

This applies two compression settings and a job action to burn the actual disc itself:


To apply a Destination, drag the “Create DVD” destination on top of the job. The benefit of Destinations is that they compress and burn a single movie to a disc with one setting. A Destination combines both a compression setting and a job action that does something with the file once compression is complete. In this screen shot, the Create DVD destination is highlighted. If you are authoring a disc to contain multiple movies, menus, scripts, stories in either DVD Studio Pro or Adobe Encore, then you need to compress your media in Compressor.Ī new feature in Compressor 4.1 is Destinations.If you are burning a single movie to a disc, you can do that in either Final Cut Pro X or Compressor.If you are using iDVD to burn movies to a disc, you don’t need to compress them in Compressor.WHEN SHOULD YOU COMPRESS FILES FOR A DVD? (The HD-DVD format listed in DVD Studio Pro is a dead format that can only be played on a Macintosh, and nothing else.) If you need to burn HD media onto an optical disc, you need to create a Blu-ray, or AVCHD Disc. Compressing HD media for a DVD always converts it to standard-def. NOTE: DVDs are always and only standard-definition video. This article explains what you need to know using both Compressor 4.1 and Compressor 4.0. I’ve covered this a lot in my video training, but haven’t written about this for several years.
TOAST DVD COMPRESSION HOW TO
One of the most common compression questions I get is how to compress files for a DVD.
