Apple Compressor (4.0) - Manual (Page 190)

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You choose whether to burn a Blu-ray disc or an AVCHD disc using the Output Device pop-up
menu. The setting descriptions below identify which items do not apply to AVCHD discs.
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Output Device pop-up menu: Choose the device to format to. The pop-up menu displays a list
of your system’s suitable output devices, including optical drives and the computer’s hard disk.
Each device also includes the words “Blu-ray” or “AVCHD” to indicate which type of disc it creates.
Choose Hard Drive to create a disk image (.img) file that you can burn to Blu-ray disc media at
a later time using the Disk Utility application (available in the Utilities folder). If you choose a
standard DVD burner, the disc is formatted as an AVCHD disc. All other devices format the disc as
a Blu-ray disc. Other settings may change depending on the device you choose.
Important: If a progress indicator appears next to the output device you selected, wait a
moment for the list of available devices to update. This can happen when you eject or insert a
disc or when you turn an optical drive on or off.
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Eject button: Depending on your optical media drive type, click this button to eject optical
media from the drive or open the drive’s media tray.
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Layers pop-up menu: Choose the type of disc you’re making:
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Automatic: Tells Compressor to automatically detect the type of disc you insert. For
Automatic 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.
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Single-layer: Tells Compressor to identify the disc as a single-layer disc. You can use this to
force a dual-layer disc to be treated as a single-layer disc.
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Dual-layer: Tells Compressor to identify the disc as a dual-layer disc. You can use this 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.
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Disc Template pop-up menu: Choose a menu template for the Blu-ray disc.
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Title field: Enter a name for the program on the Blu-ray disc.
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When Disc Loads pop-up menu: Choose what happens when the disc loads in the player:
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Show Menu: Shows the menu.
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Play Movie: Plays the movie.