andythefilmer
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I am sure this is covered somewhere, but I had no luck finding it. I have a 70 min graduation video I did, and I need to distribute the DVD's very soon. I just purchased Final Cut Studio 2 as an upgrade from Final Cut Express so I am pretty familiar with the Final Cut application itself, but compressor is very confusing to me. I edited the video before I got FCS and FCE doesn't have multicam capabilities, so I used someone else's Premiere Pro trial to cut it because it has multicam. So I have the .mov file and it is about 15.5 GB. Adobe Encore doesn't work in trial mode, so I just decided to put the .mov file in a final cut timeline and then try to create a DVD in DVD Studio Pro. I used to use iDVD, so I am not used to having to only use assets in .m2v. I only found one tutorial online about MPEG-2, but it was extremely outdated, from 2001 when FCP had a direct MPEG-2 export feature. I did File>Export>Export Using Compressor, then it opened up Compressor. I went to the formats tab and selected MPEG-2 DVD for up to 90 min. of video. I dragged that in to the timeline at the top. Where do I go from there? I am not even completely sure what compressor is designed to do. I want to burn a master copy by next week and then duplicate it. Thanks