Subtitles of the Movie

Now, so far we've exported our sequence into a full-quality QuickTime movie using export QuickTime movie. Don't believe me? Again, look where we put it. There it is; CycloCrossfinish.mov and it's a rather large file; 185 megabytes and it is a 720 by 480; in other words, using the current NTSC settings that we use for this sequence. Take that and use it in an application like iMovie and create a DVD using just that QuickTime file. That's enough to create a DVD. But there's another application that's in the Studio suite of applications, the Studio Pro suite of applications, that is specially formulated or specially designed to create the files that are needed to make a DVD and that is compressor. So if you go to the file menu and export, using compressor this time we'll launch a separate application which will take our, now remember, what are we doing here with our clips and with our sequences? We're just referencing original source material. So what compressor does is it gathers up all the stuff we have, all of the video tracks, all of the audio tracks, it looks a those reference files and it takes all those and it extracts or creates the files that are necessary specially for creating a DVD. Otherwise, an application like iDVD will take that QuickTime movie and break it into and process it into the files needed to create the DVD and those files, as you'll see in a moment, will be two. So again, file, export and we'll use compressor. Now, you don't have to export your entire sequence. If you just have the sequence selected, if you just have it up in the timeline and do this procedure, it will extract or export the entire thing. You could, if you wanted to, set in and out points and that's in fact what I'll go ahead and do just to save a little bit of time. So export, and using compressor, get that little warning at this resolution and now you get a window that looks like this. Now, you're going to see more of this window than I do, but this is what compressor does and you can be, there's kind of an easy way and a very complex way to explain and use this product, this application and since this is focused on Final Cut, I'll just use the very easy way and I think I've already done that. This creates the necessary files that DVD Studio Pro will need to create a DVD. Now, you can do this by just dragging and dropping both the settings and the destinations here in this big old section. So what do we do? First I always like to decide on the destination and you can create new destinations from here or you can send it to the current source location, to the desktop and that's exactly what I'll do. I'll drag it to the desktop. Now, could you put it on two locations at once? You absolutely could. And that's one of the advantages of compressor. It's a very flexible tool at creating just the files that are necessary for a specific objective. But I'll go ahead and remove that and make that go away. You could also create custom destinations of course So we've got a destination selected. Now we've get settings to worry about and again, in these folders of settings, we have four different subgroups. We have Apple devices, so here's yet another way to create a project for iPod video, iPhones, at different resolutions for Apple TV. So we'll export this for iPhone and create that project right there. DVD, though, is really the focus of this movie, this module and there's several selections in the DVD grouping and you can see now there are two settings for each of these; DVD quality 120, 150, 90, best quality, fastest encode and you can continue scrolling down the list for other settings such as HDDVD. Now, again, my window settings here don't let me show you the entire application, but you'll be able to better see this at your resolution. Now what you can do is select your DVD settings. Now, these are just guidelines so if your sequence is five minutes long or five seconds long, you probably want to use DVD best quality. Fastest encode will let you create the DVD faster, but generally I select best quality and then just if I've got an hour long movie, I need 90 minutes. If I've got an hour and a half or hour or 95 minutes, I generally select this one and you don't even really need to worry about these different file types that are created. All that you really need to know is that that's your audio, the file that's created for DVD Studio Pro. That is the necessary video information that's needed. So you don't have to drag these individually either. All you have to do, and I don't want to move this. That's fine. Didn't mean to do that anyway. All you have to do is drag and drop and again, I'm having a little trouble with this resolution. Just drag the folder itself. So DVD best quality 90 minutes, that's the easy way to use this thing and now the necessary files will be created automatically. You also have the ability to change your mind about the destination location and the settings used. Notice here that I have selected a destination but I don't have any settings selected. So I can go back here and we'll just select this one and drop it right into the settings placeholder for this thing. So now this file will be created by compressor on the desktop for this sequence and it tells you the file that will be created if you hover the mouse. And this also lets me change my mind about items and if I control click, I can change the destination to the desktop. So we'll send both of these files right to the desktop and when I'm ready, all I have to do is click on submit. Now I give the sequence a name. I'll just create it on this computer and when I'm finished, click on submit. Now the job will be batched and as you can see here that you can even quit compressor and the job will continue to run until those files that are necessary to create your DVD have been made.