How do I burn a dvd from FCP Pro X onto a USB Superdrive- It takes the video/audio ts files- can not play dvd. Can some-one advise me? I have a MacBook Pro without a dvd drive and need to produce a dvd for production. Thank you
iMac, OS X Yosemite (10.10.1), Mac Book Pro, IPad, IPhone
IIf you share to DVD from FCP you should have the option to select the connected drive. Is that not working for you?
I can not see the drive as an option- even had a look at Finder preferences to make sure the correct blocks are ticked.
Go into System Information and see if the DVD burner appears on the USB bus. In FCP it should appear in the popup at the top of the share settings.
Got it! It is an option with Harddrive! Will test and let you know. Many thanks
Please follow Tom's advice to make sure whether or not your system is seeing the superdrive.
What exactly do you see when you do File->Share->DVD?
Under settings, the first choice is Output Device. What are your options there? You should see "Hard Drive" and the name of your superdrive. Do you see only the hard drive option?
It worth noting that it is usually a better choice to "burn" your DVD to the hard drive, anyway. This creates a disc image, which you can double-click on to have a virtual dvd. You can use it with DVD Player and check that it is ok; furthermore, you can then go and burn as many copies of this image as you like, using Disk Utility; and you can save it as a backup, too.
I got it! Just on your advice to "burn"- how do I do it?
Annemarie Reitsma wrote:
I got it! Just on your advice to "burn"- how do I do it?
Easy.
Once you export to hard drive, will get an image file, let's call it something.img.
In the Finder, control-click something.img, choose Open With->Disk Utility.
It will appear on the left. Select it and click Burn.
(In the screenshot I show below, the Burn button is greyed out simply because I don't have a superdrive connected to my mac at the moment)
how to burn dvd on USB Super Drive from FCP X
