Sharing to Disc or Creating a Disk Image
You can burn your project to a standard-definition DVD or a to Blu-ray-compatible disc.
There are two ways to create a Blu-ray-compatible disc:
• Use an external optical drive that supports Blu-ray Disc burning to blue laser media.
• Use a standard DVD burner and standard red laser media to create an AVCHD disc with
HD video content and menus. You can play AVCHD discs in Blu-ray players if they are
compatible with AVCHD discs.
You can also create a disk image (.img) file that you can copy to an external drive. You
can take the disk image to a disc replication facility or burn it to DVD or Blu-ray Disc media
at a later time using Disk Utility.
Markers are added to the file on disc at 30-second intervals, making it it possible to use
the DVD or Blu-ray player’s remote to skip forward or backward 30 seconds each time
the Next Chapter or Previous Chapter buttons are pressed. Each disc format has a
maximum allowable number of disc markers:
• Standard DVD: 99
• Standard Blu-ray: 999
• AVCHD: 50
Note: If Compressor is installed on your computer, you can use the Send to Compressor
option to open the project in Compressor, where you can add and name chapter markers
using the Preview window. For more information, see Compressor Help.
To burn a standard-definition DVD or create a standard-definition disk image file
1
Choose Share > DVD.
2
Choose a destination from the “Output device” pop-up menu.
The menu displays your system’s suitable output devices, including available optical
drives and the computer’s hard disk. To burn a disc, choose an optical drive. To create a
disk image (.img) file that you can copy to an external drive or burn to DVD media later,
choose Hard Drive.
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From the Layers pop-up menu, choose whether to burn a single-layer or dual-layer disc.
Important:
Selecting “Dual-layer” when using a single-layer disc can result in an error
during burning, depending on the project’s length.
4
Choose an available template from the “Disc template” pop-up menu.
5
Enter the name of the disc in the Title field.
By default, the name of the disc is the project name.
6
To specify the DVD player’s action when the disc is inserted, choose an item from the
“When disc loads” pop-up menu.
Choose Show Menu to have a main menu appear. Choose Play Movie to begin playing
the movie immediately.
7
To add a background to DVD menus, click the Add button and choose a graphic
(navigating to where you keep your graphics files on disk).
To choose a different background, click the Clear button, then click Add again.
8
Click Main Menu to see a preview of menus included with the selected template and
background; click Project to see a preview of the movie.
9
To specify additional Motion-specific options, click Render.
For more information about the options available in the Render pane, see
Render Options
for Sharing
.
10
To use background rendering, click Advanced.
For more information about background rendering, see
Background Rendering
.
11
To see details about files to be output, click Summary.
12
In the Options pane, do one of the following:
• If you’re burning to a disc (instead of creating a disk image): Click the eject button at the
right of the Output device pop-up menu, insert a blank disk into your disc-burning
device, then click Burn.
Important:
If you click Burn before inserting a dual-layer destination disc, Motion
assumes it is a single-layer disc, resulting in only half the disc being used, and
poorer-quality video.
• If you’re creating a disk image file: Choose Hard Drive from the Output device pop-up
menu, click Next, enter a name for the file, choose a location, then click Save.
Important:
By default, the Share feature assumes single-layer media for disk images
and adjusts the bit rate accordingly.
To monitor the render progress, use Share Monitor. For more information, see
About
Share Monitor
.
To burn a Blu-ray or AVCHD disc, or to create a disk image Blu-ray file
1
Choose Share > Blu-ray.
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In the window that appears, choose a file destination from the “Output device” pop-up
menu.
The pop-up menu displays your system’s suitable output devices, including optical drives
and the computer’s hard disk. Each device is identified by the type of output it supports
(Blu-ray or AVCHD).
To create a disk image (.img) file that you can copy to an external drive or burn to Blu-ray
media later, choose Hard Drive.
3
From the Layers pop-up menu, choose whether to burn a single-layer or dual-layer disc.
Important:
Selecting “Dual-layer” when using a single-layer disc can result in an error
while burning the disc, depending on the project’s length.
4
Choose a template from the “Disc template” pop-up menu.
5
Enter the name of the disc in the Title field.
By default, the name of the disc is the project name.
6
To specify the Blu-ray player’s action when the disc is inserted, choose an item from the
“When disc loads” pop-up menu.
Choose Show Menu to have the main menu appear. Choose Play Movie to begin playing
the movie immediately.
7
To add a Loop Movie button to the menu, select “Include loop movie button.”
Note: This option is not available for all disc templates.
8
Click Main Menu to see a preview of menus included with the selected template; click
Project to see a preview of the movie.
9
To add a background, logo, or title to menus, click the Add button and choose a graphic
(navigating to where you keep your graphics files on disk).
To choose a different background, click the Clear button, then click Add again.
10
To specify additional Motion-specific options, click Render.
For more information about the options available in the Render pane, see
Render Options
for Sharing
.
11
To use background rendering, click Advanced.
For more information about background rendering, see
Background Rendering
.
12
To see details about files to be output, click Summary.
13
In the Options pane, do one of the following:
• If you’re burning to a disc (instead of creating a disk image): Click the eject button at the
right of the Output device pop-up menu, insert a blank disk into your disc-burning
device, then click Burn.
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Important:
If you click Burn before inserting a dual-layer destination disc, Motion
assumes it is a single-layer disc, resulting in only half the disc being used, and
poorer-quality video.
• If you’re creating a disk image file: Choose Hard Drive (Blu-ray) from the Output device
pop-up menu, click Next, enter a name for the file, choose a location, then click Save.
Important:
By default, the Share feature assumes single-layer media for disk images
and adjusts the bit rate accordingly.
To monitor the render progress, use Share Monitor. For more information, see
About
Share Monitor
.
Note: Blu-ray and AVCHD menus are best suited for displays set to show 1080 lines of
vertical resolution.