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Blu-ray and Final Cut Studio

Creating a Blu-ray Disc with Compressor

With the addition of batch templates in Compressor 3.5, it is now possible to easily create and burn a simple Blu-ray disc (or a standard DVD) right from Compressor.  You’ll find Apple-designed HD templates that you can use for your disc. In order to start the process of creating a Blu-ray disc, you need to configure Compressor to process an HD video file and then create the disc.  To do this you’ll use a batch template to simplify and accelerate your workflow.

1. Launch Compressor by double-clicking its icon in the Applications folder or clicking its icon in the Dock. Compressor opens with the Batch Template Chooser visible and an empty placeholder batch. If you’ve chosen to hide it on launch or already have Compressor open, simply choose File > New Batch From Template.

2. Click the Create Blu-ray option in the Batch Template Chooser to select it.


 This template will create BD H.264 video and Dolby Digital Professional (.ac3) audio files.  Compressor will then automatically burn them to a Blu-ray disc or an AVCHD disc.

3. Click Choose.


 Compressor applies a target to the placeholder job using the correct settings for a Blu-ray disc.

4. Locate a self-contained movie that you want to use and drag the file from the Finder to the placeholder job in the Batch window.

Customizing the Blu-ray Menu

While the Batch Template method is not a complete authoring solution (like DVD Studio Pro), it does allow for menu customization. You can choose from different menu templates and even swap graphic elements to customize a menu’s appearance.

1. Click the Inspector button to open the Inspector window.

2. Click the Job Action tab to customize the Blu-ray disc.

3. Click the Disc Template pop-up menu to access the installed menu templates. Compressor uses an open XML-based template format for its menus.  This means that you can import third-party templates as they become available or even learn how to create your own here.

4. Compressor also offers four options for customizing the menu:

Title: Enter a title for the menu In the title field.

Background: You can select a background graphic for the menu.

Logo Graphic: You can place a logo graphic in the upper right corner of the menu.  Supported file types include PSD and PNG files with transparent backgrounds.

Title Graphic: You can select a graphic to rest in the middle of the DVD menu as a thumbnail.  This is a useful way to preview the image.

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