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Building a DVD

Building a DVD - Compressor Tutorial

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Building a DVD

Even though most of our Apple devices no longer ship with a DVD burner, burning a DVD is still a valuable skill. Without DVD Studio Pro, which was discontinued, it's important to know that Compressor can actually do that work for us. I'm going to go ahead, I've already loaded in a video file, I'm going to take the job called Create DVD, I'm going to just drag and drop, to apply. And you can see up in the top right it says Create DVD when it's done this compression batch. I'm going to go ahead and select the Job up top, so the inspector shows the Job allowing me to do one customization that I think is just really important for building optical disks. Optical disks are set to build for an output device. I'm going to choose here, instead of it actually building it on this laptop which has a DVD burner, I'm going to tell it to build to the Hard Drive. And the reason that you probably want to do this, is this is going to keep you from having to accidentally make coasters. If you've been…

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