number will not change.
Quite frankly, using Compressor scares the **** out of me. The last time I tried to use it to process a similar length video, it took three days, and ultimately failed. In the process it ruined the hard drive it was rendering to. I solved that previous project by going back to an OS9 computer and processing the MPEG and AC3 files there using DVDS 1.5. You'd think after several years that I should be able to process a long form video on the more recent software.
G4 Titanium Laptop, Mac OS X (10.4.7)
