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Apple Compressor (4.0) User Manual

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Chapter 7

Advanced functions

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Layers pop-up menu: Choose the type of disc you’re making:

Automatic: Tells Compressor to automatically detect the type of disc you insert. For this
setting to work, you must insert the disc before clicking Burn. Additionally, Automatic always
creates a single-layer disk image when Hard Drive is selected as the output device.

Single-layer: Tells Compressor to identify the disc as a single-layer disc. You can use this
setting to force a dual-layer disc to be treated as a single-layer disc.

Dual-layer: Tells Compressor to identify the disc as a dual-layer disc. You can use this setting
to force the disk image to be formatted for a dual-layer disc when you choose Hard Drive as
your output device. Choosing Dual-layer when using a single-layer disc may result in an error
while burning the disc, depending on the project’s length.

Disc Template pop-up menu: Choose a menu template for the DVD.

Title field: Enter a name for the program on the DVD.

When Disc Loads pop-up menu: Choose what happens when the disc loads in the player:

Show Menu: Shows the menu.

Play Movie: Plays the movie.

Use Chapter Marker Text as Subtitles checkbox: Select this checkbox to have marker text appear
as subtitles. This setting is particularly useful for creating DVD dailies, because it lets you line
up a series of clips or scenes and identify each item with a marker text subtitle.

Background button: Opens a dialog to locate and select a still image for the menu’s background.

Main Menu and Chapter Menu buttons: Click the Main Menu and Chapter Menu buttons to
display previews of the menus included with the selected template.

Create Blu-ray Disc
Use this form to enter information and settings for the Blu-ray disc you want to burn.
Additionally, you can burn an AVCHD disc based on settings in this form.

An AVCHD disc can be thought of as a simpler high-definition (HD) disc that is burned to red
laser media. The resulting disc plays in Blu-ray Disc players that are compatible with the AVCHD
format. This means you can burn a disc that contains HD video content and some basic menu
features using a standard DVD burner, and play that disc in compatible Blu-ray Disc players. For
information about creating H.264 streams suitable for Blu-ray discs and AVCHD discs, see

Create

Blu-ray discs

on page 70.

Important:

You cannot play any disc containing Blu-ray content on a Mac computer.