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Creating a group and destination – Apple Compressor 2 User Manual

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Chapter 9

Creating MPEG-1 Output Files

Step 3:

Configure the Audio settings

1

Click the Audio button in the MPEG-1 Encoder pane to open the Audio tab.

2

Select the Enabled box.

3

Choose 48 kHz from the “Sample rate” pop-up menu.

4

Select Stereo when using two-channel audio sources, or Mono when using one-
channel audio sources.

5

Choose the bit rate to use from the “Bit rate” pop-up menu.

The typical values used for DVD projects are 192 Kbps and 224 Kbps.

6

Select a different setting in the Setting tab of the Presets window.

This opens a dialog prompting you to save the current preset.

7

Select the Save button and click OK.

This saves the “MPEG-1 Audio for DVD” preset.

Creating a Group and Destination

To make it easy to use these two MPEG-1 presets with a source, you can create a preset
group using them. See “

Creating Groups of Settings

” on page 75 for more information.

Also, to make it easier to use the output files created by these presets in
DVD Studio Pro, create a destination that ensures the video and audio output files have
the same name, only with different file extensions. See “

Creating Destinations for Use

With DVD Studio Pro

” on page 232 for more information.

Select to enable the

Audio tab.

Choose the 48 kHz
sample rate.

Select either

Stereo or Mono.

Choose the bit rate.